sunrise/sunset BRING IT!

[false_Aesthetic]

Heya,


These are, perhaps, one of the most cliché images out there.

Let's see what ya got!


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Efke 25 with B+W 3.0 ND in Pyro PMK.
Fujinon CM-W 125. f22 and 16.

[Daniel_Buck]

two weekends ago. 135 Symmar with Tri-x 320, and unbelievably strong wind at my back!

Malibu CA:

http://www.buckshotsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/4x5_topenga_04.jpg

[David A. Goldfarb]

Let's see how many B&W sunsets we can get before the "vulgarity" (as Walker Evans said) of color intrudes.

Maui--

http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb/temp/lo-stress.jpg

[mrladewig]

Alpenglow lights Pikes Peak

Fuji 210 -W @f16 1/8th on Provia with 3 stop hard GND

[mrladewig]

Let's see how many B&W sunsets we can get before the "vulgarity" (as Walker Evans said) of color intrudes.

Maui--


The answer is three.

[roteague]

Alpenglow lights Pikes Peak

Fuji 210 -W @f16 1/8th on Provia with 3 stop hard GND

That was my backyard, when I was growing up.

[ljb0904]

The answer is three.

Similar to the number of licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop! :D

[Dick Hilker]

This was made at a nearby marina on Cape Cod, MA.

[mrladewig]

Similar to the number of licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop! :D

Exactly Laurent!

And isn't that the good part?:D

[lenser]

8891

Tetons near Jenny Lake Lodge.

[Hugo Zhang]

I should have cropped the first one. Oh, well. Both are sunrises.

[Struan Gray]

Camas Coille and Rubha Coigeach

[Brian Vuillemenot]

Waccamaw River, South Carolina... hope it's not too "vulgar" for you B&W guys!

[Bill_1856]

Excuse me, but how low can a forum go?

[walter23]

Excuse me, but how low can a forum go?

What?

[walter23]

http://ashphotography.ca/zenphoto/albums/victoria08/Untitled-3.jpg

[Don Boyd]

I new that there is a reason that I have never printed this or shown it to anyone! El Requeson, Baja California, Sur.

[mrladewig]

Holy inferno Dan!

[David A. Goldfarb]

Excuse me, but how low can a forum go?

Watch out, Bill, cats are next.

[Alan Davenport]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/250827407_ac96940bfe_o.jpg
Bandon, Oregon
SA 90/8 on E100SW

[fireallconsuming]

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v164/27/47/162900312/n162900312_30186954_3930.jpg

[Sheldon N]

I'll toss in another Bandon, OR sunset shot... :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/2096770268_3ae7c16171_o.jpg

150mm APO Sironar-S on Provia 100F

[Vaughn]

Taken at Dawn...not a whole bunch of sun rising this morning, though.

Lone Ranch Beach, Oregon, during a minus tide.

4x5 negative...scanned silver gelatin print
Gowland PocketView, 150mm

Vaughn

[Alex Wei]

sunset
http://www.pbase.com/highpeak/image/91159790.jpg

[dominikus bw]

nice pictures everyone...
here is my sunrise, made with Sinar F1, Fujinon W 135, TMY 400.

[Ralph Barker]

Watch out, Bill, cats are next.

I thought I had an image of a cat watching a sunrise, but can't find it at the moment. ;)

[Rory_5244]

Gorgeous shot, Sheldon.

[Edwin Beckenbach]

Los Angeles Basin, January 17th 2008.
8x10 crop, 120mm, 0.45 center filter, Velvia 100F
Double exposure 1) f22 1/2, 4 minutes (city lights ~5:00am) 2) f22 1/2, 30 sec (sky ~6:30am)

[Amund BLix Aaeng]

Yesterdays sunset
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2024/2212428052_672613e9dc_o.jpg

[Brian Bullen]

Amund, what a wonderful interpretation of this scene, refreshing and beautiful!

[Jiri Vasina]

Amund, you really do have an eye. That is wonderful. I really love that one.

[Amund BLix Aaeng]

Thank you Brian and Jiri. :)

[David_Senesac]

http://www.davidsenesac.com/slideshows/Upcoming/sunset_orange.jpg

Exceptional cloud underlit sunset on an unnamed face of avalanche chutes and clouds above, John Muir Wilderness August 2007, 4x5 Provia 100F through my 150mm Nikor.

