All in Travel
Speaking of lunch, I realise it has been a while since I ate sushi. This guy sure likes it. The egret even uses its beak like chopsticks! :D
While walking around the lake in Rockville, something large and white rose up out of the tall grass to my left about 10-15 feet away. Point camera, zoom, focus, shoot, shoot, shoot.
When editing in Lightroom, I noticed a dark spot in the open beak of the egret. I zoomed in and saw a fish!
I had missed a spectacular sunset the night before. We had cloudy skies the next day as well, so I decided to go out and shoot. The photo has the Suisun Harbor Lighthouse against a background of Twin Sisters mountain at sunset.
The image is a blend of 3 different 32bit HDR photos taken throughout the sunset. One photo, taken early on, had the rays of sunlight beaming through the clouds. A little later, the sky turned pink and orange. And one final photo, to blend in the lights of the Lighthouse as they finally turned on for the night.
Suisun Harbor Lighthouse, seen from the landward side. This is on the paved trail that loops around City Hall, and nestled among trees and marsh grass.
There is an appeal to revisiting local spots to practice composition and experiment with one's photography skills. One is to gauge your growth and maturity as a photographer. Another is to experiment with new techniques.
The above photo is extensively manipulated using Lightroom's adjustment brush. I chose to use the brush rather than a gradient filter to lower the exposure of the sky because of the foreground trees spanning the height of the photo. I also added some blue to the water as that was a bit yellow from the cloudy color temperature preset.
