Gonzales Solstice with Drain
Another photo taken at the winter solstice event in Gonzales Bay before Christmas. I like that there is a moon shadow from my partner, but also a street and house lights shadow from bushes and other things that are on the bank behind the beach. For other photos see Gonzales Solstice and Gonzales Solstice II.
I had forgotten that I took this one to include also the Gonzales storm drain, featured in this earlier post. I quite like that I have managed to get a night shot of one of my favourite subject types, combined with wonderful lighting.
Canon 5D MkII, Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO1000, f2.8, 3 brackets +/- 2.0 E.V from 13 seconds.
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Some of your finest images to-date, good sir! Great colors and tones at play here, Ehpem, and the details in the houses that surround the bay and the lights of Port Angeles (?) twinkling in the distance! I have loved each shot from this series, and this one may very well be my favorite.
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Thank you Toad! That is Port Angeles in the distance at the foot of the Olympic Mountains, lighting up that local cloud bank. Glad you like it, this whole shoot was definitely one of my favourites.
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Is the Ross Bay storm drain as small as this one? I had always imagined it to be about as wide as a small car, not as wee as this.
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Hi Katherine! The Ross Bay storm drain is much larger – even wider than a small car – maybe as wide as a bus. I do have one picture of it inhabited by boys (https://burntembers.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/drain-boys/) and another with a gull standing around on it (https://burntembers.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/drain-gull/) both of which give a pretty good idea of scale. I just drove by it and the tide is very far out and it is probably standing 6 feet or maybe 8 feet off the beach at its lower end. I would take a picture, except I have to rush out for other things and it is getting dark.
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That is a lovely jigsaw of light and objects that all mesh together so well.
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Thank you Andy. Jigsaw could = too busy, so I am glad you find it meshes!
I was only just noticing that the candle holding bag in the stronger street/house light actually has a shadow which is totally invisible to the eye since there is a pool of light around each candle and then not much else to be seen, live that is.
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I can’t believe you forgot about this!!!
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Well Ken, I took quite a few photos that evening, and I guess that this one just slipped away in the crowd.
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You created a wonderful series of photographs that evening. The person so nicely lit adds to the visual interest of this photo. If I’d come across this photo on Flickr it’d definitely be added to my favourites.
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Thank you Joseph, it was a very successful outing. My partner did a very good job of standing still – I did not bother treating her as ghosted during processing, though there is a tiny bit if one zooms in. The lighting was good, though in fact we could not see too well at all and so this was not obvious to me until I started taking pictures.
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