Ron Layters

sunset from my garden #5

This time of year, depending on what hemisphere you’re in, you can get back from work and throw on some home clothes – whatever you have different to your work clothes. The change of mood is important here. So if you spend the day in a suit, you’ll reach for an old pair of jeans, the cotton around the knees worn smooth like velvet. If your work takes you outside where you spend the day up to your eyeballs in dust, you might swap to something neat and tidy – not a suit, but something less casual, a skirt, or a pair of chinos and a crisp cotton shirt.

When you’ve done all that, you might look to the sky. And some perfect spring days you’ll see something like this. So pull on a sweater and take your camera outside. Line up a cool beer, not too strong because you’ll need to be steady, even if your camera is attached to a tripod. Take a sip of that beer (lemonade will do, or something sweet and hot if there’s a cool breeze). And wait.

Because days like this just get better and better.

Watch the clouds crossing the sky in shapes that change from men on horseback, to elephants to wild deer. You might even see a mouse smoking a pipe. Or is that cloud on the left a witch on a broom?

And when you find the right moment, then take your shot.  Know that you have found the perfect moment and taken the perfect shot. As good as it will get for today.

And go inside, happy.

 

 

 

 

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