Keystone Lake is just a few miles upstream from Tulsa on the Arkansas river. With Oklahoma subject to periodic droughts, the Keystone Dam is often not very impressive, with just enough water flowing to generate power, but Oklahoma has been pretty wet this year, and there have been very heavy rains upstream, so they are running a lot of water through the dam right now.
We got up early to try and get a photo of the Moon setting over the dam, I had the location planned correctly, but I messed up on the timing. The Moon was setting just as we drove up, and I could not get the camera set up in time to get the shot. Still we had some interesting light, and there was a strong mist from the dam that developed into a heavy fog. We stayed for a few hours and I took pictures in the changing light. Ren is very understanding, and patient with my early morning photo jaunts.
The area below the dam was filled with birds, thousands of them. The Pelicans were passing through on their annual migration. As the sun was rising they began to feed.
As we were leaving we found that most of the flock were on the lake side of the dam. It was hard to tell in the fog but the lake was covered in Pelicans for as far as we could see. This photo only captures a tiny portion of them.
While I did not get the photo I was after, I am still pleased with the photos that I did get.
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The photos are gorgeous.
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Thank you. He did such an amzing job with them. Then there were all those pelicans! What an awesome morning.
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Thanks so much.
Wow! what an incredible pictures!
However, I do advice to give a watermark on those pictures :-) or at least license notice.
He doesnt like the watermark idea, but i think we will be coming up with a copyright something. Thanks so much for the suggestion.
You are welcome. I think it's best to give a little copyright notice thus it's safe from plagiarism:-) or you can simply release it under CC0 license. I genuinely think your photographs are exceptional.
Scott works really hard at it. I tend to know what I like, but he has all the know-how on getting the photo he wants. I just point and shoot, hoping for the best. haha.
Ren
Team work makes the best work :-)
Have a great day both o you! have you heard of travelfeed by the way?
I think so too! He would get obsessed and miss some of the good stuff if I weren't around. haha.
Oh, we are regulars with the travelfeed tag. They are doing such a great thing. We also use the @steemitworldmap. I think most of Oklahoma is from us. haha.
Ren
woww..its very amazing, mister!!
Thank you.
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