Like most people I too have spent a lot of time capturing images dawn/sunrise/sunset/dusk. Some with the rising/setting sun in the pic, some with light on the sky, and some with the light on the landscape as this. Today most of the material ones sees marketed publicly has been altered from reality especially with post processing tools. The bar would be really high even without manipulation. That is fine with me as long as photographers are up front and honest about what they have done. Unfortunately few are so today instead subscribing to the no comment status quo. Some obviously tend to resent the fact I'm one to bring the subject up regularly on web communities reminding them. Thus the public tends to have little trust in what they see these days with this arguably most cliche subject. Because of that I have removed warm light sky/cloud material from my site gallery simply because I'd rather show the material in person and allow people to ask me about the images one on one. ...David

[tgtaylor]

Here's a couple of unusal ones:

Sunset at Land's End Beach, San Francisco 9321

and Sunset at Pirates Cove 9323

Note: Both locations are within 10 miles from each other. Except for a ND filter at exposure (a little heavy in the Pirates Cove image I'm afraid), no post exposure enhancement was used. Both are straight scans on an Epson 3200.

All the Best,

Thomas

[Eugene van der Merwe]

With me being a bit too lazy for sunrises, here are a pair of sunsets...
Llandudno: Cambo sc23, SA 47mm f8, 0.9 and 0.6 ND grads, velvia 100
Sequoia sunset: Ebony sv45ti, Nikkor sw 75mm f4, 0.6 ND grad, velvia

[ljsegil]

From the summit of Mauna Kea, sunset, happened too fast to take notes on how I was shooting, but it is Velvia 50 on a Linhof MT. I know it's not terribly out of the ordinary, but I kind of like the way the way it worked out despite me.
LJS

[Kirk Keyes]

http://www.keyesphoto.com/Resource/Kdk0014Mt_Cavell_450x345.JPG

Mt. Edith Cavell and Athabasca River. Sunrise.

[John Berry]

24" red dot 4x5 back on provia.

[C Henry]

With me being a bit too lazy for sunrises, here are a pair of sunsets...
Llandudno: Cambo sc23, SA 47mm f8, 0.9 and 0.6 ND grads, velvia 100
Sequoia sunset: Ebony sv45ti, Nikkor sw 75mm f4, 0.6 ND grad, velvia


Both images are wonderful.
When I lived in CT, I spent a lot of time photographing on the rocks between camps bay and llandudno - beautiful sunsets.

[lostcoyote]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/1808630023_f1e7da63d0_o.jpg

[Jack Brauer]

http://www.widerange.org/images/large/lagoTresSunrise.jpg

[Jiri Vasina]

Jack, VERY well done. You must have been freezing there...

[Ben Chase]

Jack, VERY well done. You must have been freezing there...

Yes - that is awesome.

[jgunderson]

Grand Teton National Park
Provia 100F

http://www.wyominglandscapephotography.com/images/photos/teton_winter_sunrise.jpg

[Joanna Carter]

How about this one; Liverpool in the background, this is Perch Rock lighthouse at the end of the Wirral peninsula.

[gari beet]

Here's a couple, same background from 2 locations. The picture is of Duart castle, seat of the Clan McClean on the Isle of Mull. The second image is from Duart bay, some 300m from my apartment when I lived on the Island.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m131/gari_01/90f94ef0.jpg
View from Craignure bay, looking down the sound of mull to Oban. Cold Autumn Morning.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m131/gari_01/Mull0017.jpg
The Hill behind is Ben Cruachan, known as the hollow mountain due to it having a hydro station under the mountain. Can be seen in both images.

Gari

[kev curry]

Gari, I was on the summit of a snow and sun smothered Ben Cruachan last Sunday.... Beautifully clear views over to Ben More on Mull......fantastic.

[gari beet]

Hi Kev, where are you based? I am going to Glencoe on Thur, via GlenUre tomorrow, to shoot the end of the day looking into Glen Etive.

If you ever fancy a trip out...

