See the Rise

This picture is just taken with my iPhone. I guess it's more of a snapshot than an actual photograph. It was taken last Summer in the first place we lived on the island on the Northside above Magen's Bay. We've been on St. Thomas for a year and we still are not quite used to waking up to this everyday. Photo wise I probably could have done a bit better with the composition but in a way I feel it works having the horizon across the center line since the mountainside feeds your eyes towards Magen's. Sunrise's and sunsets are incredibly fun to shoot but are pretty dang difficult to get the lighting to do what you want in your image. With a camera phone the exposure is fairly easy to set; just push your finger around the screen until it's not blown out. I have a few decent shots from my camera that I will be posting in the next week or so. Ideally I would like to post at least once a week. I'll have to see if this ends up being more of a travel/lifestyle blog of my surroundings or if it ends up being more photography specific. Either way, enjoy the sunrise.

Rekindle

Life indeed slips past us all and lofty aspirations fade from bright burning sparks to smoldering charcoal as other priorities are deemed more demanding of our time. It's been nearly two years since I have posted on my photography adventure blog. That's not to say that I have not been on adventures or that I haven't taken any photographs. I started this blog for a final project of my college education and also as a personal hobby. Since that period of time not all that much has changed for me other than the locations that my wife and I have lived in. We have had the privilege of starting our lives in Idaho where we finished school and then worked and lived in San Antonio, Texas; St. Augustine, Florida; and now currently St. Thomas, USVI. I am incredibly grateful for the last two years and the many opportunities I have had and continue to have. I do feel as if I have been missing something through these past two years though. And I do believe that this photography blog may very well play a part in finding that missing piece. This is the place where many of my thoughts about the world around me will go. More often than not in the form of a photograph. Feel free to follow along as I stoke the bellows of my rekindled flame and see how wild this fire can grow.

Stoic Pelican