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Post-Sunset Geese. San Joaquin Valley, California. January 11, 2018. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Winter geese fly toward San Joaquin Valley wetlands after sunset
These days photographing wild birds in California's Central Valley are frequently long. For me they begin about three hours before dawn, when I awake to a (very) early alarm, grab coffee and a bit of food, load my vehicle, and start out on a two-hour drive in the darkness. As I approach my destination the first color is coming to the sky above the Sierra, that is if tule fog doesn't reduce visibility to 100 feet or so! I pull in about a half hour before sunrise, set up camera equipment, and begin to work. At first I may make some landscape photographs, since it is often still too early to handhold the camera for bird photography, but soon the first birds fly up from the ponds. I usually spend the next three hours of so photographing birds and landscape — though the precise time varies depending on the conditions — and then I take a break in the middle of the day. By mid-afternoon I'm back, looking for evening photographic opportunities, and the pace of the work increases as sunset approaches. During the last few minutes of light a lot happens quickly, and then I photograph until the light is gone.
I made this photograph during that late period, following sunset, when lingering light colored the thin clouds above the western mountains. (My home lies beyond those mountains, a two-hour drive away.) Around sunset there is a period of coming and going by the birds. Geese may rise up from ponds and fly away, or flocks may arrive from distant points and settle in for the night. Often great flocks of cranes arrive just after sunset. The birds in this photograph are geese, most likely Ross's geese, approaching the wetland ponds from that western sunset sky.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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Sunset I saw while driving around in ontario, near Ottawa. I particularly like the cow posing for the picture.. :)
Last nights sunset just along the road from home. I had intended to go out and experiment with welding glass, but that failed and this arrived instead :o)
Canon 450d, Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6, 1/6th second, 11mm, f/11, ISO100, Hitech 0.9 ND grad.
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Shot taken during my short holiday in Ronchi,Tuscany,Italy.
I really love sunset like this. The waiting time for it was totally repaid: a pleasure for the eyes.
Last nights sunset was lovely everything went pink!! I got so excited about it as its been a while since a good one. Well worth the hour and a half to download and the 10.30pm walk to see it!!
I was visiting a friend near Palmyra, Missouri today and on the way home I snapped some shots of the awesome sunset. This was taken somewhere in Marion County, Missouri.
*QUESTION: At the end of one of the sun rays is a lens flare. My question is.. is this unacceptable in any photograph? I know I'd prefer it wasn't there but I didn't want to ruin the picture by removing it so for now it remains. But if I were wanting to enter this in a contest or something.. would that be something that would be frowned upon in the professional photography world? My photoshop skills aren't that developed. I try to teach myself but it's a slow process. Thank you for any input or advice. I really appreciate it!
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After a week of shooting sunsets every night in the same spot... I learned so much so fast... a really challenging experience... but I finally got a few shots that I felt confident with, that even made me go WOW. So if this, or any of my photos make you go WOW... WOAH... THATS AMESOME... WHERE IS THIS????
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Sunset at Crescent Beach.
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