I'm Afraid! (This Story Remembered )

 

I woke up early, I was afraid.  I was alone for the night, as Julie and Tamera were on their annual tenting excursion at West Hawk Lake.  I decided since I couldn't sleep I'd get up and head out with my camera.  

The sun was not up yet and this would allow me to get out and capture it coming up.  I headed southwest and ended up down some narrow country road that was not in the greatest of shape, but I kept going. My thinking was that this road was probably just used by farmers to get onto to their fields.  

I passed along side a farmyard and in the back he had this huge scarecrow in his cornfield.  I stop and looked at it for awhile, then decided I'd get out and capture an image of it.  As I was setting up I felt creeped out, I was scared.  This felt like an area I wasn't supposed to be in.  I took a couple of quick shots then moved on.  A mile or so down the road I found what I was looking for, a field of round bales.

The sun would be coming up soon so I would have to hurry and get set up before it did.  I grabbed my tripod and camera and headed a little ways across the field. It was quiet with just me and the birds out there.  I was feeling a little paranoid and kept looking at the road I had come down, never the less I needed to work out this fear thing so I put my Nikon D90 with a 10-20 Sigma lens on my tripod.  I looked up and saw that there were clouds in front of the sun and there was light streaming through a separation in the clouds. I was also noticing some cool colours showing.  I focused on the front bale and put my f stop to 14 and I adjusted my shutter speed accordingly.  I shot a few shots off adjusting my shutter speed on each to get different exposures, then I moved my camera to get a different point of view. I kept doing this for about 30 minutes or so.  My creativity was used up as my brain seems to get tired so easily.  My fear had subsided some and my brain space was a little better.  I was hungry so I decided to head home for a coffee and some breakfast.  After I had eaten I checked out what I had.  I really liked this one, and since taking this image back in 2021, I have re-edited it a number of times as I have just not been happy with any of my edits.  While getting images together for a book idea I did this edit and I'm happy with this one.  I hope you like it too!