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Weekend in Laramie, WY

 

It was time for a break from bird photography and do some landscape and stars, to change it up a bit.  And, yes, I brought the bird lens, just in case. Well, it has been pretty smoky in Colorado due to the fires in California.  I guess this is just how summer is now.  The skies were clearing and if we go up high, in Medicine Bow, we could get past the smoke.  At a two hour drive from Denver, Laramie, WY was the perfect home base.

The Wyoming Territorial State Historic Prison was a half a mile down the road from our tiny little AirBnB and naturally we had to check it out. The prison has been restored and has a very well appointed museum.  There was a big exhibit on Butch Cassidy.  No night photography, the rain rolled in while we were at the prison. 

I picked up a 14 mm lens for the Fuji XE4, not bad.  I do see a difference in clarity in my photos at 1/30 of a second.  Neither the camera or lens has image stabilizer.  Now I know, 1/30 is too slow. Low light was pretty good too.  I shoot so dark that does a F2.8 really work for me?  Almost all my lenses are F4.5. The interiors I had to beef up the iso to 3200 at minimal grain, pretty happy about that. Then I bleach bypassed them...adding grain.  Really? 

Camera: FujiFilm XE4








The next day we planned on shooting Medicine Bow National Forest.  It was freaking cold! Tt was 55 degrees in the morning.  It is a good thing that we always bring our winter gear, on every road trip, so we were prepared.  When we got to Libby Lake, it was super windy and the air was thick with smoke and fog.  Not what we were hoping for. We made the best of it.  

I processed this photos with an Infrared filter and a blur vignette.  I like them! 

Camera: FujiFilm XT3









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Location: Laramie, WY, USA

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