Daily Photo – Bishop Flare

I titled this image ‘Bishop Flare’ because it obviously shows flare and it was taken near the town of Bishop in California. Taken relatively early on a fall morning in 1995, I had originally set out to compose something around the center pivot irrigation system but whatever I tried to do, at that time of the day I couldn’t escape the flare. So, I decided to make the flare a feature of the image. Today, I’d set out a tripod but this is a hand-held shot and it’s not quite symmetrical, the sun is slightly offset from center. The rings are caused by the coating on the various lens elements if the Sigma wide zoom I owned at the time.