Gari

[kev curry]

Gari I'm Based in Johnstone very close to Paisley. I've never been to Glenure. I know Glen Etive well enough though....I've done a few rock routes on the Etive Slabs.....One of my goals in this life is to make a few meaningful photographs in Glen Coe......I'm planning a good number of trips into them there hills this year. Need to get up onto the Aonach Eagach Ridge when good lights happening..... I'll drop you a line when I'm in your neck of the woods......

[roteague]

http://www.widerange.org/images/large/lagoTresSunrise.jpg

Patagonia??? Stunning is the only word I can use to describe it.

[Rory_5244]

Certainly looks like Patagonia.

[Jack Brauer]

Patagonia??? Stunning is the only word I can use to describe it.

Thank you! Yes this is Patagonia... El Chaltén, Argentina to be precise. This is probably my favorite shot from my month of backpacking/shooting down there recently.

[ljb0904]

Sunset in the sonoran desert, how cliche does this get? Still pretty though :-)

http://homepage.mac.com/mrljb/newwork/lf2007_040_01p.jpg

[tgtaylor]

Thank you! Yes this is Patagonia... El Chaltén, Argentina to be precise. This is probably my favorite shot from my month of backpacking/shooting down there recently.

That's a great photo Jack! Is it of Mt. Fitz Roy?

Thomas

[Sanjay Sen]

Sunset in the sonoran desert, how cliche does this get? Still pretty though :-)


It may be cliched, but so what?! I like it. :)

[Daniel_Buck]

Rodenstock 360mm, f45 with rear tilt, 1/2 second and no filter.
http://www.buckshotsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/charmlee_8x10_03.jpg

[TimRoscoe]

Ya got me:
11555

[Colin Graham]

nice pictures everyone...
here is my sunrise, made with Sinar F1, Fujinon W 135, TMY 400.

That's wonderful Dominikus, very nice.

[Zach In Israel]

Sinar F1, 150mm caltar lens, on Fuji Velvia
I'm a total newby at LF shotting, this is one of my first 10 shots on a LF camera, and I'm pretty happy with it.
http://http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11564&d=1207235969

[Brian Bullen]

Daniel, I love your shot. Thanks for posting it.

[ljsegil]

Two attempts, neither particular original, but I hope I'm learning. Both Velvia 50, Master Technika, the first with a Fuji 600-T, the second a Fuji-A 240. Suggestions welcomed.
LJS

[evan clarke]

Here's one..Evan Clarke

[ljsegil]

Maybe getting better? Northern Wisconsin sunrise over Big Spider Lake, Wehman 8x10, Fujinon A 240, Kodak E100VS (the film made the colors, not PS).
LJS

[GSX4]

One from the Michigan gathering at Bill Schwab's last June. The print is lightly bleached back, lightly sepia toned and finished in selenium.

[Brian_A]

Another fine image to visit my screen. Once again, awesome image Gsx!

-Brian

[Frank Petronio]

sunset

[Brian_A]

Nice image Frank.. I wish I could see some more detail in the woman, but I guess this isn't digital so HDR is out of the question.

-Brian

[Mick Noordewier]

Hmm, I think Frank got exactly what he was looking for. The silhouette focuses my eye on the subject and the hint of detail in the shadow keeps my interest.

Nicely done.

-Mick

[Brian_A]

I'm sure he did or he wouldn't have posted it. I was merely stating my opinion.

[Nigels]

Here is one of mine. Rhue Lighthouse near Ullapool, Scotland.
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3427656-md.jpg
(Ebony RSW, Schneider 150/5.6 APO-Symmar, Fuji Velvia 50, 8secs at f/19)

[Geert]

I might have posted it elsewhere, but here it is (again)

http://fijnefotografie.eu/pics/france/stpabu_67_02.jpg

[Brian_A]

Geert.

That's an amazing shot, imho. Very nice!

-Brian

[Geert]

Geert.

That's an amazing shot, imho. Very nice!

-Brian

Thanks Brian, it needed a lot of work in the darkroom.

G

[Brian_A]

Feel free to send one the many prints I'm sure you made my way :D

[phil sweeney]

http://mysite.verizon.net/shipale/images/sunrise.jpg
not usually after sunrises, but could not resist this one, bad scan too

[Mick Noordewier]

Hi Brian,

Sometimes email/postings convey the wrong tone, and I meant to compliment Frank, not snipe at you. My apologies.

