Landscape Photography
After sunrise, but before full sun, getting a good shot can be ‘interesting’. Too many times there isn’t enough light. But here the water acted like a reflector and held some of the sunrise colors.
Technically I should have tried for more light, maybe exposure compensation. Glad I didn’t since I would have washed the shot of color.
This is a hard place to photograph around dawn. The sun is usually hidden off behind the tree line, everything else is still dark.
The wooden trunk (water gate) was open and flowing so I had hoped a white bird would show up for some interest. No bird so I did the best I could.
A view from the middle of the Hog Island road, in a wildlife management area.
At the end is hundreds of acres of marshland. However, this is not a park and in fall the grasses and reeds are twice as tall as a person. I couldn’t see much.
BTW, at the end here we are always careful. This is one of the few places a large Alligator is openly a aggressive.
This prompted us to stop rather than continue to a larger open marsh area.
These stylized images were not what I had planned. All I wanted was the right angle to capture both birds together.
They both posed and preened, I kept shooting. I finally ended with so many I chose the final photographs at random.
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Too often I drive right through on this road in and out of the marshes. Today I stopped and got out.
Another ‘what I saw’.
Donnelley, Wildlife Management Area.
We were 15 minutes late when we got to the marsh.
There isn’t much margin for error with the sun, but we did reach the first open water in time.
