Breaking through

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” Edward Abbey

A taste of last spring

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.” Bill Vaughn I looked through my archives on this rainy day, and I found this picture from last Spring. I have posted a very similar one then. but there was elements that I were not really pleased with. I did a tone mapping of this image and was pleased to see the darkened shore line come to life, as well as the vibrancy of the sky

This side of tranquility

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe