A Sunday Afternoon Drive

A Sunday afternoon and I was having one of those strange head spaces.  It had been about a year or so since I was diagnosed with meningoencephalitis and this was one of its side effects.  They are difficult to describe so I'm not going to try.  I do know that I sometimes will feel antsy and such was the case on this particular day.  I asked my wife, Julie if she would like to go for a drive with me in the country and she said yes.  So I got my camera gear ready and we headed to the car.  I asked her if she could drive as it had been a month or so since I got my drivers back and I didn't trust myself behind the wheel at this time.  Julie suggested we pop by Coffee Culture and get a coffee so that's what we did.  After getting our coffees we drove west and I noticed beautiful clouds coming in.  We went through Mitchell and I suggested we head north as I remembered an area I used to photograph a lot.  There was a cool wood bridge there with a creek running under it as well as a tree with a lot of character in the field nearby.  As we approached the area I was immediately drawn to the tree so grabbed my tripod, Nikon D90 camera with my wide angle Sigma 10-18mm lens on it.  Looking the area over I loved how the low sun was lighting up the tree and the amazing clouds all around it.  I knew I didn't want to get the road or my own shadow in the image, so that would take some figuring.  The sun was behind me and was casting a long shadow, so I tried a few different points of view before I came up with something that I liked.  The clouds were going to be critical in this shot and I was liking what I was seeing on the back of my camera.  After a few different exposures and slightly different angles I packed up and caught up with Julie who was in the ditch picking up garbage as she is prone to do.  I felt I had what I wanted so we headed back to the car and slowly made our way home.  As we got home I realized that I was feeling much better, just getting out and being creative had helped a lot.  Thank you Julie,

 for your patience and understanding.