Showing posts with label sunrise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunrise. Show all posts

Friday, December 02, 2016

In Camera...Perfect Winter Day

Coronation Park, Crosby. Early morning mist over frost covered fields lends atmosphere to this shot of the rays of light from the rising sun

Last Saturday was a rare perfect winter day for atmospheric photography. The temperature did not rise much above freezing point all day but the absence of wind made it feel warmer. A light mist hovered across the cold ground all day and there was a radiant golden glow of light just after sunrise on this very cold and frosty morning as the sun slowly pierced the fog, it's light forming rays of light and shadow spreading through the hazy air.

Coronation Park, Crosby, just after sunrise

Beech Trees, Alexandra Park, Crosby

Beech Trees, Alexandra Park, Crosby
 The two images above show how shooting into the light can make such a difference to the picture. They are the same trees in both pictures.

Frost covered ground, Alexandra Park, Crosby
In the afternoon the back lanes near Little Crosby are full of low lying mist across the still frosty fields and the sun is setting as I drive through. The whole day is very reminiscent of Christmas with smoke rising through the still cold air, the roofs and ground white with frost and that lovely soft pink glow from a winter sunset which depend to a warm orange afterglow as the earth rotates into darkness.


Late afternoon in the fields near Little Crosby

The afterglow on a fine winter evening across the fields near Little Crosby

Down on Crosby beach, a bank of fog lies out to sea, the sky above filled with the afterglow of sunset. The iron men fade into the distance.

The Mile Marker on Crosby Beach looms out of the fog on this cold winter day


Saturday, January 19, 2013

In Camera ... Fiery Dawn Sky


A bitterly cold icy morning, the local park covered with frost, the sky ablaze with colour as the sun rose. A moment of nature that has to be captured quickly, five minutes later the colour had gone from the sky as the sun appeared above the horizon.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

In Camera ... Sunrise over Liverpool

The sleeping city awakes
The sleeping city awakes; this is the first picture I took as I set up on the promenade near Seacombe ferry terminal. I have been wanting to update my Liverpool sunrise pictures for some time and the recent spell of good weather gave me the ideal combination of clear skies and the right time of year to capture the sun rising over Liverpool's Royal Liver Building. Other times I have made many trips to try to capture this event only to be thwarted by cloud, mist or cranes on the skyline but this week everything was just right with no cranes in site.



Monday 11th October - this mornings photographs were not even planned. It had been a lovely clear sky last night, see my pictures from yesterday above, and I woke at 06.45 and wondered if it was still clear. Looking out the sky was a pale blue green, a gimmer of yellow on the eastern horizon. I quickly dressed, a slurp of hot tea to refresh and out at seven. The traffic was light and I arrived at Seacombe ferry terminal car park around 07.25, the Liverpool waterfront a strong silhouette against a lightening sky. I took some pictures before sunrise, the sky a pale orange behind the Liver buildings which shield the first rays of the rising sun from me. Around 07.40 the sun showed its first glimmer of light as it rose over the top of the Liver Buildings, bright burning yellow light streaking across the river, I worked quickly to capture the first rays of light over the city, soon the sun was clear of the buildings and too bright to look directly into. Another day had begun, the sky an unbroken blue but for the trails of aircraft reflecting the light of the sun.








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