matthewgraf

The road ahead

The road ahead

Heading back from dropping my son off in Wyoming, where I used to live, was a dichotomy. We were heading home, but I was also leaving "home". This w...
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Heading back from dropping my son off in Wyoming, where I used to live, was a dichotomy. We were heading home, but I was also leaving "home". This was taken using a polarizing filter, but the smoke from California fires made Wyoming and Nebraska look like a fog had arrived.
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Canon EOS 80D

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Aperture f/8 ISO 500 Shutter 1/60 Focal Length 60/1

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Scottsbluff, Nebraska, US

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upload_date

Aug, 2020

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86

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