We took it easy this morning and it was nice and cool in the RV when we got out of bed. I had my usual breakfast then did some things online. I processed images for a stock submission.

I had lunch around 12:30 and read the rest of the July 2010 Outdoor Photographer. Then I processed more images for a stock submission. There was a short rain shower around 2:30 and it rained heavily around 4:00. I did some computer work before fixing dinner.

We had dinner at 5:50 of Bertolli Italian Sausage & Rigatoni and leftover garlic breadsticks.

We left in the Jeep around 6:25 and ...

Went to Bellaire Lake. We walked around the small lake to scout photographic possibilities, then we got out our camera gear. J photographed Blue Columbine near the parking lot and I photographed Fireweed (below left) along the lake. My composition was inspired by an image J made when we were near Crested Butte. Then we photographed the clouds over the lake as they lit up around sunset (below right). I would have liked to have had a rock or two in the foreground in the lower right to have something other than a basic reflection, but there weren't any available without wading out into the lake to get on the other side of some trees right at the shore. I used a two-stop graduated neutral density (ND) filter and aligned the soft transition with the far shore to balance the exposure between the bright sky and the reflection.


We returned to the RV around 8:35. After downloading the images I took, I downselected them in Capture One (C1).