11 January 2011: Gloaming

11JAN2011, originally uploaded by blueathena7.

I have taken many, many variations of this same scene because one could probably say there are no two sunsets just alike, but I could stand at the same exact spot and click the shutter at exactly the same moment in the sunset passing... None of those photos would ever be the exact same. Clouds and light play.

Sailing Sunset

This video uses photos taken nearly every ten seconds of a sunset on Lake Hefner while sailboats criss-cross the frame. I like this one better than my first attempt. :)

Time lapse photography by Laura Anne Heller at Lake Hefner, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 9, 2010. Music, titled "Corncob", from incompetech.com.

Lakeside

This is my first time lapse photography video. I stood for about 2 hours snapping pictures nearly every ten seconds of sunset on Lake Hefner and kite surfers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 8, 2010. I'll post the second one, of sailboats, in a few minutes.

Photography and video by Laura Anne Heller. Music from freeplaymusic.com ("From Little Rock to Glasgow" and "One Horse Town").

sunday sunset 1-24-2010

I went to Lake Hefner around 4pm to walk for a while. I pulled out my old running shoes, still a little dusty from being worn for a hike or camping trip, and tied them on.  I get started walking, not in the power-walk way or too slow of a stroll either, just fast enough to keep beat to some of the faster paced songs on my music player.  Then I started getting bothered by the upper heal of both shoes, the part that rubs against the back of my ankle.  I stop at a bench, take off the shoes, and tug and pull to stretch the shoe some and bend back the upper heal. This doesn't really make much of a difference. I'm already a good way in, so it's okay to turn back now.  I'd been walking for about 30 minutes. Plus, I had stopped to take a few pictures until the battery in my camera died.  I just knew it would before I left home!

So I finally get all the way back to my car, realize I have a couple of batteries that work, but I don't know for how long.  I just want to capture the sunset again. So I sit by this solitary tree for another 30-40 minutes, thinking, exploring ideas for the next poetry book, thinking about people, and listening to the songs on my music player. I realize my left ankle feels stiff, so I check it out.  Apparently it did blister and bleed.  The little elastic pull loop at the upper heal of the shoes had worn through and had rubbed at my ankle until it bled.  Oh great. Ouch.

But at least I got some pretty sunset pictures (look at the Lake Hefner set on flickr) and I did manage to walk around an hour total.  :)