I did everything I could to capture a beautiful sunrise. It never happened!
Last night I checked the weather forecast (cloud cover, wind, sunrise, and the weather in general. It looked promising!
My alarm went off at 0431, got up had a quick coffee and banana, got betsy in the car, collected my camara gear and drone, then headed off to South Queensferry at early dawn. On walking towards the location under the Forth Rail Bridge, it looked good, pretty clear, and walked into the deep blue and pinkie sky. As I was getting to the old world war 2 ammunition pier, there was a bit of low stratus cloud. I seen a good opportunity to take an image of the pier, with a lovely rising waning crescent moon above the low clouds, as I looked south towards South Queensferry.
I got my tripod ready with my Nikon D510 DSLR and the lens used was the Nikon 18-105mm F3.5-5.6. I don’t use this lens often enough. It came in handy today. The image below was taken at 66mm, F11, 3s exposure, I set this to aperture priority. It was taken at the side of the concrete block. The tide was out, and to the right side of the pier, was a rocky and pebbly beach. I took this around 30 minutes from sun set, sun set at this location was at 0550hrs.
A lovely waning rising crescent moon above the oil tanker on the Firth of Forth.
I went down and walked carefully along the rocky beach to a point where I should get the sunrise behind the pier. Unfortunately more stratus clouds drifted towards our location, and was unfortunately not going to see a sunrise this morning.
I did however, enjoy being out and seeing the colours in the sky with Betsy. I am learning that as a photographer, don’t be disappointed when things don’t come to plan, but enjoy being outside with the camera, learning new things. Even take different images from the one planned. I am still outside with the camera.
Below is an image of the pier, without the expected sunrise behind this magnificent decaying structure. This was taken around 5-10 minutes after sunrise. I used the same lens, Nikon 18-105mm F3.5-5.6. 24mm, F16, 1/60s. Aperture priority mode.
I hope you all enjoy this short blog?
The low stratus clouds prevented me seeing a sunrise this morning, but still, I still managed to capture two meaningful images, that now is shared to you all.
