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Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35@ 32mm| f22| 1/40 sec| ISO 200| Tripod| California Wetlands
I hope you coast through your day!
Coastal Wetland Landscape
Category: Landscapes
Pigeon Point Bluff Sunrise
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The window next to my computer faces south. Running east to west are the Santa Cruz mountains. On the other side lies the Pacific Ocean. All this week just before sunrise the southern sky has had some beautiful color so I decided to get up early to drive over the hill to Pigeon Point for the sunrise. There were clouds in the sky which gave me hope that this morning would be another beautiful sunrise.
This morning just before the sun rose over the mountains this is what it looked like:
I wasn’t disappointed. This was worth getting up early and driving 47 miles to see.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35 @35mm| f22| 0.3 sec| ISO 200| Manual Mode| Tripod
Dreams…
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…”but you never know, traveling, around what bend;
The dreams will curve to an end,
And what will happen then.”
I hope you have some time today to slip away to dream, to hope, and plan.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 80-200mm + 1.4x TC| f8| 1/1250 sec| ISO 500| Manual Mode| Hand-held| texture by Delany Dean
California country-side a day after a storm
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive” ~ William Wordsworth
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One never knows if you’ll be rewarded with beautiful color or instead see a flat sky when you get up at 4 in the morning to make the hour journey to a location you’ve wanted to shoot at sunrise for sometime.
I’ve left a Silver Lake a number of times disappointed, but thankfully that didn’t happen on this morning at Convict Lake. The colors in the dawn sky were lovely. There was very little Alpine Glow on this morning. One of these days I’ll hit the jack-pot and get both in the same photo.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35@ 17mm| f10| 1 second| ISO 200| Manual Mode| Tripod w/ release cable| Singh-Ray Grad ND filter
Seeing red
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Sunset the last night of my New Year’s Photography trip in the Eastern Sierras along the Owens River.
Jan. 3, 2012| Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35 @ 20mm| f8| 1/15sec| ISO 200| Manual Mode| Tripod
Early evening on the Marsh
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Golden hour on this section of the Marsh was absolutely gorgeous the Sat. I spent here photographing birds. There were some low clouds, and a fine mist of fog was moving in just as the sky was getting a hint of pink. It acted as a diffuser making the golds and yellows POP! I moved to a couple of locations around this area looking for a composition I liked so when I finally saw this one I was in such a rush to compose it before missing this light I made the decision to shoot it with my telephoto lens on. I remember thinking as I looked through the viewfinder to compose it, “Oh! this is nice I can zero in on this part of the marsh rather than getting all in.” By doing so the ducks have a little more body, and the reeds and willows are nearer, so we can see more texture and detail. The whole scene is compressed so we feel a closer connection to the pond.
I haven’t used my telephoto to shoot a landscape in many months, and if the light wasn’t changing fast I probably would have switched to my favorite 17-35mm wide angle lens. In retrospect I’m happy that I didn’t take the few seconds to change lenses as it was a good reminder for me that not all landscapes need to be a sweeping vista, or shot with a wide-angle lens.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300mm VR@ 102mm| f10| 1/250 second| ISO 640| Manual Mode| Tripod
Sunset on the Marsh
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This was a lovely ending to another exciting day of birding in the Pacific Flyway.
Nikon D300s| Nikkor 1735 @ 32mm| f16| 0.8 sec| ISO 160| manual mode| tripod
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