New Year Sunset

The great thing about winter is interesting skies and deciduous trees. That’s kind of two things, but when you put them together the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. What is the sum of sky and tree? Behold!

The camera used here isn’t sophisticated. Just a simple digital point and shoot with a tiny little sensor. It does at least have enough manual control to throw some mojo into the shot, mainly setting it to underexpose and transform the trees into silhouettes. There was a bit of fiddling with ISO and shutter speed to try balancing image noise with shutter speed.

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Mike is a licensed landscape architect. He's also an artist, photographer and occasional chef. Luciole Design specializes in sustainable, contemporary, modern landscape design - and traditional landscape styles that fit into California's Mediterranean climate. Sacramento, California.