Summer is Romantic!

While some are saying fall is just around the corner, in our next of the woods it’s still hot! And in fact when I look out, it looks like summer, that brown, dried out look with harsh light wavingin the heat shimmer. With the temps and the landscape, it’s not really inviting to head out with a camera and sweat literally and figuratively to make a click. Yet …

In the process of doing some visual homework for an upcoming project I was in my location gallery looking at backgrounds, in particular, The Palouse, WA. This vast, rolling landscape has many, many faces depending literally on the day of the year. It’s a gorgeous place I love to roam as it is new every turn in the road. In the summer as the fields on its hills turn brown just before harvest, the shades of tan, brown, yellow, meld together into a magical carpet. At sunset when you venture to the top of Steptoe Butte, you lookout on a vastness it’s hard to find anywhere else.

With plenty of water in hand, broad brim hat protecting your face, you wait for that moment. When you arrive there is no photograph and you might question your decision to make the drive in the first place. Then the sun heads for the horizon and the shadows start to hint at the magic to come. Then, then just before the sun slides towards the west you see in the viewfinder why you ventured out in the heat of summer. It’s at that moment you know deep down, summer is romantic!