"Sunset over Sledge Creek", taken with a Canon 5D camera, Circa 2006: First photo shoot with a new camera and lens.

What an incredible day. While I ignored a bait dangling over the side of my pontoon boat, I watched the clouds build color for about 45 minutes as the sun sank like a silent eye. All told, I must have taken 400 photographs. Many of them were purely static shots of cloud formations to use as painting study material later on. The new wide-angle lens performed flawlessly, opening up the horizon from surface to firmament, laying it bare. I was amazed.

When the sun finally winked out behind the Sledge Creek tree line, my fully engaged fishing rod jangled me out of my sunset-enhanced stupor long enough to catch dinner.

Fish on!

 

P.S. To commemorate the occasion, I have a stunning, 44x66-inch canvas print of this image hanging on my living room wall. Every time I walk through the front door I can almost feel the pontoon boat swaying underfoot.