Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

My dogs and I with Nikon D4 left at dawn from our hotel and followed small roads into the foothills of the Western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in this case rte 603 which is Irish Creek road that follows Irish Creek. The mountains are mostly granite so farming is usually raising dairy or beef cattle on small patches of flat ground where soil has settled enough to grow grass or hay at the bottom of the ridges where the creeks run as this was when the sun was up but not yet over the mountains enough to fully light or burn off the fog when I shot this with the D4 at 1/500th and iso 250 and when post processing discovered these shots had not the white of normal fog or the sometimes bluish mist of the Blue Ridge but a greenish tint. It is the photo of the trip and my dogs did not notice nor did I until post was started. I cropped and adjusted contrast so maybe the contrast accentuated the color that was there that morning as it was not that green to my eyes. None the less, it is probably the most unusual photo I've ever taken with natural light...weird and beautiful some friends have said so I share. Ever encountered such a thing? No filters on camera, and no post tricks to change the hue, just crop and contrast adjustment. The other photo is the next morning from the spine of the Blue Ridge on the Parkway going north to Waynsboro then home to Chester, va. and the last is my dogs and hotel life after each days journeys and how they felt about getting in and out of the suv many times a day. Yes, we had to share the double beds....these are big dogs, Borzoi show dogs. In case you are wondering, yes, this is moonshine country still...Rockbridge County Virginia...we stayed near the excellent Virginia Horse Center facility in Lexington tho no horses were there mid week. It runs events on the weekends generally.

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sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Nice set - looks like a nice place! Did the dogs come with the room? Did you get to run them around the horse track (with little-bitty jockeys)?

Gitchigumi Loc: Wake Forest, NC

Nice trip! Lovely area, wish I could live there. Lexington is my favorite town. And, we have done event photos at the Virginia Horse Center... Great facility!

As to your question... Could the greenish tint have come from the color balance setting? Nonetheless, the green cast can be easily removed in LR, PS, or whatever post processing software you use. 👍🤓👍

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

LOL...No, the dogs came with me. They are my buddies. The Virginia Horse Center is enormous and has a multipurpose outdoor ring where they can do the kind of jumps you see in the Olympics and indoor rings for dressage and I think this weekend they have barrel racing. they do have trail competitive facilities and schooling grounds as well. One of the premier facilities on the east coast where every top competitive rider goes at times. They must have barn space for 200 horses there and many, many buildings for various purposes...from here north to Loudon County in Virginia is not only the "former" moonshine country but iot is the horse country for the rich and famous as well. Out in the boonies where the road got very small I saw this cold water drain someone had decorated and photographed it then got the heck out of there...it could have been the drain for cooling water on someone's still. Every time the ABC raises liquor prices the amount of sugar consumed in these western Va. counties goes way up....we can all do that math. It got so remote back there and so alone the road went from two lane paved to one with no shoulders 50' above the creek and two dirt ruts and that's when I turned the big expedition around at the widest spot, very carefully, and went home. It is gorgeous out there. My smugmug site has about 400 images of the trip where we also hiked a short length of the Appalachian trail and this is my big champion quality male, Rom, cooling his heels in Otter Creek as well.

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Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

thanks for the comment. No, this is my Nikon D4 and it was only those few at that time and condition, not any other images captured that day. Remove it? Are you kidding? As natural light I'd never remove such an unusual phenomenon...not unlike what people describe as the green flash at sundown in Key West...

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

A p.s. these are pretty large dogs. Far Field Remoulade, the male named Rom, is 88" long from tail tip to nose....anything but little. Fab. athletes too. They did get to meet in real life there a working cattle horse and pony for their first ever meeting with a horse when the owner liked the dogs and said, get 'em out and let's see how they like my horses who are used to it. She was meeting her vet there as she lived on the other side of the mountain.

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Beautiful, and it's nice that you let the dogs have their own room. : )

Zazzy1 Loc: Northern Ca.

Are those Borzoi's

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Beautiful shots, Lance, and I love your dogs! Our son lives down in VA, but on the eastern side, so we get to see OBX and the Dismal Swamp Trail, which is really fun.
Our son saw a bear once when he was running on the trail. You never know what you're going to see!

Lance Pearson Loc: Viriginia

Yes, Rom is Far Field Remoulade, a Louisiana boy and Princess Liliana is a rescue from a mad Russian woman breeder...she is the smaller and he has the sable highlights. He has nothing but champion and grand champion in his breeding on both sides as far back as it goes...he is the real deal, as good as it gets in the top 5% in north america for the breed. Rom and Lili, my intelligent, wide ranging pals. they are each just past five years of age and she is an example of one russian standard and he of the more heavily furred western standard.

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