BTW, your posting led me to your web site, which is filled with terrific photos. I'm a sucker for well-done panoramas, and you have very good eye for composition.

-Mick

[Colin Graham]

Phil, that's wonderful. What incredible light.

One from Crescent Bay. 5x12, 360 commercial congo.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2278/2879592566_c7bd498c08.jpg

[cobalt]

Hmmm...

hope nobody minds that this was made with a Pentax 645.

[mikossant]

sunset

[Jiri Vasina]

Those late additions are nice, especially Colin's, Phil's and Geert's...

[Brian_A]

Mick,

It's all good, I take things a bit personally sometimes. Sorry about that. I appreciate you taking a look at my website and having nice things to say about it :D

-Brian


Hi Brian,

Sometimes email/postings convey the wrong tone, and I meant to compliment Frank, not snipe at you. My apologies.

BTW, your posting led me to your web site, which is filled with terrific photos. I'm a sucker for well-done panoramas, and you have very good eye for composition.

-Mick

[ljsegil]

If we can sneak in MF, how about an urban sunrise, Cicero Ave. bridge, just south of Chicago over the Sanitary and Ship Canal, Rollei SL66e, Velvia 50, don't recall lens.
LJS

[jim kitchen]

Great images everyone...

I have seen many sunsets, but I have only captured two images. Go figure... :)

jim k


This was the first.

Sunset and Shrubbery, South and West of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, 1986.

http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkitchen.ca/images/sunsetOkotoks_AB.jpg


This was the second.

Sunset and Sand, White Sands, New Mexico, USA, 1987.

http://largeformatgroupimages.jimkitchen.ca/images/sunsetWhiteSands_NM.jpg

[Steve M Hostetter]

...Cadallac Mountain in Bar Harbor Maine,,, shot on 8x10 fujichrome 210mm 5.6 Super Symmar XL

[Jeffrey Sipress]

California's Central Coast. Ebony SV45U, Sironar S 150mm, Velvia, drum scanned.

http://machinearts.com/fredphotos/sansimeonsunset1.jpg

[jim kitchen]

Dear Jeffrey,

Wow... !

What is a sunset without colour. :)

Which leads to the obvious reason that I only have two images in black and white, after all these years.

jim k

[willwilson]

Sunrise, Death Valley

[Edwin Beckenbach]

Sunset, Los Angeles
Sinar P 8x10, 480mm APO Ronar, f22 1/60th, RAP100F, -1 development

[shadow images]

For some reason that makes me think apocolypse, cool shot.

[Edwin Beckenbach]

For some reason that makes me think apocolypse, cool shot.

Thanks! I took some more over the next several days as the sun set lower over the freeway. The last one is a cellphone picture of me getting set up on one of those days.

17774177751777617777

[Paul H]

Wellington, New Zealand:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/403205406_a405cee4e4_o.jpg

Agfa RSX100 (9x12cm) and MPP Microtechnical.

[Bruce M. Herman]

Here are a few more sunsets:
Summit Lake, Talkeetna Mountains,AK
Moving ice on Portage Lake, Chugach National Forest, AK
Cholla, Saguaro National Park, AZ

[Eric James]

Beautiful Bruce! Is that the Summit Lake at Hatcher Pass?

Here's a 0.7 sunset/0.3 sunrise shot taken a short drive from your Portage Lake gem.

[Bruce M. Herman]

Eric,

Yes, it is. The difficulty in making this photo was out-waiting all of the folks who were enjoying the sunset from the small hill on the far side of the lake.

Nice lupine image!

Bruce

[Brian_A]

Here are a few more sunsets:
Summit Lake, Talkeetna Mountains,AK
Moving ice on Portage Lake, Chugach National Forest, AK
Cholla, Saguaro National Park, AZ

Stunning images! Wow! I really enjoy the ice photo. What are the specs on your images?

Thanks,

-Brian

[Jan Pedersen]

Wonderful work.

I don't do much color but here's one from Joshua Tree National Monument earlier this year.

