No rest for the wicked

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Time to Burn - (c) Gerard Blacklock

D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/14 and Shutter Speed: 20s, 1.6s, 8s and 4s
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL.

no time to burn

It feels like about 12 midnight and and I hear my youngest daughter, tickles aka Mayhem, stirring in cot, there was a little too much fun at the beach the day before and a bit too much heat for the little tacker which meant for a restless night – after 10 minutes of gerry’s pro rocking and soothing skills she was back down for another round of sleep and i thought, ‘sweet i gotta plenty of hours before my alarm goes off for my sunrise session’ 🙂

However low and behold, what felt like literally 5 minutes and the alarm goes off and its 4:30 am…. damn…I lay there for several minutes contemplating whether the sunrise is gonna be worthwhile and whether I should get those extra 2 hours of sleep… as it happens, a few days before I had woken up early with the girls (chaos and mayhem) and we all watched the most spectacular sunrise I had ever seen, from the lounge room window 🙂

I dragged myself from the bed with my ninja sleath skills and promptly cracked my head on the door as trying to carry my camera bag out in the dark, but luck was on my side and tickles remained asleep.. well long enough for me to bail 😉

A short drive to Chinamans beach and i noticed the colour developing in the sky, awww man this means I am gonna have to run to get to my sunrise spot, with the camera bag on and the anti-spider equipment deployed I started a jog down to the beach…jeez..i should have layed off that crackling from christmas ;(

I love seascapes, i love sunrise, i do it all even in light of the lack of sleep and the pain of getting up and getting to a place.. the moment the suns colour develops and the morning starts it simply rejuvenates my soul. Standing alone with nothing but the sea washing up and the sound of peddles rolling in the surf there is a sense of calm and control about the world…

Techie love:
4 frames, manually blended in Adobe Photoshop, i could just about do it with one shot, however i wanted to maintain that rich colour in the horizon where the sun was poking up and also the shadow detail in the pebbles in the foreground.
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/14 and Shutter Speed: 20s over exposed shot (foreground rocks), 1.6s underexposed (for the sun and horizon) and 8s and 4s just to capture that nice blue in the sky which was a bit dark from the graduated filter.
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL.

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53 thoughts on “No rest for the wicked”

  21. Sweet sunrise mate – and those ripples in the sky – very tasty – I'm going to have to get off my butt soon and get out again
    I like that mixture of the nice coloured smooth rounded pebbles with the dark chunky rocks

  22. "I lay there for several minutes contemplating whether the sunrise is gonna be worthwhile"

    I usually say no lol. Maybe sunset? But that's not be until after 9pm out here so nothing throws though the lens

    your photo was worth getting up for. You do them so well.

  49. Very well shot and planned, great ninja stealth skills to get such a magnificent shot as this sunrise 🙂 Go Ninja Gerald GREAT SHOT!

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