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First shot was before sunrise. I think the perspective coulsd have been altered to not make the left side of the boat ramp not so eye catching
The last three were taken just after sunrise as I stood hunched over my tripod facing west focussing on some blooms in the soft morning light when I stood to stretch a little and turned toward the east and this is what i saw.
A frantic dash to change my lens to a longer 80-200 Nikkor and get three shots away (damn you miss a second body!). Three shots of the best of the light as the sun, having risen behind a brewing storm, finally streamed through the thick blanket that shrouded it. The good light lasted only minutes. Tried a couple of different crops and pano style.
I welcome, as always any comments. I'm sorry for the sizing problem I just can't seem to size them so that they view well on flickr. Any suggestions on what I do? I try to keep the largest side at 1200pixels. Either way the images look so tiny compared to my screen once I have sized them for uploading. Usually there about 1200x800 and at 150dpi.




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marco

Lovely stuff Marco, it may have taken some desperate lens changing but you've captured the moment!

Marco I'm as jealous as all get out. One of my photographic holy grails is to get a shot with the fingers of the sun poking their way from the sky to the earth like you've captured in this fine set of images. What with this and the liberties being taken with my L.D.S. photo elsewhere I'm not having a good day

Craig I can't wait for my D200 to arrive it will make these moments a lot less stressful Peter I think it's almost definitely being in the right place at the right time, remebering to get your head up and look around occasionally and getting lucky
Thanks for the comments gentleman and have a great day
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marco

I really enjoyed these...

The first is strangely addictive, the long exposure has worked well for the water lapping the ramp and the exposure of the pier and lights seems nicely balanced, works well...

The rays in the are magical, these are the sky's moments you always try to catch but usually miss, good stuff... The pano's my pick

Cracks me up about the quick change of lens though, it's always a bugger when you notice something out of the corner of your eye and need a different focal length

Oh, dunno if it makes any difference or not, but would re-sizing with 72ppi make any diff?

Thanks for the comments Andrew. I never thought of sizing at 72dpi. There shouldn't be any quality loss with screen resolutions being what they are.Hmm!
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marco