[Frank Petronio]

Forgive the high ISO digital intrusion, but every once in a while it blows me away that we can do handheld shots that look decent with the modern toy cameras... (Newark looks best in this light)

[Bruce M. Herman]

Brian,

I'm sorry to say that I don't recall the technical specs for the images. I do know that the Summit Lake image was made with a 90 mm lens, the Portage Lake image was made with a 135 mm lens and the cholla silhouette was made with a 210 mm lens.

Thank you for the kind words,
Bruce

[Eugene van der Merwe]

Some recent images... All photographed with an Ebony SV45ti on Velvia 100 using some combination of ND grad filters. The dead wood image is with a Nikkor 75mm SW, the rest a 90mm SW.

[Anden]

Daniel: Amazing!

[SadChi]

Some recent images... All photographed with an Ebony SV45ti on Velvia 100 using some combination of ND grad filters. The dead wood image is with a Nikkor 75mm SW, the rest a 90mm SW.

Eugene,

I'm not fan of color pictures, but your photos strongly drag my attention. Great color and forms composition.

[srbphoto]

Buttermilk Sunset
(4x5 cropped)

[Steve M Hostetter]

Near Chicago,,, 8x10" (cropped) Sinar P 210mm 5.6XL SS couple sec.@f32

[Steve M Hostetter]

Light house Michigan City IN 8x10 crop 210mm

[Eugene van der Merwe]

SadChi, thanks for your comment, much appreciated!

[Andrew ren]

57 tmx

[SadChi]

57 tmx

Laconic and eye catching.

[Andrew ren]

Thanks SadChi.

Andrew

[GSX4]

Here's one more taken with a Chamonix 451N and 90mm Super Angulon. 1/30 @ F22 on TMY film. Printed onto Kentmere VC Warmtone, lightly bleached, lightly sepia toned, and finished in selenium. Taken at the Temperance River in Northern MN about 3 weeks ago on the MN APUG North shore camping trip.

[Jehu]

One of my first color shots:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z95/Jehu10842/LF_color/reno_vista2-1.jpg
Sunset over Reno

[Jiri Vasina]

Well, this isn't exactly a sunrise, but it was shot shortly after it, and without the rising sun, it wouldn't be so nice.... ;)

This one is also in my Serene Landscape (http://www.vasina.net/?page_id=466) portfolio.


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/podzim/p4x6-006_web.jpg

Chamonix 5×8", Apo-Ronar 480mm, HalfPlate Wephota NP15, Rodinal.

[Ben Chase]

Taken this summer in Glacier National Park.

Cracker Lake

http://www.benchasephoto.com/storage/images-for-external/Glacier-CrackerLake2008LG.jpg

Velvia 100, Super-Symmar HM 120

[Steve Gledhill]

I somehow missed this thread earlier this year. Some lovely images which make me wish I'd been there. If only getting up early wasn't such a strain!

Here are 3 of my sunrise shots:

[Steve Gledhill]

The 3 images in my previous post are in England. These two are from Ireland, sunrises again. The Kylemore Abbey one is often seen - easily taken from the car park - but I was lucky to get a faint misty glow lit by the low sun.

[Steve Gledhill]

The 3 images in my previous post are in England.

Oooops - before the heavens fall in on me ... the telephone box is in Wales not England.

[Gary Beasley]

On a sunrise hike on Jekyll Island with my brother and our respective wives. Taken at the north end of the driftwood beach just as the sun was breaking through the clouds.

[Jehu]

Windmill in Virginia City, Nevada
4x5 Tmax developed in a Yankee daylight tank believe it or not.
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z95/Jehu10842/LF_BW/VC/windmill03.jpg

[Edwin Beckenbach]

Last Saturday, East Los Angeles
Ebony 45SU, 300mm Fujinon-C, f22 1" and 1/15", Velvia 100F

[David Hedley]

Oxbow Bend
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/3048614526_f248d2e172_b.jpg
Toyo 4x5, 180mm Schneider, Astia
f/22, 1s

[ljsegil]

First two taken about five minutes apart just before sunrise, overlooking Big Spider Lake in Hayward, WI, a place as beautiful as it gets for us Midwestern flatlanders. Wehman 8x10, my last few sheets of Kodak E100VS (want more!!!), Fuji A 240mm. Last, gratuitous tropical sunset (even flatlanders can escape), Master Technika, Velvia 50, Fuji 600T (available for the right price if anyone might be interested).
LJS

