Is it too soon to start showing signs of cabin fever, or seasonal affected disorder or whatever it’s called?
I’m getting that time-to-move-to-California-and-spend-my-days-busking-on-the-beach frame of minds. The traffic, the weather, the feeling run down, the cold and flu, and general blah are all conspiring against my sanity right now.
And it’s not even officially Winter yet.
Just photoshop a picture of me sitting on the sand strumming my 12-string.
Please?
Usually I don’t go to the ocean for sunrise pics unless the forecast calls for nothing but sun. I don’t want any risk of driving all that way and then not being able to see the sun break the water. After a few successes though, I wanted to try going on a day with some clouds in the hopes of seeing how the sun makes the clouds change color. Sunday’s forecast called for partly cloudy.
It was almost a bust. “Partly” turned out to be “almost completely” except for a little band of sky right on the horizon. If not for that, I would have been screwed. As it was, I only had a few minutes with a visible sun before it hid behind the partly=completely.
My afternoon is turning into a pain in the ass. Here’s another ocean picture to calm my dumb ass down.
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.
Salisbury Beach.
Standard format posts won’t full screen, but image format posts will. Looks like it will only take one image in a post though. Can I use two images in an image post? What about Gallery posts?
Nope, one per post for image and gallery looks exactly like standard. At least when pulling images from the web. It’s probably different for images uploaded to the wordpress.com account.
Oh well. My kingdom for full screen. Ello does it. Medium does it. What the hell is wordpress.com’s problem?
The weather and the timing are appearing to line up tomorrow… might there be a sunrise photo shoot up at Hampton Beach? I haven’t shot a sunrise since November. I’m due.
