Returned today from a week on Kauai. I will be posting some other shots but this is what we saw on our last night there. Pretty iconic shot but I never get tired of seeing them and shooting them.

On this day, July 3, 150 years ago, Pickett’s Charge marked the effective culmination of The Battle of Gettysburg. I visited Gettysburg last summer and captured this photo of a statue that sits atop Cemetery Ridge. This statue represents the Union soldiers that were out of ammunition, using their rifles as clubs in this bitter and costly fight.
I posted this a year ago but there are new people visiting my blog so I hope those who have seen it don’t mind.
Death Valley’s Mesquite Sand Dunes is 2 miles south of Stovepipe Wells Village. There is a parking lot but you have to hike 2 miles or more to get out to the largest dunes. I found that if you park 1/4 of a mile north of the lot and off the side of the road you can hike to dunes that the tourists don’t get to. The importance of that, for a photograph, is there are no foot prints to spoil the pristine nature of dunes. I took photos at sunset and sunrise and this one was at sunset.
We spent the day at Gettysburg. It was our first time and we enjoyed a day-long guided tour. After dinner, the lure of sunset was too hard to resist. This monument, overlooking the valley of Pickett’s charge, represents Union soldiers using their rifles as clubs after running out of bullets. Gettysburg is an awesome place and so glad we came.
I’ve been thinking about setting up a photo blog and having used Word Press in the past I came here to try it out. I’m not sure how long the process will take but in the mean time I wanted to have a first post and include a photo to see how it looks. I might try other themes or have one custom-made. In the meantime enjoy a Kauai Sunset.