The Life in My Years

This week, Siobhan, author of the site Bend Branches hosts the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, and she has chosen the topic, glowing moments.

With the exception of three photos, the first and the last two, all of the images for this challenge were taken just before or after sunrise, when the glow is particularly spectacular and the opportunites are fleeting.

The photo below of a bridge over the Fox River in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was taken after sunset. I took this photo in September when (American) football is getting into full swing. The bridge, just like everything else in Green Bay during autumn, is illuminated in the team colors of the Green Bay Packers football team.

Pescadero is located on the Central California Coast, about an hour’s drive (depending of course on traffic) from my home. Here, there is a large wetland where Pescadero Creek drains into the Pacific Ocean. The photo below is of the wetland carpeted with brilliant Pickleweed.

The photo below was taken on my front porch. After a night of rain, drops glow and glisten in the morning sunlight. One dangling drop reflects a brick pillar.

The photos below were taken in Quebec City. While my wife, Cora, slept in, I took a walk, starting just before sunrise when everything took on the yellow-orange hue of dawn.

 

A photographer’s delight is that rare and fleeting fleeting atmospheric phenomenon called alpenglow. The photos below were taken in Athens, Wisconsin, after a rainstorm, just as the sun was setting.

To view Siobhan’s glowing moments, please visit her site Bend Branches.