Hiking to Millers Head Point, Dark Hollow Falls, and sunset in Big Meadows

October 20, 2016 by Joel Housman

The view along Millers Head trail looking out over the Shenandoah Valley.

The view from Miller's Head observation post at the end of the ridge. The view is looking south-south east down the Shenandoah Valley.

An old dead hemlock tree along the trail down to Dark Hollow Falls.

Dusk at Big Meadows, looking south at the ridge I took the sunset photo from earlier.

And then I tried something I've never done before and held my iPhone 7's camera up to the viewfinder of my telescope. Here's the moon.

Today's Sunset Was a Good One

January 01, 2016 by Joel Housman

Today was one of those days in which I caught a glimpse of colors in the clouds just before sunset and deciced to head out to the lake as fast as possible with my camera. Also, I'd like to point out, all of the photos posted on this blog, up until this point, were taken with either my iPhone 6 Plus or iPhone 6S Plus. That this still surprises people when I mention it (and it does) baffles me.

Something I discovered over the holidays from family members who also have new iPhones and exclaim to me, "I just can't take good photos with my iPhone like you can!". Try turning your flash off. So much of the time everyone, especially people who don't understand light with respect to photography, leave their flash on because they think it is needed to make the photos better. Most of the time flash screws up the lighting of your photos and is not necessary. I think the last time I used a flash on the camera was my old Canon Powershot A600 I had in 2006. Turn off your flash. Trust me.

Now, here are the rest of the photos:

Uploaded by Joel Housman on 2015-10-23.

Migrating Geese Leaving Lake Ashby in 4K

October 23, 2015 by Joel Housman

Uploaded by Joel Housman on 2015-10-18.

Sunset at Pinnacles Overlook

October 17, 2015 by Joel Housman

Uploaded by Joel Housman on 2015-10-18.

The View from Stony Man Summit

October 17, 2015 by Joel Housman

Shades of Pink

July 30, 2015 by Joel Housman

Reflections Of Blue Gradients

July 19, 2015 by Joel Housman

Sunset Over Lake Ashby

July 16, 2015 by Joel Housman

I really like how today's photos turned out. Today was near perfect lighting conditions. It wasn't too windy therefore the clouds hung around for a bit and the water was smooth enough to capture nice reflections.

Here is a link to the entire album if you want to see everything. If not, I've embedded some of my best shots in this post.