The weather has been beautiful with one exception.  Up until yesterday there have been crisp blue skies.   Me, I like some clouds to give texture to my photos.  Also it’s hard to get a good sunrise / sunset photo without a cloud.  It made me lazy and I wasn’t getting up in time to work the sunrise.  Well yesterday I woke up just as the sun was coming up.  I peeped out the window and realized that there were some clouds and a beautiful sunrise.  I rushed outside and took a few shots.   It really was a nice sunrise, and I found the “Whoa” sigh interesting (below).

The problem was that when I came back to my room, I brought the tripod into the room.  (I usually leave it in the car.)  Of course I ended up forgetting it when we went to Jenny Lake / Cascade Canyon.  I had to hand hold for the entire day.  There were times I did 3 shot AEB (automatic Exposure bracketing) leaning on a rock / tree / shoulder/ etc.  I’ll see how these turn out.  I also assume I can do some pseudo bracketing with the raw files in Lightroom.  (Develop normally, create a virtual copy and under expose, create another virtual copy and over expose.)  This some times works with about +/- 1 EV latitude in the raw files.  My AEB files are +/- 2 EV apart.

My only images using a tripod on Tuesday