The light falls fast
While I setup the camera
Darker and darker
As I extend tripod legs
While I setup the camera
Darker and darker
As I extend tripod legs
Quick glances to the valley below
Hoping for enough light
To capture the clouds in the valley
To find detail in the trees
And the valley mist
Finally, set up
And capturing frames
When I begin to notice
As one light fails
Another rises
A world reveals itself
Unnoticed in the daylight
As electricity
Lights up the night
Homesteads in the trees
The town in the distance
Obscured by clouds
And a curvy backroad
Heading out to the river
Receding in darkness and scale
On it, a single car
High beams up
Lays out a 30 second string
Of pure golden light
Headlights in the Valley
Cheakamus River Valley
From Tantalus Lookout
Sea to Sky Highway
Near Squamish
British Columbia, Canada
Cheakamus River Valley
From Tantalus Lookout
Sea to Sky Highway
Near Squamish
British Columbia, Canada
2016
For Cee’s Which Way Challenge, November 30 edition.