Sunrise
Morning Rest
Shoreline Stroll
It Begins
The earth begins to stir to as the sun lights up the horizon. This is the pre-sunrise image I captured yesterday morning.
To get all this sky into one image I had to take three individual shots and then combine them
This was how I saw it and captured it from my backyard. These are the kind of colors I want to photograph near the lake and lighthouses for, but on a work day I can’t make that happen. Sometimes you have to settle for what you can get and know, some other day, it will be different. Where were these clouds and color last Saturday?
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Colors of Calm
The sky was interesting enough to warrant a wide, panoramic view. This, of course, is the Kewaunee, WI lighthouse with a beautiful background provided by the wispy clouds and the sun rising over Lake Michigan.
These are the kind of mornings I wait for, when I’m looking for a sunrise to photograph. Haven’t had the opportunity to catch one like this in awhile. This one was taken the morning of September 6, 2013.
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Gold Fusion
Shades of Dawn
Lakeside Sedation
Dawn’s Early Flight
On the morning I took this photo, it was a calm and slowly brightening scene. I was focused on capturing the color in the clouds behind the lighthouse.
A large number of seagulls were resting on the pier running perpendicular to the lighthouse, apparently having spent the night there.
For no particular reason, they began to take off and I simply clicked the shutter several times as they inserted themselves into the scene.
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Morning Blush
Of all the photos I have of local lighthouse, I’ve never made it up to Sturgeon Bay to visit their lighthouse. Last weekend my wife and I were on a little getaway in Door County so Sunday morning, I got up well before sunrise and found my way to the lighthouse.
This is an early shot before the sun broke the horizon, when the sky first began to blush behind the Sturgeon Bay, WI lighthouse, on the western shore of Lake Michigan.
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