The whole point of the sunrise pics is to see the sun rise over the water. Just the water. Nothing else. In that respect, today’s trip was a complete and total failure. Stupid rocks sticking up out of the ocean directly due East of where I was standing.
I took a bunch of sunrise pics at Hampton Beach this morning. Not my best, but not disgusting either. Here are my attempts at long exposures. Anything from one to 30 seconds.
These used my newer lens, the AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
We have a winner!
We have another winner!
At some point I switched lenses to my AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED, which I usually consider to be much better, but today… I think the wider lens did a better job.
Stupid huge boat couldn’t keep still for 10 measly seconds.
My goal, never stated until today and pretty much unachievable, is to catch a sunrise or a sunset from each state that borders an ocean and has a good East or West angle. I have New England covered. Rhode Island and Connecticut both border the ocean, but they both face the wrong direction. Rhode Island has a bay that faces East, but I sort of don’t think that counts. I might change my mind on that though. The goal is to see the sun break the water.
So far we have sunrises in…
Massachusetts:
New Hampshire:
and Maine:
On the sunset side of things, we have California:
That’s four! I’m practically done! WOOHOO
No reason for this, just an excuse to post some pictures.
It’s going to be cold this weekend. Sunrise pics are probably not a good idea…
but…
Why not?
Here’s another long exposure (only 2 seconds this time) from the ocean the other day. Again, in the hopes that it will somehow calm the world down and let me have a day today that does not suck as bad as yesterday. Ouch, babie. Ouch.
Here’s a long exposure shot from the ocean Tuesday morning to try and calm my ass down after a rough day.
I got photobombed by a seagull.
Stupid bird.
I took today off for music purposes, but the forecast called for clear skies so…
What a nerd.
I feel like I should post something but I don’t know what. I was thinking about trying to sneak up to the ocean for some sunrise pics but I’m way too tired. Maybe Sunday morning. We’ll see.
I’ve done it (sunrise pics) at Salisbury Beach, which is in Massachusetts. I’ve done it at Hampton Beach, which is in New Hampshire. It only makes sense that the next one happens in Maine. Old Orchard Beach has a pier that is super cool and would look really good with some long exposure jazz happening in the water around it, but I am not sure that the sun actually rises over water there. The beach is actually in a bay and the land extends out into the water. If the angle is wrong, the sun would actually rise over the land. I spent some time looking at pics tonight both via Flickr and Google Images and it looks like it might be okay some days but not others. Either that or there was a lot of distance between the camera positions on some of those pics. I don’t know. The pier alone probably makes it okay, but if I am going to drive an hour to see the sunrise, I want to see the damn thing rise over the ocean, not the land. I can do that at home.
There. I felt like I should post something and now I have.
