... and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
When I read about the competition I thought this is somehthing for urban photographers. Nature and landscape Photographer have no lights in the late night hours and startrails are hard to take for digital photographers cause of the noise. So I throw it away to be part of my first open challange on dpchallenge. On That day I decided to make a photobiwak at the beach to take some pictures of the morning sun. When I reached the beach I was blinded by the moonlight and suddenly become very nervous. As a landscape photographer I had not only to fokus on startrails in late night hour. There ist also the moon.
The sea was very heavy this day, wind are hard. I Build up my camera put on a ng grad with 2 stops and cought the movement of the wave. It was hard to get a clear shot not only focussing was hard because of the waves also the foam sprankled my filter.
For the challange I decided not to make a typical forgroundstone/background sky photo. This should be something special. The wave fog should be in full size so I put the stones a little bit in the background to show the full wavefog. I was also stimulated about the reflexions of the little stones in the foreground they were so sweet an seemed to be untouched by the bad threatening sea.
So hope you like my art. I so, feel free in visiting my on my website and write something in my guestbook, english is welcome...
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Congratulations on the red. Once more a simple, uncluttered image wins an award. Most has already been said but it is well deserved.
Apart from the image, your description in English was almost as enchanting as the picture. My favourite part "the foam sprankled my filter" WONDERFUL. In future, when the rain or the sea interrupts my photography I will remember being "sprankled" and won't feel so annoyed.
Brilliantly original! You deserved this ribbon (and on your first entry as well). Congratulations on your success with this creative and original entry.
This is really beautiful!! You must hav had a good amount of moonlight. You got a nice fog effect from the moving water, but not too long of an exposure to keep the stars at a nice pinpoint. I like! 10
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight, voters can find their way by moving the mouse to the right, until they see 10, and click. Seriously, my favorite in the challenge. Absolutely beautiful photo! As a print, I'd like it better if the stars were cloned out, but I understand that they had to be left in for the challenge. Thats just my opinion anyway, I'm sure many people liked the stars.
Great shot. I can't hepl wondering how this would look like in colors, but the b&w works very well and makes the image stand out amongst so many good ones. You've managed to create a dreamy feel and I beleive that's why I like this one so much. Good job.
Very Nice image. I'm so happy that you did not include the moon in this shot. Great lighting. Great exposure. Lovely textures. Outstanding image! Possibly a blue ribbon winner. (10)
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