Colorful Sunset from Jan 2nd

There was a recent gorgeous sunset in early January that I particularly liked on my daily walk.  The colors were beautiful.

Lexington Park Cityscape

We are having a cityscape theme competition for our camera club this month.  But I don’t have access to a city easily, except Lexington Park and Leonardtown.  For fun, I took photos of some of the most interesting buildings I could find in Lexington Park in one afternoon with round or unusual shapes and mirrored windows.  My Photoshop skills need more work, so this was a learning experience.  I put the photos in a panorama and imported them into my tiny planet app.  It didn’t quite work.  So, I tried it again in Photoshop after looking up how to do it.  It still needs work, and didn’t make it in time for the competition.  I wanted to add in something about the water, so I added the Dove ship and anchored the buildings on sand.   All the building blocks of the story are my own photos.  It was a little blah, so I added a cloud and reshaped it.  Any suggestions besides fixing the background of the ship? Could I add water anywhere?

Any ideas for unusual buildings in Leonardtown to try again?

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Tiny Planet App with the stretched photos

Photoshop “planet”

Holiday Lights in St. Mary's County Part 3

 I took a few more Christmas Light photos before people shut off their lights.  It is nice that folks turn these on for the all of us to enjoy and celebrate the holidays.  These were mostly taken in the Lexington Park area.

Holiday Lights in St Marys County Part 2

We drove around a second time to see some of the Christmas Lights on the Holly Jolly Trail, plus anything else pretty we passed by.  Enjoy!

Holiday Lights in St Marys County

I decided to wander around to some housing developments to photograph holiday lights.  It was fun to see how creative folks get and how they share their fun with the neighbors.  These are not areas I often photograph.  I am purposely leaving out locations for privacy purposes.  

Although I did find a fun Holly Jolly Light trail contest with houses you can drive by or watch on video.  The Southern Maryland’s Holly Jolly Light trail is listed on Facebook.  There is a map to locations in several counties.  We visited a few and some were regular lights and others were over the top.  Somdxmaslights.com takes you to the website with the maps.

Here are some colorful scenes I found.

Sunset at Leonardtown Wharf

We planned to drive to Solomon's Island for the sunset, but the line to cross the bridge was so long that we would have missed it.  Instead, we drove to Leonardtown Wharf to see the mediocre sunset.  Undaunted, I tried out my new fluorescent filter that enhanced the blue hour look and made more beautiful photos. I liked the light on the flag that made it pop a little.

Wicomico Shores Landing

 I discovered another boat landing, Wicomico Shores, in the northern part of St. Mary's County that has a very long pier.  The first time I went there, the sunset was average, so I went back again later to see if I could add a few clouds to the images.

The little park also has a few picnic tables, a boat launch and a restroom.  It is a very pretty little place for the local community.

October 29

Looong looong pier

Nov 16 

Cell phone long exposures