Jeff Meyers

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Lord Spencer

I know everyone is dying to see a few of the latest shots of the greatest dog in the world. Well, the wait is over.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Yesterday I posted one of the sunset shots I took in Iowa a few days ago. It was a nice, normal and beautiful image of the sun setting behind the clouds. Fine.

But after the sun actually set there was this shaft of sunlight that rose straight up from the horizon. It lasted about 15 minutes. The colors and clouds kept changing but the shaft stayed constant. You can see some of the color changes just in these three shots.

Does anyone know what causes this? The clouds were changing to rapidly to think that it was a break in the clouds somewhere over the horizon. There are no mountains in Iowa (duh), so why this shaft of light? It stayed in the same place, as I said, for 15 minutes.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Iowa Sunset #1

I was out of town speaking at a conference in Pella, Iowa, this weekend, so I wasn't able to post anything.

I have some really awesome sunset shots from my return from Iowa. Well, I think they're awesome anyway. I can never capture sunsets all that well here in St. Louis because of all the hills. It's hard to get a straight horizon. Well, I was driving home from Iowa last night at sundown and was able to pull off the road at a couple of places and capture some good images. There's one problem with these. I was not able to find something interesting for the foreground (silos, a farm house, a barn, etc.). Bummer. But I guess you can't have everything.