Sunrise in Chelsea

Here are the images from a morning romp (started at 0430) to a new location I wanted to try out in Chelsea. I wandered around in both the car and on foot with GuynS looking for an ideal place to capture some neat shots.

Although they aren't my favourite shots ever ... here they are! Use the arrows to scroll through all of the images of the shoot.

Walk on the Beach

Back to Punta Cana for a bit. Simple image here, showing the simplicities of being on vacation. Nothing like an early morning walk on the beach into the sunrise!

Walk in the sunrise

Cleaning up

This one follows the last post in that it shows the clean up that is done in the mornings for a beautiful beach in the Dominican Republic. As it is, you can also see that there are already tourists down on the beach for a morning walk.

Cleaning up the Beach

Early Morning Dominican Work

The unseen heroes of the Dominican resorts are the ones that we never see. Individuals like this who are always out before many of the tourists hit the beach, making sure that it is clean and presentable.

Keeping the Dominican Clean

Back to Punta Cana

Although I took a break to showcase a few of the images from the 7D, I finally am getting back into the Punta Cana images. Here is another one (and the next few days will be too) from the sunrise images on the beach.

Bent Tree Sunrise

Sunrise over the Dominican Ocean

2 more Dominican Sunrise pictures!

Two Boats


Serenity

Lessons Learned

Bear with me, this is a little longer than you are used to seeing. I wanted to make today's post a little more that just pretty pictures and try to present a couple of lessons learned. The first lesson is photographic and the second one is for life in general (for those that know me well ... humour me and pretend that I am even remotely qualified to be giving a life lesson).
The photographic lesson derives itself from the idea of perspective. The two images below are technically of the same subject (the barn and field) yet are completely different images. When you get to a scene and start shooting, make sure that you move around a bit (or at least change the view by adjusting the direction/tilt/etc on the tripod as is seen here). I hate to tell you this but the chance that you nailed the perfect composition on your first try when getting to the scene is very unlikely (and if you did ... You probably won't be taking photographic advice from me!)To make a long story short, never underestimate the power of shifting your point of view when shooting a specific subject.
The life lesson (again ... humour me) is nothing revelutionary. In fact every one of your parents have probably given you this lesson more than once before. When I took the images below, I was not intending on making an hdr/sunrise/landscape image at all. In fact that morning I got up at 02:45 to try and get an image of the comet that is just becoming visible to the naked eye. Getting that Image turned out to be a big failure. I by far underestimated the difficulty of capturing an image of a faint comet, near a major city, with just a camera and a tripod. That being said, I didn't just go home and sulk in my failure. Having realised that I wasn't going to get the image I wanted, I took advantage of being out (with the intention of shooting) and find myself something else to shoot. Don't be so stuck on achieving(or your failure to achieve)a goal that you completely miss any other opportunities that come along.
That being said, I guess I have no excuse but to follow another piece of advice that every parent gives: if at first you don't succeed .... Essentially I may have to brave another 2:45am to attempt the comet again!