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My scout troop camped at the dunes this past weekend. In my tent on Friday night, I could hear the waves pounding in. Saturday turned out to be one of those perfect September days. Warm in the sunshine with a gentle, cooling breeze. I took off for a short excursion while the kids were finishing dinner KP. A small group of folks had brought folding chairs down on the beach to watch the sunset. I headed off along the dunes, looking for a bit of solitude. The sunset on the drive up on Friday night (watching through my rear view mirror, heading east) was particularly spectacular. I was hoping that with the forecast of rain on Sunday, that the approaching front might also make for a beautiful sunset on Saturday evening. I was not disappointed. As the sun was setting, a group of coyotes deep in the dunes to my left yipped and yapped before breaking into a long group howl. Some of them sounded like pups, very enthusiastic and a little bit "off" from the rest of group. 3 image HDR (-2/3, -2 2/3, +1 1/3).
The sun is already swinging its way south for winter, so the famous downtown Chicago skyline visible from the dunes is actually behind the tree on the right. I was able to use this cool website:
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/
to figure out the the sun was actually setting near East Chicago, Indiana from where I was located. It's a cool tool. Try it out.
Taken from the wharf at Flying Fish Cove, beautiful warm evening.
There where a few couples on the beach having a quite glass of vino watching the sun go down.
Nikon D800E + 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 44 mm - 1/25 sec at f/16, ISO 50
Manual mode @ 0 EV E.C - Pattern metering - no flash
Subject Distance: unknown
Deep zoomable image here: zoom.it/jljkY
Clouds moved in on Wednesday afternoon, making views of Crater Lake sparing, at best. I was a bit disappointed, as I really wanted to get another chance at a sunset shot from the north side of the lake. As I was driving back to camp, though, I came across this. With everyone else up on the rim looking at the lake, I got to enjoy this scene for 30 minutes or longer with not one other person around.
4, 7 shot, HDR images make up this panorama.
42°55'56" N 122°10'13" W, 7152.6 ft
Crater Lake Rim Drive
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, United States
Taken on 09.04.2013, uploaded on 09.28.2013.
©2013 Adam James Steenwyk. Please contact me at ajamess [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to use this photo. Blog: www.f128.info
This weeks Before/After Photoblog is the tale of two Sunset edits. Each these I like a lot but for different reasons. Visit the link to see how I edited these and the original photo.
A photo taken while at work one night. I blurred the sides to make it a little dreamy. Taken 8.20.13.