Smoke Veils & Liberation

Camera: Nikon D60

Aperture - f/5.6

 Exposure- 1/1600
ISO- 200
Lens- 200mm

No Flash.

Advice: Don't always run on auto! For this shot, I had to do a LOT of experimenting with manual exposure for the lighting, as well as messing around with the manual focus- autofocus refused to allow the bridge to show up!

For quite some time we've been plagued with massive clouds of smoke where I live. Yeah, that's right, that isn't fog in this photograph! The day I took it, we had barely over a mile viability. Then on Friday (after 83 days of dry weather) we finally got some rain! Hooray! The veil of smoke is now gone, and we can enjoy fresh air and take in the lovely fall colors that have been rapidly appearing.

Looking at this picture, I think of how in the Bible things were spoken of as being "veiled". When the rain came, our veil of smoke was lifted, the beautiful fall colors could be seen & we could regain our liberty to breathe outdoors. Likewise, when we turn to the Lord, it is as if a veil is lifted from our line of sight. We begin to see the glory of God, notice His hand in the happenings of the world, and we become liberated from the bondage of sin! (That however is not to say we will never sin while still on this earth, but that we are no longer slaves to sinful desires).

"Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." - 2 Corinthians 16-18


"The creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." - Romans 8:21