Once More Unto the Breach
This is the dying light of a spectacular sunset at Antelope Island Utah, near Salt Lake City. A recent road trip with Kevin Benedict around Utah had us chasing sunrise and sunset in a variety of awesome locations handpicked by Kevin, with mostly disappointing results. On nearly every day we had perfect looking conditions only to have our hopes crushed at the last minute by some wayward cloud on the horizon blocking out the sun. This day, however, we experienced the opposite - almost entirely cloudy all day with a sudden break at sunset. The sunset colors appeared all around us, making it difficult to chose which direction to shoot in. Finally, it settled in the west with a beautiful glow silhouetting this lineup of hills across Great Salt Lake (I do not know which hills we are looking at here).
The quoted title is from the Shakespeare play "Henry V", with King Henry trying to motivate his troops to attack the enemy castle one more time. Our fearsome foe on this night were the mosquitos, which were out in such great numbers that they literally formed walls along the sides of the causeway leading to the island. It took some considerable courage to breach their defenses with a charge down to the beach where they were fewer in number. Very fortunately, they did not seem to be in a biting mood, settling for hovering in the thousands above our heads with an angry hum. If they had been hungry, I'm fairly certain our bleached bones would still be resting on the beach.
This shot was taken a good 30 minutes after sunset, and we were already packing up to go when we noticed the cloud tendrils adding some interesting detail to the remaining light, so I hurriedly popped my camera back on the tripod and fired one last shot. Most of the frame was dark with just this thin layer of backlight so I decided to crop to a wide pano style emphasizing this golden backlight. Taken with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 70-200mm F2.8 lens using "Pixel Shift".
My thanks to Kevin for his expert arrangement of our itinerary. I'd never heard of Antelope Island but it turned out to be a perfect ending to our tour de Utah.
Once More Unto the Breach
This is the dying light of a spectacular sunset at Antelope Island Utah, near Salt Lake City. A recent road trip with Kevin Benedict around Utah had us chasing sunrise and sunset in a variety of awesome locations handpicked by Kevin, with mostly disappointing results. On nearly every day we had perfect looking conditions only to have our hopes crushed at the last minute by some wayward cloud on the horizon blocking out the sun. This day, however, we experienced the opposite - almost entirely cloudy all day with a sudden break at sunset. The sunset colors appeared all around us, making it difficult to chose which direction to shoot in. Finally, it settled in the west with a beautiful glow silhouetting this lineup of hills across Great Salt Lake (I do not know which hills we are looking at here).
The quoted title is from the Shakespeare play "Henry V", with King Henry trying to motivate his troops to attack the enemy castle one more time. Our fearsome foe on this night were the mosquitos, which were out in such great numbers that they literally formed walls along the sides of the causeway leading to the island. It took some considerable courage to breach their defenses with a charge down to the beach where they were fewer in number. Very fortunately, they did not seem to be in a biting mood, settling for hovering in the thousands above our heads with an angry hum. If they had been hungry, I'm fairly certain our bleached bones would still be resting on the beach.
This shot was taken a good 30 minutes after sunset, and we were already packing up to go when we noticed the cloud tendrils adding some interesting detail to the remaining light, so I hurriedly popped my camera back on the tripod and fired one last shot. Most of the frame was dark with just this thin layer of backlight so I decided to crop to a wide pano style emphasizing this golden backlight. Taken with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 70-200mm F2.8 lens using "Pixel Shift".
My thanks to Kevin for his expert arrangement of our itinerary. I'd never heard of Antelope Island but it turned out to be a perfect ending to our tour de Utah.