Tag: Sunrise

Goals for the Sun and the Ocean

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:
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New Hampshire:
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and Maine:
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On the sunset side of things, we have California:
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That’s four! I’m practically done! WOOHOO

Old Orchard Beach Sunrise – Long Exposure Edition

I took a bunch of longer exposures today. Most of them came out terrible. There was too much light to leave the shutter open for more than a few seconds. Here are a few of the less disastrous pics.

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Old Orchard Beach Sunrise

I almost didn’t make it. Sunrise was at 6:30am. I left home at about 5:15. When I plugged Old Orchard Beach into Google Maps on my phone it told me I’d get there at 6:33. Uh oh. Fortunately the pre-dawn traffic was non-existent and I was able to shave a few minutes off of that time. Still, when I got to the water I only had a few seconds to spare. The tide was so far out that only the furthest end of the pier was in the water. That meant I could mess around shooting from underneath the pier. It was kinda cool.

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That boat came close to messing up my sunrise shots. He stayed out of the way though. Mostly.
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I wasn’t alone, which sort of surprised me given that it’s November and all. There was one other person running around with a tripod like me, and one who was right on the water’s edge with a cell phone, and one more who was standing on the sidewalk, not quite yet on the beach, flying this thing.
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Yeah, I’m giving up the software industry and getting into the post card business.
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The Amusement Park is shut down for the year. It looks kinda sad.
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Fingers Crossed

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.

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