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Join TJ Thorne and I on a workshop in the Columbia River Gorge this spring! And I offer some other stuff if interested! A re-edit of an old shot I took at Crater lake during the summer of 2013. Some forest fires had been burning recently, and a haze of fire smoke lingered on the horizon. When the sun rose that day, the light was being filtered by the thick smoke and instead of a searing, bright ball of light that was painful to look at, it... wasn't. You could just look right at it. It felt... odd. Wrong, almost. I'm looking at you, sun... right at you. You should be hurting my eyeballs, searing my rods and cones, and I should be looking away in pain, left with a big green dot in my sight as a reminder for the next 5-10 minutes that laying my eyes upon you is forbidden! But today you let down your guard and let me see you for who you really are. Something my mom told me never to do. You're really nice, and you mean well deep down inside. I like that about you. Thank you, Sun! Curious if anyone will get my title... A little technical info, I pointed the camera, focused, clicked the shutter a few times and then processed it all together with a computer and made it look how I thought looked cool. Thx. via TedGore http://500px.com/photo/98439887