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The Auspices

September 28, 2018 by Greg Molyneux

Wide angle pastel sunset photo over salt marsh.

The Auspices — 14mm | f/8.0 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

Do you make much of signs? Omens, auguries, celestial alignments? Perhaps we but note the signs we wish to see dismissing the rest as noise? Confirmation bias made visual and symbolic. Yet does it matter if we construct our own signs? Or own futures? When nature mainlines your being to confirm the positive in our better selves we all stand better for it. The mechanism, contrived or divine need not matter. Drink in the tonic it will not harm you.

Today was full of opportunity. A chance to seize and to share. A chance to be better than yesterday. To move forward to new beginnings. It packed all the emotions of wracked nerves to wide the wide open expanse of ease and elation. Today and all its opportunity capped itself in an illumination of natural pastel.

I knew it had been a long while since I last made a sunset photograph. I did not know that gap spanned back all the way to June, 30. Damn near 25% of the year gone without a capture. I know my photography has taken a dip in output and it is my sincere hope the auspices of today are a portents of things to come.

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After Winter Storm Juno skirted the Jersey shore sparing New Jersey from historic snow, the clouds break revealing a sublime winter sunset on the frozen marsh along Cedar Run Dock Road in this HDR photograph.
14mm wide angle photo of a golden hour mackerel sky reflected over still waters of Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area.
An HDR photograph of a boggy cedar swamp taken in the heart of the Pinelands just after dawn during golden hour
A photograph of late day sunlight pierces a snow covered wooded trail meandering through the thicket.
14mm sunset photo at Cedar Run Dock Road's lush green salt marsh. Left to right panning introduces motion blur to the photograph rendering a dreamy, painterly effect to the image.

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