One Of The Locals (Page 2): That shot is almost magical..

dbrugger25 Loc: Raleigh, NC

Cany143 wrote:

Down along the road.

That shot is almost magical..

rodolini

Beautiful!

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great job, Jim.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Cany143 wrote:

Down along the road.

Nicely done Jim. Must have taken quite some time.

Michael1079 Loc: Indiana

joecichjr wrote:

Whatever you did here, it is sure magnificent 🤎🥇🏆🥇🤎

What he said! I second that! What an amazing shot!

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

UTMike wrote:

Road to the Enchanted Mountain, Jim?

Well, Mike, if the Atlas Tailings Pile (site of the DOE's UMTRA effort to 'cleanup' Moab's once glorious and towering uranium tailings pile) qualifies as an 'Enchanted Mountain', then yeah, seems accurate enuf. Because this ram (and the two ewes who accompanied him) were feeding 20' off the road --Scenic Byway U-279, a.k.a., 'The Potash Road'-- opposite what remains of that glorious and "enchanted" (despite its whittled-down and now diminished state) 'mountain'. One has only to drive past at night to experience the green sickly glow the (remains of the) 'mountain' emits in order to feel a sense of 'enchantment'.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

frankraney wrote:

Nicely done Jim. Must have taken quite some time.

Took very little time at all, Frank. I shot this shot all of two miles (as the raven flies) from home. Granted, I don't fly like a raven so I opted to drive, which meant having to go two or three times that flightless distance by road, but both of the traffic lights along the way were green and no time was lost.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

dbrugger25 wrote:

That shot is almost magical..

Some might say 'mystical' rather than 'magical' (please see my reply to UTMike), but a rose is a rose is a pile of uranium tailings....

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Cany143 wrote:

Down along the road.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Cany143 wrote:

Took very little time at all, Frank. I shot this shot all of two miles (as the raven flies) from home. Granted, I don't fly like a raven so I opted to drive, which meant having to go two or three times that flightless distance by road, but both of the traffic lights along the way were green and no time was lost.

you sayin this is pretty much out of camera, and not edited big time, all that grass is real lighting. you are lucky to be working where you do.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

frankraney wrote:

you sayin this is pretty much out of camera, and not edited big time, all that grass is real lighting. you are lucky to be working where you do.

Ah! You meant it must've taken some time to do the editing, right? Well, yes, it took some time, but mainly because I process/edit every image I choose to post. How much time I spent on editing this particular image was, I'd imagine, about the same amount of time as it took to drive to where the bighorns (unexpectedly) were. Maybe 20 minutes?

Ordinarily, I have a reasonable idea as to how an image will get processed/edited as, or before, I shoot a shot. Other times, once I've gotten home and have seen an image on my monitor, some alternative form of editing may suggest itself. That was the case with this image --and it did receive a very 'alternate' form of editing, but one I've done plenty of times before in one variation or another--, partly because I hadn't expected to see any bighorns while on my way to somewhere else, and partly because the circumstances (no shoulder to pull off onto, no traffic in view at that moment but subject to rapid change [truckers coming from the Potash Plant do NOT go slow, and tourists are ordinarily more interested in looking at the scenery than they are interested in looking at the road], be foolish/illegal to shut the motor off to lessen vibration, &etc.) imposed their own unique shooting limitations.

In any event, processing/editing takes (me) very little time.

Lastcastmike

Great (Lucky?) timing. My main question is - Did you know you had a keeper when you shot it? Did you blast away when you saw this and ended up with several to choose from. Thanks a lot for sharing this super photo with us.

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

Cany143 wrote:

Down along the road.

Pleasure to meet, Cany! Thanks for a beautiful introduction

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Lastcastmike wrote:

Great (Lucky?) timing. My main question is - Did you know you had a keeper when you shot it? Did you blast away when you saw this and ended up with several to choose from. Thanks a lot for sharing this super photo with us.

Just lucky timing, really. Seeing bighorns around here isn't exactly rare, but seeing any in the particular place they were was extremely unusual. Of the total of 12 shots I managed to get --between constantly needing to look up and down the road to watch for approaching traffic [while I shot from my running vehicle that sat on the typically busy-ish two lane road]--, this was the only shot in which the ram (or either of the two ewes) didn't have his muzzle to the ground feeding, had been facing away and presenting only his sheep-butt, or was facing away from the better light. It was obvious and apparent at the time that of any, the shot I first posted would be the best of the lot.

Below is one of the alternate shots. Apart from minor cropping, it has not been otherwise edited. I think the beer can really makes the shot, don't you?

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miket22 Loc: Northern Massachusetts

The way the blow outs with the light really makes your choice photo. No beer can please.