[Brian_A]

Here's a little contribution to this thread for now... I can't get it to look right (The way I want it) from TIFF to JPG but this will do. I forget the name of this beach, it's the one directly north of Pebble Beach golf course. Image made with a Horseman Woodman 4x5, Nikkor-W 150mm f/5.6 on Fuji Velvia 100 QuickLoad. Cropped because it looked
better this way. (And I'm partial to panoramic images......)

http://www.AkersonStudios.com/temp/sunsetpano2.jpg

[Thomas Greutmann]

A recent sunrise in Cuxhaven, Germany

http://www.blackandwhitegallery.de/sample/000497-lfp-cuxhaven-sunrise-ship.jpg

Linhof Technikardan with Rodenstock APO Ronar 360mm, TMAX 100 Readyload developed in XTOL

[ljsegil]

Very nice, Thomas. There is none of the usual cliche in that sunrise, a very different take on what is more commonly mundane (at least in my eyes and hands). Lovely, evocative, and so well composed. More?
LJS

[Brian_A]

Yup. Did it. Went to Yosemite and got that Tunnel View shot... Horseman Woodman 4x5, DaYi 6x17 back, Schneider APO-Symmar 210mm f/5.6, Gitzo Tripod/Head, Velvia 50.

-Brian

http://www.akersonstudios.com/temp/yospano.jpg

[bernal]

Brian,

Aren't all tunnel view shots supposed to show the valley floor? No way! I really like your panorama approach. Very nice shot indeed.

bernal

[Brian_A]

Brian,

Aren't all tunnel view shots supposed to show the valley floor? No way! I really like your panorama approach. Very nice shot indeed.

bernal


Thank you for the kind words. I wanted to get the valley floor but my closest lens is 150mm and it was just too wide for what I wanted to accomplish. That wouldn't have given Half Dome any respect, I think. That and I really liked how it made El Capitan seem so large and ominous in relation to everything else.

-Brian

[ljsegil]

A keeper for sure, Brian. Hope you had a great trip.
Larry

[Thomas Greutmann]

Very nice, Thomas. There is none of the usual cliche in that sunrise, a very different take on what is more commonly mundane (at least in my eyes and hands). Lovely, evocative, and so well composed. More?
LJS

Thank you for the nice comment, LJS. Sometimes I have the feeling that I get the best compositions when I don't think too much about it. For this picture I did not have the time to think and to explore. I walked up to the spot, saw the sun and the ship, set up the camera and took the picture. Just one shot, the ship was moving too quick for another. Everything in just a few minutes.

Another one, sunset this time. Maybe a bit more of the usual cliche. A summer sunset in Fyn / Denmark. Wista DX with APO Ronar 150mm, TMAX 100 Readyload developed in D76 straight.

http://www.blackandwhitegallery.de/sample/000392-lfp-skaastrup-strand-sunset.jpg

Greetings, Thomas

[Brian_A]

A keeper for sure, Brian. Hope you had a great trip.
Larry

Well, that shot definitely wouldn't have happened the same way without you, that's for sure! It was a great trip. I was all over CA. Ultimately my shooting was limited as most of the time was spent with friends and family. That and they hate it when I drag my 4x5 gear along. Oh well, I am already getting print sales off of my HDR I ended up doing with my D200. Anyways, thanks Larry!

-Brian

[ljsegil]

Didn't know whether to post this as a sunset or a cliche, methinks it qualifies as both though question its qualifications as an image worth posting. But what the heck, it's the current personal state of the art, as it were.
Canham 5x7, Provia 100F, 150mm Super Symmar XL, f11 and 1/400.
Larry

[Stephen Willard]

Wow there are some amazing images posted here both in b&w and color which speaks to the talent that resides at this website. I have attached two of mine with a narrative of the latter image that I include with all my photographs. It reads as follows:


This photograph was taken in celebration of the elegance and simplicity of nature. Too often we take for granted the simple things of the natural world and are dismissive of their singular beauty.

I, on the other hand, realize that the sun's twilight is an integral part of nature's heartbeat. It offers a place marker for many biological systems, including ourselves, as a time to rest and a time to awake. Some are nocturnal while others are not. As the sun passes over the horizon, it triggers different vital functions in all living things. I have found that when I am out in the backcountry sleeping under the stars, my biorhythm becomes closely linked to the cycle of the sun. I sleep better, work harder, eat better, and feel better. When I return to the urban landscape and artificial light governs my day, I can grow weary and tired.

