Ocean City Sunrise

So if you do a search on flickr for sunset you get 5.9 million results. If you do a search for sunrise you get 1.4 million results. Maybe it's because more people are naturally awake for sunsets. Maybe it's because more photographers live on the West Coast. Either way...sunsets seem to be more popular. And generally...I would say I enjoy a good sunset more than I feel like I've enjoyed the couple of sunrises I've witnessed. Maybe because the best sunsets are places where you can see them...and if I'm somewhere I can see them, I'm on vacation, and if I'm on vacation and sitting there watching a sunset, then the rest of the day was probably a pretty good day. If I'm watching a sunrise...I'm generally a little cranky and I feel like there's less color, though I'm not sure what basis I have to say that.

Regardless...I'm in Ocean City...the sunrise is all I got.

Given the oppurtunity...and the fact that the day we left for the beach I found my little tripod. And as I'm still itching for "interesting" things to shoot (I know I need to look more into life around me...but...I can't find cool landscapes driving around Odenton!). I decide I'm going to wake up early and shoot the sunrise. Judge me if you want, but I must have been a bit excited because I woke up an hour before I planned (and thank goodness I did because I would have missed a lot). I went to the beach...set up my little 2 foot tripod...and started shooting the sky. Again, judge if you like...I know I'm a pretty little girl...but I had a lot of fun. I just enjoyed being able to use the camera in the areas it excels over my previous point and shoots. I enjoyed shooting in what looked like night to me and getting a very bright and saturated blue sky. And the temperature was perfect. And it was one of the few times I felt like I was preserving the experience through film instead of missing out on the experience because I was distracted taking pictures, most of which wouldn't help me re-experience anything, it would only be a poor reminder of it.

Anyway...I ended up taking a lot of pictures (filled up a 2GB card and then some), and a lot of them looked the same because...well...I would take a shot...like the way it looked...take a few more...look around for another thing to shoot...then look back at what I had shot a couple of seconds ago and think, "ooo...that would be a good shot"...and take some more. And I mean...I was out there for an hour and a half. What else am I going to do? You might be wondering, how many things can you point the camera at during a sunrise? Well...I tried to get creative...but...the best shots (relative to each other) were of course of the sun rising.

So I'll just put up a couple of my favorites here (which I'm sure when I start importing will turn into much more than a couple), and I'll probably stick a few more up on flickr.

I did some enhancing to a few of them, as I had some pretty bad exposures that I didn't realize until later. But for the most part, they are pretty true to what came out of the camera, which is nice because...well...I'm not a very good photo editor.















So the last half are an hour after sunrise when the sun was doing this cool, light from heaven thing. And the last one obviously is not of the sunrise...just a shot I liked.