June Sunrise

Each month in 2009 Becky and I have chosen to photograph a sunrise at the lake. Well the sun has moved so far north in the eastern horizion that we can't get a photograph without driving 50 miles to get to Sneads, FL (and that was last month's shooting location) so we chose a location close to the lake but not on the water. It is a field of rye. As the sun began to rise a thin layer of fog formed over the rye field. Only two vehicles passed by we were shooting the second vehicle was the land owner who stopped. Apparently the driver first vehicle had contacted him and told him a survey team was on his property. In the early morning light the cameras on tripods much have appeared to be survey equipment. The owner was pleased that we had chosen his field to photograph the sunrise and was relieved that we were not a survey team. I guess he thought the government might be trying to take some of his property. The above image is a High Dynamic Range image using three photographs combined. Taken with a Canon 50D, using a Canon 28-80 lens @ 28mm. f/22, 1/4, 1/15, 1 sec exposures, ISO 100 and the three images were combined using Photomatix.