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God rays over the Sierra from 395 just north of Lone Pine
Three shot HDR. Thanks for stopping by critiques always welcome.
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Croatia is a country in Southeast Europe. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Croatia was part of the former Yugoslavia. A population of 4 million, most of whom are Catholics. Zagreb is the capital. Balanced between the Balkans and Central Europe, this country has been passed between rival kingdoms, empires and republics for thousands of years. If there is an advantage to this ongoing disruption, it is in the rich cultural legacy each has left behind. From Venetian palaces, Napoleonic fortresses, Slavic churches, Viennese mansions to socialist sculptures. But most attraction is the coastline with the remarkable clarity of the water and white pebbly beach. Despite being the fastest rising holiday destination in Europe in the past decade, Croatia still doesn't feel overrun by tourists. There are long sandy and winding beaches too, perfect for lazy days. Croatia is a beautiful country to discover many different landscapes. Dubrovnik is according to many one of the most beautiful cities on the Adriatic coast. This city in Croatia is also called the Pearl of the Adriatic. The historic center, or rather the completely walled fortress city of Dubrovnik, is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage. This part is still in a remarkably good condition. A wonderful place to discover on foot, it is a city with a diverse, but also rough past. Remarkably, the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, as well as the various monasteries, palaces and fountains have been preserved. They all tell their own story from the Middle Ages.
Dubrovnik is a city on the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea. The history of the city probably dates back to the 7th century. The old, completely walled fortress town from the thirteenth century is located at the foot of the mountain Srđ. From the immense city walls and towers you can look out over the city and the sea. It's a perfect introduction. Especially at sunset, this is ideal for photographers.
Kroatië is een land in Zuidoost-Europa. Het grenst aan Slovenië in het noordwesten, Hongarije in het noordoosten, Servië in het oosten, Bosnië-Herzegovina en Montenegro in het zuidoosten en deelt een maritieme grens met Italië. Kroatië maakte deel uit van het voormalige Joegoslavië. Een bevolking van 4 miljoen, van wie de meesten katholiek zijn. Zagreb is de hoofdstad. In evenwicht tussen de Balkan en Centraal-Europa, wordt dit land al duizenden jaren doorgegeven tussen rivaliserende koninkrijken, rijken en republieken. De meeste attractie is de kustlijn met de opmerkelijke helderheid van het water en het witte kiezelstrand. Ondanks dat het de afgelopen tien jaar de snelst stijgende vakantiebestemming in Europa is, voelt Kroatië zich nog steeds niet overspoeld door toeristen. Dubrovnik is volgens velen één van de mooiste steden van de Adriatische kust. Deze stad wordt ook wel de 'Parel van de Adriatische Zee' genoemd. De compleet ommuurde vestingstad van Dubrovnik, staat op de lijst van Werelderfgoed van UNESCO. Dit deel is nog in een opvallend goede staat. Een heerlijke plek om te voet te ontdekken. Opvallend genoeg zijn de gotische, renaissance en barokke kerken, maar ook de diverse kloosters, paleizen en fonteinen bewaard gebleven. Ze vertellen allemaal een eigen verhaal uit de Middeleeuwen. De vestingstad uit de dertiende eeuw ligt aan de voet van de berg Srđ. Vanaf de immense stadsmuren en torens kijk je uit over de stad en de zee. Het is een perfecte introductie. Met name bij zonsondergang is dit ideaal voor fotografen.
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On this early morning shoot at Porthcurno, the rain clouds blew away for a soft, pastel sunrise - complete with a few God-rays!
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 32mm | Æ/16 | 1/6 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | 2 stop ND & ND soft grad filters | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at Porthcurno on 31-10-2021
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Another one from Gunwalloe earlier this month (more to follow)...
As the sun began to set, it's light threw crepuscular rays from behind the clouds.
I was shooting wide, but to make these rays more prominent in the frame, I zoomed from 24mm to 35mm in order to compress the distance and effectively make the light show a little more prominent.
And, just as I normally do with scenes like this, I slowed the shutter a little to capture the movement of the sea as the waves crashed and withdrew around the rocks.
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 35mm | ƒ/16 | 0.5 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | 2 stop hard grad ND & 3 stop ND filters | Taken 05-12-2020 at Gunwalloe
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we were at the end of Conkle's Hollow in Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio, taking our turn at these falls and i was set up about a foot off the ground for the perspective desired, when I saw the refraction on my viewer. So with a little moving around the angle of the lens to the sun I was able to get the full spectrum of color.
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215b 4 - _TAC6743 - ps-wm - John 1.4-5 frame
Giant streaks!
