With any luck, I will be “here” in a couple more hours …

 

FYI: This is a real image but my little point-and-shoot was not up to the task so I made this image using an old technique. If you are shooting a still scene and have a tripod, you can take several images and vary the aperture and shutter speed. This allows you to capture a larger dynamic range. You blend the layers together in GIMP or Photoshop or other editing tool and remove the blow-out of the hot photo and add the rest to the dark photo. the only catch, in this case, was the great white heron only appears in one frame so I had to make sure it was saved in the flattening of the layers.