I had just left a Saturday evening meeting at church when I saw that we were actually going to have a sunset, unlike all those past cloudy evenings! One of the most important elements of a good sunset photo is actually the foreground object, so I scrambled to think of a good place to go. I didn’t have much time because, as they say, daylight was a-wastin’. So I bolted to Misty Waters to get an angle at the Square Buttes and the river.

When I got there I got a nice tower, the buttes, and a reflection off of the river…all lined up for the taking! I had to stand on top of the truck to get the shot I wanted, but that’s never stopped me before. It feels good to get a nice sunset photo, something that I’d been known for in the past but have had a hard time getting in recent memory. Part of it is that I’m a husband and a dad, and sunsets are occurring later and later in the day. The other reason is that the rains with which we’ve been blessed lately also block out the sun. I’m more than happy to go without blazing sunsets for a while in order to get that rain!