Valley Contrasts

I found myself in an old photo folder from 2006, looking for a specific photo for a specific reason. Having done what I needed to do, I re-edited a few, or re-edited them for the first time, having passed over them back then. Back then, I was on the cusp of learning more about photography, and the photos were not good quality, but it was a special trip, so one does what can.

This was at a stop on our native-guided jeep tour. We were importuned to purchase a necklace from a young Navajo boy who claimed to be selling it to help raise money for his older brother to go on a field trip.

Although those were the photos that I wanted, I fooled around with the few more, once again, mostly ones that I had overlooked previously. This was from one of our stops, and that is Sue way down near the bottom left. Our tour guide is talking to another tour guide on the lower right. After doing the normal colour version, I also wondered how it would look in mono.

Just two more: (1) a monument seen through a gap, and (2) trees in the desert.

I enjoyed working through some of these old photos and being reminded of this special tour, but by nightfall here, we were in our first major storm of the season. Maybe I will go and take some quick phone pics out the window in the 6AM darkness.

The phone brightened this photo out the back window. That's our poor lilac bush being bowed low in the foreground and the daycare centre in the back. It may not be as busy this Friday with buses cancelled and more adults staying at home. In between lies a normally busy road. It will probably still get its fair share of traffic today, for the show must go on.

From my den looking out front, I can see just beyond the garage that our driveway has been plowed but that the town plows have pushed a snow ridge back in front of our access. It doesn't matter since our contractor is good about coming back and also because we don't need to go anywhere. One bloke (mid left) is already shovelling-out to get to wherever he has to get to.

The plows will remain busy for another day because this storm is going to keep on.

Quite a contrast between Monument Valley and the Ottawa Valley.