Morning Fog and No Wind

On the road today, and our route took us through the wind farm near Rio Vista.  We had thick fog starting in Dixon, and it was just beginning to lighten as we approached the wind farm.  I thought it was a pretty cool looking scene with the morning light filtering in behind the turbines.  They were turning ever so slowly, but it didn't feel like there was any wind to me.  

Sheep Stampede

 

Third photo from Montezuma Hills wind farm.  As promised, the sheep!   I had never seen a sheep stampede before; I didn't know they could run so fast!  There was a fence line in my way, so I had to hurry and stand in the door frame of my car to get this photo.  Once I saw a photo of Ansel Adams photographing from the roof of his car.  He had mounted a huge piece of plywood on the top of the vehicle, and he was standing on it, with his tripod, looking into the viewfinder.  It would come in handy!  Not that I can imagine crawling up to the roof of my minivan, but it would have improved the angle here, I think.

Montezuma Hills

Another photo from yesterday's drive to the Montezuma Hills wind farm near Rio Vista.  I would say there are three main commodities in Montezuma Hills:  wind energy, hay, and sheep.  (You can consider that foreshadowing if I decide to keep this series up for a third day.)  This was the only field where the hay is already baled.  I think it gives the photo a lot of depth, which I normally don't achieve with a landscape shot.  This one wasn't taken through my windshield, and the lack of polarization shows.  I actually have a polarizer for this lens, but I somehow left it at home, which was really stupid because clouds and sky is a classic use for polarizing.