Nighttime Landscape

In honor of the amazing meteor we saw flying through the sky on Wednesday, the days growing shorter with Winters impending arrival and the assignment I received from the DPS newsletter I get weekly I took my camera out for an extended exposure last night. The sun hadn't set long before this shot, but it was windy, so the exposure was 25 sec at f2.8 with an iso of 25, but I loved the composition with the moon in the crosshairs of the power lines and the tail lights of the plane flying through the sky.  I hope you enjoy this little exercise as well!

Moving West...

Starting out on my road trip (with my Mom) to move to California, the first overnight stop was Pittsburgh, PA.  The image is a view from atop Mt. Washington looking at the Duquesne Incline.  The Duquesne Incline is an inclined plane railroad, scaling Mt. Washington, designed by Samuel Diescher and completed in 1887.

Earth Hour 2010

This past weekend on Saturday March 27th was Earth Hour. An initiative started in Australia where people turn off all their lights for one hour from 8:30 to 9:30 to signify and stand against global warming.

I participated in Earth Hour last year at home and this year I wanted to capture what the great city of New York does. In the photo you can see the not so drastic change from pre-8:30 and post-8:30. The lights did go off in the Empire State Building...but to be honest I was hoping for more...

Maybe in a few more years when the word about Earth Hour spreads a little farther!