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06-MAY-2009

05/06/09 - Shenandoah Sunrise

Made 8 minutes before sunrise (see here - http://ed-k-photo.smugmug.com/gallery/6988948_kjHp8/1/530656669_uVGPA/Large - for sunrise). If you wait for sunrise to get your shots, you've waited too long. As the saying goes - if you snooze, you lose. I had to get up a little after five to get here for the show. The bad thing about sunrises is that you usually don't know until it's too late whether the "show" is two thumbs up or down. Got up 15 minutes earlier today to drive to another, further away, location - and it was a total dud with black clouds in the eastern sky blocking out any hint of the sun. Oh well, yesterday made up for it. Of several days in the mountains - a total of 2 mornings and 2 evenings - I batted 1 for four. At sunset both evenings you couldn't see 100 feet for the fog & rain.

Nikon D300
1/3s f/16.0 at 120.0mm iso200 full exif

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Tom Briggs04-Jun-2009 16:30
Awesome, Ed ... AWESOME !!! Voted
Dror Yalon29-May-2009 20:48
Wonderful layers composition image. The amazing colours are a bonus.
Dror
DeMorcan12-May-2009 20:39
I saw the start of many days in VA. In fact as an OTR driver, one of my 3 top 3 drives was in VA. But I never saw as beautiful as you have captured it here with the fog creating a magical mystical world. Well done.
waterfalls man09-May-2009 23:19
Beautiful Capture V
Chris Sofopoulos08-May-2009 20:12
Amazing colour and photo! v
Antonis Sarantos08-May-2009 16:34
Very beautiful!
Guest 08-May-2009 12:53
A beautiful image. Makes me sense what "else" is out there.