Theme Thursday: Trees or Leaves

Colorado defeated me today.  I was planning on taking an incredible (of course) shot from the church parking lot after class this morning.  I was going to play around with macro and landscape settings, and even try out manual focus (after I dug out the camera manual to even figure out how to make it let me focus manually... manual, manually... there should be a pun in there somewhere, right?).  My shot was going to capture a beautiful evergreen in the foreground and majestic Pikes Peak looming in the distance.  It was going to be epic.  As I made my way into class (running just a tad late, otherwise I would have done my photography right away) I glanced excitedly at the view I would capture in two short hours.

And then the snow rolled in.  It was crazy windy and crazy cold. The mountains were completely obscured.  In just a few minutes my fingers were so numb it was all I could do not to drop the camera, let alone try to manually focus it for the first time ever, and it was so windy that even if I could have controlled the focus the darn tree wouldn't stay still enough for a macro shot.

Not what I was going for at all.

So instead I leave you with one of my very favoritest tree shots of all time.  I took this several years ago on a retreat in college.  I'm pretty sure I used the macro setting on my camera (whatever I had then... actually, it was probably my sister's camera).

Very proud of this one.

Go see Cari and the gang for their incredible pictures!