Category: Photography

Stout’s Point on Petit Jean Mountain is a favorite of many people. I don’t think I’ve ever been there alone. As I neared the mountain, I saw fog and got hopeful. I was more interested in shooting the fog than the sunrise. After you watch the video, scroll down.

Now look at these two pictures. Notice the “false” Sun. It was very circular but I knew it wasn’t the actual Sun. There are several phenomena that can cause this, I don’t know which it was.

Finally, my new friend Adam Sullivan took this picture of me taking pictures of the sunrise. I wish he had a better model for his composition.

I guess location doesn’t matter with this picture. No water or other identifying landmarks are visible.

Here is why you keep trying. It was lightly sprinkling when I left the house to shoot the sunrise at Vista Point for the fourth time in two weeks. I thought it might be a lost cause but as Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t try for.

For the time lapse, I exposed to the left at the beginning to avoid blowing it out later. Each frame was five seconds apart, sped up to ten frames per second. There was a double rainbow too but those shots didn’t turn out.