A sunset from “Height of Land” outside of Rangeley, Maine taken on a camping trip we took over the past week.
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Taking a break from an editing session I walked into the kitchen to get a drink and saw what is a very rare sight in our neck of the woods: a nice sunset. The only problem was the good part was probably about 5 minutes before I saw it. I grabbed a camera that had a lens attached and a tripod (taking no time to find a jacket, but the weather here is back to unseasonably mild), ran out to the river and grabbed a few exposures.
Oh to have been there a few minutes earlier with another lens or two in hand! There are so many good photographs hiding in these frames…
Anyway, as Dewitt Jones says, celebrate what nature gives you – and I do. So here’s a little “fire on the water” from our little corner of the world.
You might be asking “No sunsets?”. Nope. I live right next to a river and, for all it’s beauty when you are next to a river you are, by definition, at the bottom of a valley. To the west from where we are the land rises up, so the sun drops below the horizon a good 30 minutes before it “sets”. Only when the clouds are in the right configuration do we get anything resembling color in our sunsets — and believe me that doesn’t happen very often (like maybe a couple of times a year at the level that these photos are at). Over the past 8 or 9 years I think I only have one other set of images with similar conditions. And now you know why I wish I was thirsty a few minutes earlier!
Canon 5D Mark 2, 16-35mm f/2.8 L at 35mm. 0.6 second exposure at f/11.
No Lightroom adjustments. Nada. Straight out of the camera.
We spent a nice long paddling weekend with friends up at Umbagog Lake. Beautiful weather, but that makes for boring photography. Fortunately there was some nice fog every morning.
More to come on this trip.
