Solstice Sunset

To wrap up the solstice day, I headed to Riverside Park to get whatever sunset photos that I could manage. Once again, the sightlines aren't the best, but you do what you can. As in the morning, the sky was cloudless, so all I could photograph was that slight glow as the sun dipped below the trees on the opposite bank.

But first, there was nice golden light and long shadows where I parked the car and began to walk towards the river.

At the river, while I waited for quite awhile for the sun to lower I took this photo with the lady of the dock waiting for her children to finish their paddling. You can see a faint sunset glow on the horizon.

I never did get a photo that I liked in the spot that I had chosen, but before I left the park, I wandered around the edge of the river and found a few shots using framing that I kind of like. The sunset wasn't quite as good as it looks here, but with a little underexposure and that little adjusting of the white (colour) balance, they turned out alright. In fact, I quite like the second one to the point where I think it might be print worthy.

I pointed the camera away from the sunset, or whatever there was of it, towards downtown. The spire of townhall is close to the centre of the frame. Once again, a little underexposure plus saturation makes the photo acceptable.

As I was about to leave, a small boat went by and left some light in its wake. In fumbling around to get the shot, I missed the best of the ripples but caught enough nevertheless.