December 29, 2004

Not Totally Gray

The Middle Tennessee area around Nashville is a reasonably picturesque place most of the year, but not in winter when the dominant color is gray. More than any other place I have ever lived, the skies remain gray for much of the winter here - even staying gray long after the latest snow or chilly rain storm has passed. So today's sun was a welcome site and I drove around for a half hour this afternoon (hoping to get this guy to fall asleep) in a mostly rural area of Williamson County, a suburb of Nashville, looking for picturesque scenes and found lots of grays and browns. Until the sun started dipping low and the sky started turning pink. Here are a few roadside shots from along Goose Creek Bypass and Columbia Highway.

1/60 sec, f/16

1/160 sec, f/16

1/80 sec, f/16

All of the photos were shot with a Canon EOS 6.3MP Digital Rebel and Canon's 28-135mm zoom lens, at the exposures provided above, with the camera set at ISO 1600 to compensate for the low light. The detail on the large versions of the pictures - 3,072 x 2,048 pixels - is extremely clear.

And yes, he fell asleep, and, as I write this almost two hours later is sleeping still. Too bad I gotta go wake him up to go to his Nana's house.