One year ago tomorrow I took some sun rise pics at Old Orchard Beach in Maine.
I thought about going for a second round tomorrow. But the weather’s going to be bad.
Oh well.
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.
I may have mentioned it before, but I want to live in one of those houses that the windows light up when the sun rises. I’m sure that once I move into one of those houses it will not live up to expectations as the first time I walk into an East facing room during the sun rise I will have my retinas burned to a crisp and never see light again for the rest of my days.
Still want to live there though.
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
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.

I feel like I say this every Friday during the Spring, Summer, and Fall, but I want to try and get up early so that I can shoot the sunrise tomorrow. I keep saying it, yet I haven’t done it since November.
So I want to get up super early tomorrow morning (4:30am-ish) and at the same time I want to stay up super late tomorrow night (1:00-2:00am) so that I can try to catch the last Rush show on Periscope (if someone is nice enough to stream it for us). I also want to mow the lawn, clean the bathroom and the kitchen, and take the cat’s litter box outside and hose the ever lovin’ hell out of it.
Could be a super busy day tomorrow.
I might need to take a nap in the afternoon.
That actually sounds like a super awesome idea! Nap time, kids!
This morning when I took my really awful photo101 pic I found three pictures on my camera that I’d forgotten about. All sunrises.
One day last weekend I woke up as the sun was rising and saw the reddest red sky I’d ever seen through the trees behind the house.

The picture failed to even come close.
On our last morning in New York when I woke up to get ready to pack up the car the sunrise out the window looked amazing.

The picture failed to even come close, but…
This one was okay.