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:

New Hampshire:

and Maine:

On the sunset side of things, we have California:

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.

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.

That boat came close to messing up my sunrise shots. He stayed out of the way though. Mostly.

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.

Yeah, I’m giving up the software industry and getting into the post card business.

The Amusement Park is shut down for the year. It looks kinda sad.

Yet Another Sunrise

I was on the road at 5:15am to drive 77 miles to see a sunrise in Maine. Yes, I am a dork.

Shameless Flickr Post

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?

Obligatory

It’s that time of year. The time when the sun comes up right when I’m passing this spot on Canobie Lake, and I HAVE to snap a pic. I thought about bringing my D90 along today. Now I wish I had.

Another Sunrise Pic

Why another sunrise? Because it’s another photography day. The Missus and I are going North for some foliage. It’s early in the season so we are going waaaaay North.

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.