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In Search of a Magazine Cover Photo
In Search of a Magazine Cover Photo Back in June I described on my blog a trip I took where I'd focus on vertical day and night landscapes to enter into Outdoor Photographer magazine's Cover Photo contest: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-search-of-magazine-cover-photo.html Well, my new shots from that trip didn't win, but a star trails shot from a couple of weeks earlier in Yosemite National Park did! I hear it'll be the November cover, which should hit newsstands in a few shot weeks. I should have a cover mock-up to show you shortly. It's going to be Outdoor Photographer's best issue EVER! No, I don't know what will be inside yet, but the cover will rock, so they'd better make the rest good! I wonder if they'd consider not putting that big yellow title over my stars... Update 9/12 : Outdoor Photographer magazine has posted a copy of the October issue with an article on star trail photography: http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/sh...
Fantasy. I love old trees...
ReplyDeleteJohan, Good point, but the ark was too small for the millions of species of plants, so there must have been a force field around them. Any science fiction fan can figure that one out! What I can't figure out is why the bible says the sun travels around the earth, which is explained by some people by saying that that can be true from our point of reference, but clearly that point of reference requires the galaxies 14 billion light years away to greatly exceed the speed of light to travel around us every day, which physics (god's rules) apparently does not allow. So if god did inspire the wording of the bible, surely that blatant error of the sun travelling around the earth (and the apparent impossibility of other galaxies doing the same) seems to be a clue not to take the bible too seriously or perhaps not to trust too deeply people who have dramatically changed their interpretation of the source material over the past 2000 years. The Crusades, the widespread burning of women (as "witches") in Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, the sacrificing of animals to appease/please god (Why did he change his mind on that point, shouldn't churches be serving lamb and goat every week?), there's so much I have yet to understand. I sure do find peace though in nature, in "god's creation", whether that's by some miraculous process or the product of my brain's own endorphins and dopamine as I hike out into it carrying a copious quantity of camera gear on my back.
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