Knee Op restricts me to Window Shooting

Dixie

Getting desperate to get out and shoot. Right now the knee isn't strong enough to get out and walk and carry the gear so I spent half the day just driving around looking for something interesting to shoot.

Regretfully, too many powerlines and not enought old buildings close to the road. Here is one place in Etowah County, Alabama that definitely has some future shoot possibilities.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Click on images for EXIF data.

Same place - one horizontal and one vertical. (I know - I need to change the year on my frame template.)

Stef

I must say.. even with your leg not being so good, you are still able to capture beautiful scenes! I wish mine looked that good... and I didn't have surgery!
Hope you heal fast. I look for your posts!

StevenV

you know what that reminds me of.

eye-max

I suppose one could say you are "driven to take pictures" I like both but prefer #2, the textures the broken roof, wood & grass do it for me

grimace

Beautiful shots Dixie!!

Sorry to hear the knee is still bothering you.

-Adam

Dixie

Stef wrote:

I must say.. even with your leg not being so good, you are still able to capture beautiful scenes! I wish mine looked that good... and I didn't have surgery!
Hope you heal fast. I look for your posts!

Thanks, Stef. At least I should be over the worse of it within the next few weeks. Hopefully, the surgery will give me the opportunity to now hike to some of the places I've had to skip in the past.

Dixie

StevenV wrote:

you know what that reminds me of.

Steven, thank goodness I'm not that laid up. Yet.

ginger_55

Hi, Dixie, those are darn good for a crippled old man!!!!

Darn!

I am glad you are coming along, I was wondering how you had done with the surgery. Yes, I do have some places I can sit in the car and a small bird might come and land on a tree like you have. It is kind of called, "my tree". I use it in the heavy rain, smile.

Those are really nice, and I do hope you are up and hiking soon, but don't "push" it!

ginger (the lighthouse here, maybe? Next summer, maybe? Spring, maybe?)

Dixie

eye-max wrote:

I suppose one could say you are "driven to take pictures" I like both but prefer #2, the textures the broken roof, wood & grass do it for me

Max, #2 is my pick as well. I should have made one shot of the entire scene because there is an old house with green asphault shingles and a propane tank just to the right of the old building on the right (the one in the 2nd photo). It was really a bear framing the photos to cut them out and still get an acceptable photo.

Dixie

grimace wrote:

Beautiful shots Dixie!!

Sorry to hear the knee is still bothering you.

-Adam

Thanks, Adam. Actually the knee really isn't "bothering" me. I'm just 2 and a half weeks post op and well on the mend and doing more each and every day. I just can't go rock climbing and crawling across ditches and rough terrain for another week or so. ....but then I hope to be back out in the wilds with the best of them.

Dixie

ginger_55 wrote:

Hi, Dixie, those are darn good for a crippled old man!!!!

Darn!

I am glad you are coming along, I was wondering how you had done with the surgery. Yes, I do have some places I can sit in the car and a small bird might come and land on a tree like you have. It is kind of called, "my tree". I use it in the heavy rain, smile.

Those are really nice, and I do hope you are up and hiking soon, but don't "push" it!

ginger (the lighthouse here, maybe? Next summer, maybe? Spring, maybe?)

Actually, I'll pretty much be ready to go anytime after the first of February. Flexibility is doing great and I'm primarily working on strength right now. Walking on level ground isn't a problem.

I'll let you know the next time I'm headed over to the Charleston area.