Saturday, September 12, 2015

Sunrise at Blakeney

I arose early yesterday morning and decided to drive up to Blakeney to see if I could get some sunrise photos. Truth be told, I almost always arise stupidly early these day, but I am usually too lazy to bother going out. Yesterday, I forced myself.

I found a spot where I could approach the river to the right of the bridge and navigated my gimpy way down the slope. This was the first photo that I took. It is an HDR (amalgam of 4 exposures). I didn't need to process this as an HDR, but I just do it sometimes because ...


You can see from the foreground that I was on a slight rocky incline, and I decided to go right down to the water's edge for the next photo. I processed this one a little more darkly and vividly. I think I like it better, but perhaps not as my opinion changes from one viewing to the next.


Somewhere between that photo and the next, I had a little mishap; the remote trigger that I was using took a tumble into the water. Right now, it is sitting in a bowl of rice to dry out; my fingers are crossed, but I really don't expect it to work again.

Anyway, I turned around a little to take a shot back toward the bridge. It doesn't have the same light as the other two photos, but I kind of like the composition, and the reflections are good as is the lead-in from the rocks to the left.


I was prepared to stay and take photos of the actual reserve area on the other side of the bridge, but the sun was too low to give me much interesting light over there, so I headed home.

11 comments:

Vicki Lane said...

These are beautiful! I need to haul my lazy self out of bed earlier and go in search of some good sunrise pictures that aren't always from our front porch.

Bernie said...

You could frame and hang all of these John, beautiful all of them.

ADRIAN said...

Very Impressive.

Linda Kay said...

Those are truly wonderful photos. Now go to Shutterfly or one of the photo processors, have the picture sized just like you want it, then order it to frame for your wall or for a gift. Anyone would be thrilled. The reflections on the last one are awesome.

Kathleen's Blog said...

OMG!!!! These sunrise pics make mine look like a child took them---this is breathtaking!!!! I can just imagine sitting there for quite awhile, sipping good, strong, hot coffee and munching on some huge homemade muffins!!
Thanks for sharing these :)

TexWisGirl said...

oh, i like that first one! gorgeous! mysterious yet peaceful.

Jackie said...

These photos "speak" to me in so many ways.
Works of art, they are.
Beautiful!!

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

Scenes like this make waking up early and getting out all worth the effort beautiful sunrise shots, John.
And, going home for breakfast even batter.

Ginger said...

Gorgeous photos, AC. I love the early morning light, and you captured the mood so beautifully.

EG CameraGirl said...

Well, I often wake up early too and here's proof that I need to force myself to go out with my camera!

Mage said...

That top one is good stuff.