Yes, those sunrays are real. It happens when morning sun tries to reach the ground through the tallest trees on earth, lighting up the smooth flowing fog in the process.
This is a typical scene in Redwoods National Park during early summer when there is abundance of fog. The redwood trees are some of the tallest and oldest leaving organisms on earth which actually use the fog droplets to survive!
From Wikipedia: "Crepuscular rays (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays, splintered light, or god rays), in meteorological optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the Sun is located. Shining through openings in clouds (particularly stratocumulus[citation needed]) or between other objects such as mountains, these columns of sunlit scattering particles are separated by darker shadowed volumes. Despite seeming to converge toward the light source, the rays are essentially parallel shafts of sunlit and shadowed particles. Their apparent convergence is a visual illusion from linear perspective. This illusion is the same as railway lines or long hallways appearing to converge at a distant vanishing point.
Seen on the Tasman Sea.
Lucky again! This made it into flickr Explore on 7 February 2019, the second of two Explore photo from me on the same day, I'm amazed and truly grateful to everyone, many thanks
I spent a ridiculous amount of time in post pro trying to adequately convey a lighting situation that turned out to be an extremely taxing one. This is as close as I could get to replicate a light variant that I had never encountered before.
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Self indulgence warning, stoked to have this picture featured in Februray 2017's Outdoor Photography Mag (UK)
Kawatiri Shoal being the northern sand spit (formerly North Spit) at Macquarie Heads on Tasmania's west coast, AKA Hells Gates. Ocean Beach under the god rays, curving away to the north west and Trial Harbour.
On a stormy night in August 1907, the Clyde-built, SS Kawatiri (107.5ft., 453 GRT) attempted entrance to Macquarie Harbour on passage from Hobart for Strahan with timber, coal and general cargo, 60 passengers and 22 crew on board.
She struck the north spit and in the immediate confusion of the event, a boat was lowered, taking off the women and children. The struggling boat was eventually swamped, drowning the ship's stewardess and five passengers (four of whom were children). Distressingly among those lost were the lighthouse keeper's wife and child(ren?). The keeper heard their cries for help but was unable to save them.
The same ship had a near miss in similar conditions 7 years earlier, suffering mechanical failure at the entrance but was washed through to safety in the harbour by big seas and the incoming tide.
Leica Q2 Monochrom, Summilux 28mm f/1.7, 1/1250th sec at f/7.1, ISO 200. Red filter.
Full size - make it big :-)
I was pretty much in awe the afternoon Scotch and I spent at the Petrified Forest National Park--in part because the amazingly large cloud formations that were just as impressive in scale as the actual landscape and the unknown of exploring a National Park for the first time--but I was pretty disappointed the park "closed" at 5pm. Despite the heavy storm clouds in most directions, the wind kept them moving along, occasionally allowing the sun to poke through. Unfortunately most of the sights I saw as we headed towards the exit are in my head and not a memory card.
Around 4:40pm, I realized we were supposed to go 24 more miles before the park's 5pm deadline to leave. A few times I slowed down and tried my best to fire off some decently in focus shots but I did come to a complete stop on occasion when the situation warranted it. I can't say I saw too much of the sunset through the clouds as we tried to cover some ground before it got too dark. I basically didn't have cell service in the Park and didn't want to get stuck somewhere. I can say that once I exited and parked, i did get to enjoy the final few seconds of red sky before it was pitch black out. I really do hope to return again one day, only earlier in the morning and better prepared.
Petrified Forest National Park
near Holbrook, Arizona
December 23rd, 2015
windchill: 32°F
wind: 26mph
time: 5:05pm
SETTINGS:
Canon Rebel T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@50mm
ISO 100
f/11
1/50th second
Sunlight breaks through dark clouds over Abu Dhabi, casting dramatic rays across the city as the sky clears after a rare rainstorm.
OLYMPUS OM-D E-M5 + 12-40mm F2.8
Ave María, Ave María
Gratia plena Madre Sancta
Gratia plena, oohh!
Oh Madre Sancta
From Sarah Brightman & Fernando Lima
天使光
北山海堤, 金門
Jesus Rays, Kinmen
Crepuscular rays light the mountains on a late winter day near Haines Junction, Yukon Territories, Canada.
13/03/16 www.allenfotowild.com
Rough Ridge, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, NC
This was taken on Thanksgiving morning last year. Photographically it looked like a real dud of a day until a wide crack opened in the clouds and then the rays came through in grand fashion.
Lake Biwa and Chikubu island.
Located : Nishihama, Makino-cho, Takashima-shi, Shiga pref.