When our sun is at rest on the horizon drenched in bold red light, it can offer a greeting to a new day, or it can signal to us it is a time for restful peace. It is a time that lies between day and night and tells us that the heartbeat of the land is strong and enduring. It offers us comfort to know that all is well.

Compositionally, the photograph is simple in design and contains the four essential ingredients of our planet. It offers a little land for us to stand on, it provides us with a little air to breathe, it quenches our thirst with a little water to drink, and of course, it anoints us with the sun's eternal energy. I submit to you, what could be more worthy, elegant, and simple than a photograph of our precious star at rest on earth's horizon.

[mikerz]

Schmultzy but I like it :)

[DJGainer]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3322/3271254443_d57e87292a_o.jpg

[ljsegil]

I guess it's time for some more hackneyed sunrise shots. I'm missing the event as it is now occurring after I get to work in the morning, and as absence makes the heart grow fonder, I guess it also makes the brain more like mush. Anyway, two shots in quick succession from the shore of Lake Michigan, one autumn morning (non-call weekend, obviously), Canham 8x10, Astia 100F, 150mm SSXL with center filter and varying degrees of malexposure (my preferred shooting technique, it seems). Sometimes being near a major industrial center like Chicago is an advantage, the particulates in the air (i.e. smog, being more like it) can make for some remarkable colors as the light is refracted and reflected so unnaturally.
Larry

[Joel Truckenbrod]

Here's a couple, from different seasonal extremes this year. Both were photographed on Astia 100f with a Tachihara 4x5 and a Fujinon 90mm f8.


Late Summer Sunset, Ahsub Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/truckyj/AhsubLake-Sunset-BWCA-09.jpg



Pastel Sunset, Ice formations, Lake Superior, Gooseberry State Park, Minnesota
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/truckyj/Ice-LakeSuperior-GooseberrySP-09.jpg

[bobwysiwyg]

Wow! Really liking the summer sunset one. Both very nice, but that one, well, great!

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/l58.jpg
Massachusetts, 2009
Sinar P, 360mm APO-Nikkor
5x7 HP5+, Pyrocat HD

[vinny]

Cross Village, Michigan. Summer 2009
wehman, splitter board, 450mm nikkor, nd9 reverse grad, velvia, sunset.

[Rakesh Malik]

Chuckanut Bay at sunset, from the Pacific Northwest Trail a year and a half ago.

http://www.whitecranephotography.com/photos/613901508_TqxCb-M-6.jpg


(Velvia 100, Fujinon 300mm f/8 @ f/64 for those who want to know.)

[J Ney]

Sunrise near Mutau Flats in Los Padres National Forest about a month or so ago...

First day of rifle season for deer... I could hear the pitter-patter of hunters in the woods behind here. Needless to say, I was wearing plenty of orange.

[ljsegil]

Shots like this one are why I don't want to lose Portra 160NC in 5x7. Lake Michigan shoreline, Canham 5x7, 150mm SSXL.
Larry

[robertmgray]

Larry, the Portra 160NC looks very unique, I'm about to order some VC but I think I might have to try NC as well now.

[vinny]

Shots like this one are why I don't want to lose Portra 160NC in 5x7. Lake Michigan shoreline, Canham 5x7, 150mm SSXL.
Larry

I'd like to know why the horizon is so far off?
Is it just exaggerated because of the width of the composition?

[ljsegil]

Robert, just order it in 5x7 from Badger. Doesn't matter what format you shoot, does it? Vinny, I may not be understanding your remark about the horizon being far off, but Lake Michigan is over 60 miles wide in the direction the camera is pointing, and the horizon is at the limit that one would see on any "flat" surface without anything obstructing the view.
Larry

[h2oman]

J Ney, I dig that image. Lots of cool symmetry with just a bit of asymmetry thrown in to keep it interesting (the background trees left and right).

