One Fine Evening

I’m reading the book Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson for the second time. It seems the first time I read it I didn’t comprehend much of the information provided in the text.

Last evening I was feeling the call of the camera so I decided to put some of the knowledge I gained from reading the book to good use. So at about 7:00 PM I head out to see if I could capture a decent sunset and possibly some night photos.

I’m not thrilled with the sunset photos. Not because of the sky but because other than buildings and trees there isn’t much else to in West Houston to use as the foreground subject in a sunset. Mountains are hard to find in these parts!

Orange Sunset

Purple Sky

The following two images are of a building near our home. I was actually driving back home after capturing the sunset images and saw the sun reflecting off this building. So I pulled into a shopping center parking lot and setup my tripod and camera and snapped these two images all while a rent-a-cop sat in his/her truck and watched me the entire time. It seems these days anyone with camera is suspitious and needs to be monitored.