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Gooseberry Falls State Park - Near Sunset
Brighton Beach, Duluth - Ice At Sunset

January 3, 2004
I slithered out on my belly to this small opening to a larger downstream lead. I zipped shut my camera bag and hooked it under my left arm for a flotation device.
I ended up on my chest on top of a bulge in the ice from a river rock to take this photo. I put my camera about 12 inches from the lip of the open lead hole to get this. The flash fired over the edge onto the snow and was wasted on the exposure I was trying for. It happens.
A weathered cedar tree on the riverbank that looked tough to be there. I like this composition, but the exposure is way overexposed, and it burned out the best parts of the cedar tree that I saw.
This was taken at full resolution on JPEG mode. It is left as the original JPEG, just scaled down.  This was taken at full resolution on RAW mode. It was converted to JPEG at the same resolution as seen on the image to the left. Sharper!
An ice fang hanging on the NE wall of the Gooseberry River lower falls. The orange-white light from afternoon winter sun lit this grass and I metered off of it for this photo. Notice the nearly full moon peeking into the scene.
Nice winter sun on the grass. All of the lower falls action was happening outside of natural sunlight when I was there. All you can see is blue light. Sorry about that...
This was the only interesting rock formation that was lit. The scale is about 25 feet from top to bottom of the photo. A leaning ancient white pine into the light qualified for things I was trying to find.
One of the ice fangs hanging opposite the Gooseberry Falls lower falls. I personally thought it was a frozen blue whale.
Metering my camera on the setting sun. This ice looked perfectly alien.
Metering my camera on the near glossy ice. Metering my camera on the shoreline lake surface.
Metering my camera on the dripping icicles. Metering my camera on the reflective top of the milky glass.
I hope everyone understands about my talk of metering on the last sunset photos. I know that many of my friends do.
 
Copyright © 2004 Tony Rogers