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The Golden Hour: a Photographer's Happy Hour

The Golden Hour: a Photographer's Happy Hour

Along Allen Parkway between Waugh Dr. and Montrose, above Buffalo Bayou, there is this fountain that looks like a giant dandelion. What would otherwise be merel...
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Along Allen Parkway between Waugh Dr. and Montrose, above Buffalo Bayou, there is this fountain that looks like a giant dandelion. What would otherwise be merely an interesting fountain becomes something spectacular in the golden light of the setting sun with the silhouettes of two companions before it.
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Aperture f/22 ISO 400 Shutter 1/1250 Focal Length 920/10

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Oct, 2015

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