奥琵琶湖と竹生島 / 滋賀県高島市マキノ町西浜
I took this a couple of years ago but never really felt like processing it. Then it just kind of jumped out at me from the "to be processed" pile today. I'm still not sure about it, but I do remember feeling how amazing the light was when I was photographing the scene. This is in Silver Falls State Park.
Located on the north shore of the Portuguese island of Madeira, I found the towering sea stacks of Ribeira da Janela as picturesque as the iconic stacks found in Vik off the coast of Iceland. Pointy and vertical when viewed up close from the beach, their silhouette is far more fin-shaped on their west face as seen here. Starting out clear and sunny at sunrise, this turned out to be one of those magical mornings with ever changing light as the clouds slowly built up, each curve in the road revealing new compositions of the island’s rugged coastline. Fortunately, this was one of the few pull-outs to view Madeira’s towering cliffs, accentuated by illuminated sea spray, sparkling reflections and dramatic crepuscular rays, and I was thrilled to capture this scene that was so high contrast, it almost didn’t require a monochrome edit, almost completely devoid of color.
I love when I'm looking for one thing, and then find something different.
Here's my nod to Autumn. I am really looking forward to fall color and the return of sunsets to the Bay Area. There has been so much fog this summer!
The mountain forests have in my eyes a far more beautiful flora to offer, than those with us in the flatter country.
we started hiking up the "Laggers" mountain at 2am. While the sunrise was not very special the scene 15 minutes later was breathtaking... needless to say that it was totally worth it getting up so early...
Sproul State Forest
Clinton County
Pennsylvania
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My last trip to Point Mugu featured an amazing sky and I ended up trying to figure out the best ways to capture the impressive sunbeams bursting through the clouds. I had been here for hours shooting both horizon and shoreline long exposures and was hoping to get a mixture of both long and short captures at sunset.
Long Exposure is what I find to be the most relaxing type of photography for me. I really enjoy framing and focusing the shot how I want and then sitting back to enjoy the view while the bulb is open. I end up having to spend very little time looking at the incredible surroundings through the viewfinder.
Conversely, [attempts at] panoramas drives me crazy. I've tried to figure them out on my own through trial and error like everything else, but it just hasn't clicked for me yet. I hate shooting on a tripod in portrait and I hate that the manual settings on my viewfinder won't tilt to portrait. When I shoot in portrait for panoramas, I typically end up panning each frame too close together and making the the focal length a bit too short as well. When I shoot in landscape, I end up with the opposite problems (not enough zoom and too many frames) which creates an ultra wide panorama.
This photo is actually a 4 shot vertical stitched panorama even if maybe it doesn't look like it. I was having a lot of trouble from this vantage on a cliff lining up the camera in vertical and keeping it level enough to match up later in post. I shot one series in portrait and one series in landscape and went back to the long exposures.
Point Mugu Beach
Malibu, California
June 11th, 2016
Canon T4i
4 shot vertical panorama
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@27mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
1/200th second
CPL
a combination of beautiful light peaking through the forest and the blooming heather in The Netherlands
Sunrises confuse me. Panoramas confuse me. With that said, I decided to try and kill 2 birds with one stone and take advantage of a sleepless night.
I've always struggled with insomnia and prefer evening to morning. I'm rarely awake at sunrise, though it's not uncommon for me to fall asleep as it begins. When I do try, I'm normally a little late to arrive and my brain is on sunset by default. It's hard to see things in reverse. I could see the interesting clouds forming from my bed and finally just got up, got my gear together and left without waking the dog.
Panoramas are something I'm just now trying to figure out. Like sunrises, my brain has trouble shooting a panorama in portrait and doing everything at a very awkward angle.
I was the only person at the Hollywood Bowl Overlook when I arrived and I only had about 5 minutes of great sky and light before the haze crept in. This is a 3 shot stitched panorama from the Hollywood sign to the edge of the rising sun.
Hollywood Bowl Overlook
Los Angeles, California
April 27th, 2016
6:32 AM
SETTINGS:
Canon Rebel T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@74mm
ISO 100
f/11
1/100th second
CPL
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📍 Porthbeer Cove 🌊
The coves and beaches on Lizard Peninsula are my favourite coastal locations this time of year. It seems to be the ideal place locally to catch sunrises and sunsets.
I has discovered Porthbeer Cove, near Coverack, a year ago. At the time I bagged some decent photos and vowed to return.
On this visit, as the sun ascended through thick cloud, it broke through - casting crepuscular rays. To make the most of the sun rays, I zoomed the lens to 55mm to compress the perspective and effectively make the distant sky more prominent. A slow shutter speed captured the movement of the waves.
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 55mm | ƒ/20 | 1/4 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | ND filter | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at Porthbeer Cove on 19-12-2021
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