Day 3, still raining, still hunting - - A few Photos to View - -

          Still raining after 3 days, still stuck on 2 for "WEEKLY AUTHOR" badge, even after 10 post in a row. Must be due to the times I have been posting, I guess I need to have a more consistent time that I post.

          So on with the picture show. Lets start with a look back to a crowning spikey sunset. I know for the purest in photography that I should have tweaked it a little bit to level the image, sorry, I just noticed myself that it was slightly tilted, okay well a lot tilted. I am glad this is not a photo contest entry that I really wanted to win with, because it would not win without a little tweaking. Like leveling the horizon to begin with.

          This was taken on the beach from the south side of the Kenai River dumping into the Cook Inlet. If we were to go there today, the picture would have a lot of people in it.. In February it is just to cold for people to be camping on the beach, and the mud is pretty frozen, so its not like you can dig for clams or anything, other than to enjoy the sunset, which we did.

          So since I started with a view of the Inlet, and the sunset, I may as well drive you down the road oh about 50 miles and let you have a non-sunset view of the Alaska Range and the Cook Inlet. This is the view from the biggest roadside pullout on the way to Homer, just past Ninilchik, and before Happy Valley. A very popular spot, and one that unless it is in the winter or the very early summer, with a strong wind, you are not going to get a picture with out people in it. I have a few but could not find them. So I selected this one to share. The mountain peak to the right is Mt Redoubt, an active volcano and it does blow up on occasion, and steams a lot.

          The second peak, (just before the small clump of bushes on the left), is Iliamna Mountain. It is also an active volcano. There is a lot of volcanoes along the Alaska Range. The image is once again not very professional, but I am still learning my camera. This is an artificial Pano shot. One image with the excess top and bottom cut out to make it look like a long pano of multiple shots stitched together. I am terrible at photo stitching, as you saw with my try in the Captain Cook Park photo.

          The Kenai Peninsula is a pretty scenic place to live. We have a lot of small lakes and they all provide for a beautiful picture. Here is a small lake close by to where we live. As far as I know it is one of the thousands that does not have a name. The people that live along or close to it probably have a name for the lake, but no name is posted at the pullout for the lake. Just a small nice pull out with a view to enjoy a snack or lunch in the car/motorhome, and have some thing pleasant to look at. A little bit of a breeze that day, but it keeps the mosquitoes at bay. It would be nice to get a good reflection shot from.

          Almost August, that is good, and the reason no doubt for all the rain we have been having it is almost Mushroom time. These next couple of photos were taken with my Samsung Smart Phone last year, (pre cool camera). I like taking pictures of mushrooms. Don't ask why, I have no clue why I like taking their pictures, I just think they are pretty photogenic, and a subject that gets over looked sometimes. Kind of like dead fish bones on the beach, (yes I have some photos of skeleton fish, one is even a good representative of the steemit dead fish.), okay enough about dead fish. The mushrooms, two to view.

          A colorful red tinged guy, and yes that is the natural color of the mushroom, I did not tweak the color on the photo or anything like that. Just a slight red blush mushroom. I thought it looked pretty cool, and was a nice photogenic subject. My smart phone didn't do to bad of a job of capturing it.

          Like the first image, I really do not know the names of the mushrooms, I just like taking the pictures. This group of mushrooms could be named pancake mushrooms because they look like just before being over done pancakes. A very nice toasty brown, slightly curled up edges, and bordered in white. Very neat looking mushroom. Both of these mushroom shots were taken at the Moose River Bridge boat launch area.

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          Well it sounds like the rain has finally stopped, Hopefully for a little bit. maybe this will be the lucky post that makes it 7 in a row, but I think I need to keep trying until next monday, something about being a monday to monday badge. I'll think of a few more post to do. I still want to practice my fiction writing, so maybe next post a try at a short story. We'll see what tomorrow brings. I hope you enjoyed the photos.