Finding November finish line.
Day 30 brings Finding November to its official finish line with a twilight journey across central Hamilton County.
The final sequence opens during the quiet stillness of blue hour at Mason Lake in Lake Pleasant, transitions to an east-facing vertical vista overlooking Indian Lake, and concludes with a four-image study along the shores of Lake Durant.
Completing this 30-day series has been a tremendous motivator to get out into the field every single day—scouting, watching the light shift, and documenting late autumn across Hamilton, Fulton, and Montgomery Counties. A sincere thank you to Mark Bowie (@mark_bowie_photo) for the creative spark and inspiration behind this effort.
Beyond the landscape work, this project served as an intentional field test for a couple of tools. I used it as an experiment with Instagram; going forward, I’ll be stepping back from the platform, as the aggressive image compression and limited presentation options simply don’t do justice to high-resolution photography. I also ran all cataloging and primary processing through cloud-based Adobe Lightroom. While Adobe has made noticeable strides with its ecosystem, the cloud version still lacks the deep control, cataloging flexibility, and batch efficiency I depend on in Lightroom Classic. My final task for this project will be migrating all thirty days of raw files and edits back home into Lightroom Classic where they belong. Keep working on it, Adobe—cloud integration is the future, but it hasn’t unseated the power of Classic just yet.