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June 21, 2006
Clearwater Beach Sunset: Evening Warmth
Hopefully everyone isn't getting sick of the Clearwater Beach sunset photos. I have a couple more that I'll soon post mixed in with shots I took of the St. Petersburg Peir at night.
Photo Notes:
Clearwater Beach Pier in Clearwater, FL.
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June 15, 2006
Clearwater Beach Sunset: Fire In The Sky
Photo Notes:
This, again, was taken at the Clearwater Beach Pier in Clearwater Beach, FL. The original picture was a landscape shot that didn't fill the frame. The left side was boring/bland, thus reducing the interest of the photo. I cropped out the center of the picture that had the most interesting composition. Typically I don't like centering main objects (the peir/people & sun), but I think it worked out well here.
Lesson Learned:
1) Fill the frame; I need a 400mm so I don't have to crop (w/ 200mm) :-P
2) Probably not the smartest thing to mangify the retina burning ability of the sun by looking through a view finder with a magnifying lens attached.
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June 08, 2006
Clearwater Beach Sunset: Remnants of a Castle
I'm sure there were plenty of predictions for 06-06-06 (666), but I bet no one predicted that my video card would die. It's definitely an apocalyptic sign of the anti-Christ! Well... maybe not, but it did force me to spend $140 bucks on a "cheap, low end" graphics card. An hour, a Michelina's Chili Mac microwave dinner, and two slices of bread later, I finally got my new ATI Radeon X1300 Pro graphics card installed and the system fully up and running.
After all of that hard work, I leave you with this photo...
Photo Notes:
This was taken at Clearwater Beach Pier in Clearwater Beach, FL. I had set up the shot to just include the sun, pier, boat, and dissolved sand castle. At the last instant before I took the shot, the little girl ran into the scene. She adds an energetic backlit human element along with an interesting shadow.
Lesson Learned:
Sometimes good shots come from preparation, patience, and vision... other times it's just plain luck.
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June 07, 2006
Clearwater Beach Sunset: Three Femmes
Well I made it back from my 10 day, two destination vacation. It was great visting family in Florida. Unfortunately, I'm only able to make it down there a couple of times a year. Following the Florida stay, I had a wonderful time spending the long weekend with awesome friends while camping & climbing at Blue Mounds State Park.
While I was in Florida I got a chance to hang out at the Clearwater Beach. Let's just say that Clearwater Beach over Memorial Day weekend has a lot of eye candy... including a beautiful sunset. I will be putting up some of the sunset pics over the next few posts.
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