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A Summer Walk With You

Tonight’s Feature Image is titled “The Other Side Of Morning”and is available forpurchase by using the Contact Form onmy website. Found at https://lloydslensphotographyllc.com/contact/

Take my hand and walk with me for a while.

Share your day with me and let’s dream about the future together.

Let me feel your smile like the warm sun on my face.

Let’s cross over the bridge and stroll barefoot in the cool grass as we plan our forever.

Let’s get lost in each other’s eyes until the sunlight fades into dusk.

I don’t want to miss a single moment that we’re together.

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Looking Down To Fayette Station & A Little Boy’s Dreams Of Flight

Color Photography

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The New River Gorge is one of the most beautiful places in West Virginia. Normally photos taken of this area feature the New River Gorge Bridge spanning the gorge 876 feet above the water. However, once per year the bridge is open to pedestrians and there’s a chance to get the opposite angle featuring Fayette Station. The view of the canyon is as good as it gets without a helicopter. I remember back in late 70s and early 80s there was a hang glider craze and at least one time I saw gliders on the canyon rim. I have no idea if it was a good idea due to wind but it sounded like fun. The big concern would have been winds blowing the glider into a rock. I’ve stood up on a ledge along the canyon walls and experienced the rain coming up from valley below due to those winds.

Walking the bridge and the high cliff overhangs of West Virginia always inspired the sensation of flying for me. As a child with a very active imagination I always pretended that I could build a giant paper airplane and sail it from the edge of canyon. In my little fantasy I would bank by leaning one way or the other and sail all the way to Gauley Bridge. It’s a fantasy brought back to me by standing on the edge of the New River Gorge Bridge and looking down at Fayette Station.

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The Power Of Change

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I was commenting with my friend today about negativity in our lives. Negative attitudes are everywhere. They invade our jobs and businesses. Negativity comes into our homes through our television and social media. Some days it seems like we’re surrounded by those who feed on misery.

Titled “Job’s Comforters”. Clicking on the photo takes you to the contact form.

But,I know the the chink in their armor.

Whatever you chose to feed grows and whatever you chose to starve dies.

Sounds like a simple solution right? Just stop feeding the negative emotions and the problem goes away. Well, kinda. Sometimes the negativity takes on a life of its own. It wants to exist. It’s hard at first to focus on the positive but soon the starvation effective kicks in and those negative voices began to weaken. The buzzards that gather around just waiting for us to fall will eventually have to find a new roost.

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The clouds will part and the sun reclaims the day.

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The positive thoughts we feed will grow. And soon we’ll have a new companion to keep us company.

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The power of change isn’t in the voices on television or the clever comments on social media. The power of change is in you. It’s in what you chose to give your life’s energy too. Do you chose to feed the buzzard or the parrot? Do we see the dark clouds or the sunshine that peeks through them?

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Remembering Wintertime Camping

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The big chill of 2019 in full swing tonight. I look out my window at the crystalline world that surrounds me and thank God for my warm home with it’s gas heat. I thank God for the modern conveniences and the large bed with a deep pile of blankets. I haven’t participated in deer camp for several years but I do have memories camping in the winter climate. It wasn’t as cold as is this year but there was more than one occasion when the temperature was down in the teens at night. I remember one night in particular, when I was out with an ROTC group that we dug ditches to sleep in. Because we got down below the frost line we didn’t freeze. Being out in the extreme cold is certainly an experience that will test your will. It’s not something that I recommend unless you are well prepared and you’re only a few feet away from a warm shelter. Aside from sleeping in a ditch I would try to get out of wind by trying to find a spot that’s high enough up out of valleys that the cold air doesn’t settle down on top of my camp but not so high that the mountain doesn’t buffer the wind. Finding thick fir trees is also a good place to get out of wind.

I’m sure that you’ve seen the memes that advises people that “if you’re cold they’re cold” that raises awareness about pet safety in cold weather. Pets are family too and as such they’re adapted to live in the conditions we live in. Which means a warm fire and good shelter. But what if the rolls were reversed? What if we were suddenly thrust into wild on a cold night? Well, we’d need to adapt ourselves to do what the wildlife does to survive.

1. Community. Herd and pack animals rely on each other to keep warm. They keep the young near the center in order to provide the most shelter.

2. Burrowing. Foxes, chipmunks and some birds escape from freezing cold by digging below the frost line like I mentioned earlier.

3. The den. Beavers and squirrels make nests of thick piles of brush to stay nice and cozy. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this.

This kind of thing is a young person’s game. The older I get the less need I have to challenge myself. I’ll take a warm fire and cable television over a frozen landscape any day.

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Big Puffy Cloud Syndrome

Color Photography

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Do you dream about flying? As a child I would hold my hand outside the window of the car as dad drove. I would tilt and bend my hand in different ways to feel the way the wind pushed and pulled. I just knew that it I could ever get airborne that I could master living flight. Over the years I developed what I call “Big Puffy Cloud Syndrome”. I would look up at the clouds and imagine how it feel to zip through them like Peter Pan. The experience with the car window was all the training that I needed. I knew that I could execute a roll by inverting my hands or climb and dive by the way I arched my back. The only thing holding me back was reality. However, I did actually learn how an airframe interacts with the wind. As I got older I learned how to fly R.C. airplanes. In days before drones small gasoline powered planes were the toy if choice for young would be pilots. Then the desktop computer was invented and it wasn’t long before flight simulators could be had. I learned that controlling a real aircraft was very different than I imagined. Now we’ve had a real paradigm shift and there’s a real possibility of a small quad-copter that is controlled exactly like the toy. Perhaps I’ll live long enough to take to the sky and touch those big puffy clouds after all.

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