I drove to Sydney on Friday night to visit Chris (Omaroo). We stayed up most of the night, as we usually do, heading to bed in the wee hours of the morning, only to rise up again at 3:45 AM for a 4 AM departure to travel 90 km to my favourite location on Sydney's coast.
On less than 2 hours sleep, it seemed like sunrise was an epic fail as the entire eastern sky was covered with clouds. We saw the pre-dawn cirrus light up in crimson splendour, but, we were missing the main event.
Shortly after sunrise, the clouds gave way to an incredible display of pristine first light.
Presented here, is a dynamic scene where waves reach for a rocky moss-covered shoreline while a halo adorns our precious star.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/13s f/16.0 at 17.0mm iso100
Large version available
here.
Please note that this image hasn't been touched up in Photoshop -- this is directly from Canon's Digital Photo Professional software. I don't have time at the moment (backlog of work) to be processing images through completion. Having said that, in my biased opinion, this stands on its own without requiring further processing treatment.
The 5D Mark II is a landscape eating machine. If you can afford one, get one, then come join me for some fun on the coast in a workshop in the not too distant future.
H