Patience... Let's go Already!

It is very interesting how God has His way of slowing us down. When we are used to going here and there, doing something every minute of the day... BANG! You get slapped in the side of the head with a nice fever or some other event that makes you stop in your tracks and do nothing except wait it out.

So it turns out I most likely had the H1N1 virus, my daughter called and asked if I had grown a curly tail. I may have but it must have fallen off by now. I am feeling much better bat am still home as I understand I can still be contagious for seven days. Fun it is not!

Ok. So on with some photo-seriousness here. Photography is all about patience also, rarely do you walk up to a scene and snap a great shot. You must observe, survey, frame correctly and then if all the stars, well ok, the sun lines up just right you are blessed with a great moment captured in virtual space. At some point it will make it to a tangible print. Such was the case with the image of the red barn below.

This barn is only about two and a half miles from our house here in Michigan and we drive past it probably two or three times a week. It was fall 08' when the leaves were already off the trees that I got a glimpse of what I wanted out of this red barn. But I also knew there was going to be a chance in 2009 that I would not get "the shot" either.

You can not see the tree but you can see the large shadow just to the left of the barn. Well... that is what I had to be patient about. There were some branches on that tree that threw a shadow on the barn that just would not work in Doug' Red Barn. I was going to have to wait until later in the year when the trees had changed color, the sun had moved far enough south so as not to cast the shadow on the barn and in this instant the sky in West Michigan was a pristine blue.

I was down in the office and looked outside to see the sun casting long shadows to the East. I knew my moment was at hand. I ran upstairs (I really walked), grabbed my gear bag, and rushed off in the truck to see if my precious red bard was ready to display it's beauty. Yes it was but there were circumstances which I am not going to go into at this time as I don't want to ruin the art of the image. Suffice it to say the clone stamp tool is Doug's friend. But then it is art... My art!

Enjoy... Doug