Tag: sunset

Sunset photography

  • Spin Cycle

    Spin Cycle

    I am overwhelmed. I struggle to keep up. It is hard to keep faith. If I had a towel I would surely throw it in. Signs of a well executed plan. Flood the zone. Drain the brain. Laugh whenever plebeians complain. 

    I am done laughing.I can no longer maintain.

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 23 February 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1735
    • Tripod: No
    • Exposure: One at 1/13 seconds panned left to right

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  • Hulk On High

    Hulk On High

    You are stronger than you might think you are.

    —Hulk

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 23 February 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1740
    • Tripod: Yes
    • Exposures: Seven merged to HDR
  • No Focus

    No Focus

    Soothing pastel colors pop up at a bayside sunset. Photographed at 35mm with motion blur created by intentional handheld left to right movement.
    No Focus — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/15 sec

    Place pastels upon your palette and cue the music the sunset show is begun. Grab a big old dry brush and move your paints across your canvas with speed. Be confident in your motion; haste, but don’t waste. It’s your heart and mind funneling down the arm and into your hand summoning magic unto the page. You are an artist, and you’re doing great.

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 18 January 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1650
    • Tripod: No
    • Exposures: One @ 1/15 seconds

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  • For You

    For You

    My evening gift for you all to chase away the Sunday scaries—a Dock Road sunset from just over a week ago. A high quality winter burn. Enough of the deck painted up in pastel hues to really crank up the glow highlighting the sedge. For but five minutes time suspends as though weightless and the dormant brown super charges in a pink infusion. As if Goku himself were powering up. Palpable vibes. 

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 26 January 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Overcast
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1700
    • Tripod: Yes
    • Exposures: Seven

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  • Back?

    Back?

    The ice returns and is that some inspo sliding in on it? Ever since I was a kid winter has owned my curiosity. Forever my favorite weather, the cold and snow continue to demand my attention. It’s like the first time, every time.

    So it should come as no surprise that when the salt marsh turns frozen the urge to get outside explodes. To my camera and the marsh I go. Only this time a proper stop further.

    For the first time since December 2020 (five years!) I am publishing a photo from Great Bay Boulevard. Once part of a steady rotation it’s been a casualty of a stalled hobby. For the first time in years, thoughts of making photos land upon my brain. It’s happening several times per week, easy, and usually in the shower. Where once there was desert, there are no motes of water, frozen as it may be. As for GBB, it was awesome to be back, and I am starting to feel I may be back.

  • Dockside

    Dockside

    35mm sunset photograph of aged dockside pilings and a thick old faded yellow rope.
    Dockside — 35mm | f/2 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/60

    It’s been a long cold winter. It’s January 20. Here’s a fireside:

    • 2025? How?
    • I miss photographs
    • I miss writing
    • More so I miss sharing both with you all
    • Elden Ring consumes all—but mostly me
    • The Dodgers are building a juggernaut
    • I worry for our world
    • I am grateful for new teammates
    • There’s something about big old timeworn ropes and the stories they tell

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  • Warm Fuzzy

    Warm Fuzzy

    35mm sunset photo taken at Cedar Run Dock Road salt marsh. South facing exposure panning left to right creates smooth motion blur across the image.
    Warm Fuzzy — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/50

    Hobby more.

    Connect more.

    Live.

    Grow.

    Hope.

    Strive.

    Exercise and breathe.

    Eat the good food. Laugh. Dream again. Be better for all of us.

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  • On the Fringe

    On the Fringe

    14mm HDR photo of a sunset over Cedar Run Dock Road's salt marsh. Tropical Storm Ophelia spun overrunning cirrus clouds as the storm's outer bands approached the mid-Atlantic coast.
    On the Fringe — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    Socked in on a Saturday. 23 September 2023 at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Tropical Storm Ophelia dumps heavy rains across the mid-Atlantic buffeting southern Ocean County, NJ, with steady winds. I’m hoping my LBI friends are managing the storm surge. As for me, I sit comfortably at my large oaken desk watching this week’s Nintendo Voice Chat on YouTube while typing to you, Internet friends.

    This here sunset photo looks back to Thursday when the outer fringes of Ophelia first spun up high level cirrus clouds over the region. This high cloud deck brought a fine end of day light show over Cedar Run Dock Road’s salt marsh. A fiery of sign of the weather to come. Of course, Friday’s burn managed to one up this but I wasn’t out to capture it. I was busy scarfing down hibachi for those looking for the but why no picture, Greg? rationale.

    I hope you’re all weathering out the storm in the safety of home, surrounded by friends and family. It’s the perfect kind of day to kick back under covers to watch The Lord of the Rings. I also recommend having some soup, stew, or braise going. Tis the season, y’all. Be safe, and be well.

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  • Take Leave

    Take Leave

    14mm wide angle HDR sunset packed with cotton candy pastel clouds reflected over the late summer salt marsh.
    Take Leave — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    Take leave
    pay heed
    Hear your body take time to breathe

    Unwind
    free mind
    In the moment your soul will find

    Destress
    full press
    Permit yourself the chance to rest

    Be still
    free will
    Heal your heart and hope will fill

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