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One of my first pictures of the new year. Had the rare occasion of having a beach to myself on this night. A wonderful sunset that enveloped the land and sea in a color somewhere between pink and gold, a color there is no name for. Kept the composition simple within the landscape. Wanted reflections of color on the wet sand and kept the point of Avila in clear view between the bend in the larger rocks. Shot this angle for about 20 minutes before moving toward another. A great start for 2014.
This is a long exposure after sunset at Furlong Gulch area on the Sonoma Coast.
Nikon D70 / Tokina 12-24 / Lee .6 Grad
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I just dropped off images for a menu shoot I've been working on for a little while now and needed a change of pace. This was actually a gorgeous sunset at the end of my block in Pismo Beach CA but I still wasn't very amped on the image--thought I'd put it through Silver Efex Pro as I learn the software a bit more--damn it's awesome.
Lightroom 3 > Silver Efex Pro > Color Efex Pro for a small amount of Glow > Lightroom to polish 'er up
-Nikon D7000
-Nikkor 16-35mm/f4
-Really Right Stuff Tripod, Ballhead and L-Plate
-B+W 10 Stop ND Filter
-ISO 100
-16mm
-f11
-23 Seconds
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Taken on October 28th during the very, very minus tide. This guy was under a couple inches of water and I loved those curling "legs".
Near Shell Beach, California
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Nikon D40x
Nikkor 18-55 mm
Tripod
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30 sec.
18 mm
f/32
Iso 100
These two gulls acted as mates, they were searching for a nesting spot, walking together, calling, and bobbing heads. Then one found a tasty treat and brought it up. They seemed to be sharing amicably until the sharer attacked the other. It's as if suddenly the urge to be greedy overcame the urge to share with a mate. I don't believe this was a mating behavior, the one that was attacked was driven off the cliff!
After yesterday I'm definitely going to start renting the 200-400, 500 and 600 to shoot surfers. I'm missing the boat in this area not documenting the talent.
Please view Large on Black. Shell Beach, California, San Luis Obispo County, California. A bench waiting for someone to relax and watch the beautiful sunrise on a rainy Sunday morning. Canon EOS 7d with Canon 10-22mm set at 15mm, ISO 100, f 25.0. 4min 45sec exposure. Singh-Ray Vari-ND Variable Neutral Density Filter (thin mount), plus a B+W 2 stop ND filter, Plus a B+W 3 stop ND filter. Captured on 5/16/2011. Post Processing using ColorEfexPro3.0, Viveza2, Dfine2.0, PhotoTools, Viveza2, Silver Efex Pro and Auto Efex Edges. Did not use HDR Efex Pro or PhotoMatix.
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I'm not really sure where this was. It was taken on a flight from Boston to Miami, and this was the first view of the ocean after coming over Boston Harbor.
We were flying south, or maybe west-by-southwest, but looking sideways out the window would make this a view looking either east or west -- I forget what side of the plane I was on.
That would seem to make this a photo of the coastline somewhere along the southern edge of Massachusetts or maybe Rhode Island, but from skimming over some maps & satellite views, I'm not able to match this up with any of the features I see here, including:
* a round-ish island close to a peninsula at the top-right
* another peninsula (?) at the top-left
* what looks like a river/harbor to the right
* the area near the river/harbor seems to be pretty built up, as does the peninsula next to it, but the interior area in the middle looks more undeveloped
My guess at the time was that we were flying over New Bedford or Fall River, but now I can't make them line up with this view. I was thinking it might be the bottom edge of Newport, RI, but that doesn't look right either. While I do still think it's somewhere along Buzzard's Bay, Narragansett Bay, etc, I've about given up on identifying it, at least for now.
There's a tool out there that can take a photo of the night sky, identify the stars, and plot a map of what constellations its looking at. Is there a similar tool available for looking at land features? If so, that would be awesome.
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Update, 11 Sep 2009: I change my mind. It's New Bedford after all:
* The island at the top is West Island, seen from the north -- note the two north-end peninsulas pointing toward the camerathe west-end harbor on the left, and the bridge to the peninsula at the right.
* The peninsula next to the island seems to be called Silver Shell Beach or Winsegansett Heights.
* The round-ish peninsula at the top-middle is Antassawamock or Shell Beach, with Mattapoisett Harbor to the left of it, and the Mattapoisett town center hugging the inside of the harbor there.
* The feature at the top-left is Nyes Cove & Holly Woods, with the village of Harbor Beach just visible on Aucoot Cove all the way at the left edge of the photo.
* The highly-developed town along the harbor at the right is New Bedford on the Acushnet River. You can see Popes Island in the middle of the river, and the towns of Fairhaven Oxford to the left of the river.
WIth those features in mind, I've pinned this on the map at a point a bit north of all of this, trying to approximate where the plane must have been when the photo was taken, though obviously everything visible in the photo -- this seems to be around 5 miles of coastline, give or take -- is well to the south of where the geotag was placed.
ALL PELICAN SPECIES:
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that makes up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America as well as from polar regions and the open ocean.
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BROWN PELICAN SPECIES:
The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a small pelican found in the Americas. It is one of the best known and most prominent birds found in the coastal areas of the southern and western United States.
This bird is readily distinguished from the American White Pelican by its non-white plumage, smaller size and its habit of diving for fish from the air.
Pelicans are very gregarious birds; they live in flocks of both sexes throughout the year. They are exceptionally buoyant due to the internal air sacks beneath their skin and in their bones, and as graceful in the air as they are clumsy on land. In level flight, pelicans fly in groups, with their heads held back on their shoulders, the bills resting on their folded necks.
When forage, pelicans fly to a considerable height over a school of fish and then dive at a high speed into the water, often completely submerging itself below the surface as it quickly snaps up its prey before it can swim away. The pelican then comes back to the surface and spills the water out of its throat pouch that had been caught in the plunge and then throw back their head to swallow the prey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Pelican
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