Here's one from the Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge. It's perhaps a subliminal homage to two of my favorite photographers, Brian Kossoff and Colin Graham. I wasn't thinking about them when I created the image, but their influence became apparent as I cropped and processed it. Maybe they won't appreciate me attaching their names to this shot, but I'll take my chances!:D

[ljsegil]

h2oman,
beautiful image. I don't think anyone would be ashamed to be associated with it; wish I might someday be worthy of such an association.
Jney, orange may not be enough if Dick Cheney still stalks the woods (albeit usually of a confined and stocked game preserve, no real wild and wooly beasts for a man of his character and bravery while firing).
LJS

[h2oman]

Hey Larry, watch it! He's from my home town... ;)

[vinny]

I'd like to know why the horizon is so far off?
Is it just exaggerated because of the width of the composition?
I meant it not being level.

[ljsegil]

I meant it not being level.
I think I'm just basically tilted. Actually, the light was changing rapidly and I didn't pay adequate attention to maintain a level horizon. Maybe someday I'll get it all right, but for now I am happy to have the image, skewed as it may be, rather than having misssed the moment.
Thanks for your comments, next time perhaps I'll get it better.
Larry

[J Ney]

Thanks H20man!
I love all the tonality in your image.

LJ... no comment :) That being said, most of the hunters I run across are just awesome, kind, good-natured people. Admittedly I was also out hunting in this area just a few weeks earlier during archery season.

[Phil O.]

Ice Shelf. Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan
Linhof Tech III. 90mm Caltar HR. Fuji Velvia 50

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n253/Phillip_CHX/img118.jpg

[RPNugent]

Reviving this thread so it can get moved to Image Sharing.

From a trip to Yosemite about 10 years ago during a controlled burn period. Made for a nice sunrise in the valley.

[h2oman]

Nice image, RP! Very different than the usual Valley fare. One could argue that it is unnatural, except that it would be very natural if it weren't for our unnatural fire suppression!

[Bruce M. Herman]

Here's another Big Sur sunrise.

[Rakesh Malik]

Mount Rainier, viewed from the Kautz Creek trailhead, last February:

http://www.whitecranephotography.com/Landscapes/Wilderness/Large-Format-Landscapes/Kautz-Creek/765032525_shU77-M.jpg

[ljsegil]

Lake Michigan sunrise, approaching storm, Kodak E100VS (Readyload!) on Canham 4x5 Traditional, Nikkor SW 90/8 at f/11, 1/60 sec.
Larry

[mandoman7]

http://images112.fotki.com/v173/photos/2/1219782/7565497/Jenner86-vi.jpg
Nr. Jenner, Calif.; 4x5 HP5/PMK 90mm SA

[ljsegil]

Just beautiful, John.
Larry

[mandoman7]

Thanks Larry.

[Ken Cravillion]

Joel, nice images!

[Ken Cravillion]

Joel, nice images!

[jvuokko]

A Couple of sunrises. Both with Symmar-S 5.6/150 and Fuji Acros.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3889932019_dd6a4cdbc1_o.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2516/3925213337_06e7f71ebc_o.jpg

[Jfnphotography]

Sunset Betsie lighthouse by Traverse City Michigan

[RPNugent]

Bandon Beach Oregon

[Jehu]

Tahoe Sunrise:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2703/4259210858_970a9a227c_b.jpg

Tahoe Sunset:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3642230656_b432df4676_o.jpg

The Sunrise was a recent trip on a very cold morning when I was up to my ankles in Lake Tahoe.

The Sunset shot was from last summer. I went rock-hopping out to where the water was 5 feet deep or so.

Both shots are with Kodak VS100 film; 90mm Super Angulon f8 lens and a Lee ND grad filter.

[Miguel Coquis]

sunrise... (old neg)

http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Inventaire%20/sunrise.jpg

[Rhemz]

4 minute exp. on velvia of a sunset afterglow, 150mm, 1stop gnd, 4x5.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4488032878_87fb4062d5_b.jpg

[Darren H]

In a marsh along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4761923448_4c33e68d25.jpg

Arca-Swiss 4x5 with Velvia

[David Woods]

sunset on the outskirts of Sydney

scan of a neg 4x5 Velvia 50

[David Aimone]

June on Monhegan Island, Maine. Fuji Velvia 100 Chamonix 045n-2

http://www.davidaimone.com/img/s8/v9/p763912478-4.jpg