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Man Made Sunset at Juanita Bay Park

Written on February 22, 2011 Posted in Photography Locations


Juanita Bay Park: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS

Please click on the image to see a larger version. I spent this evening at Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland.  Mike and I arrived just after 5 pm, hoping for a nice sunset, but the thick clouds did us in.  We waited until dark, putzin’ around and looking at the ducks swimming nearby.  What the setting sun couldn’t provide, the lights of Seattle did.  The distant clouds over the emerald city were lit up brilliantly!  I set up my tripod and captured a 5 1/2 minute-exposure.  The overhead glow was reflected by the water, and the many stumps served as interesting foreground subject matter.  I hope you enjoy the shot.

  • 13 Comments

Barb Michieli: Very cool!

Kalpana: Beautiful!

Bev: Mahesh, You are wasting your time in medicine, you should be an artist.

Orion: I know this spot well, I love Juanita Bay Park, it's a nice place to practice telephoto with the wildlife. Love this unique long exposure take on it!

Mahesh: Barb, Kalpana, Bev, and Orion...thank you very much for your kind comments. Orion, it's good to hear from you after so long. Speaking of wildlife, yesterday afternoon I went to Skagit Valley and captured a few decent shots of some short-eared owls.

Nicole: I love the colors of this one! And the sky looks so cool...

Mahesh: Goldie, thanks! I know this is just your type of sky! I love the "smearing" effect of the long exposure.

Dianna Wachtel: Artist/medicine--I think you do both superbly :) Lovely, thanks for sending.

Sally Allison: I agree with Bev, even though I do not know you. Somehow you need to market these pictures and your abilities!

Chris Budech: Mahesh, did you bracket different exposure times, i.e. how do you come up with 5 1/2 minutes and I assume with those long exposures the aperature is wide open???

Mahesh: Sally, thanks! I love radiology just as much as photography. I can't see myself doing one exclusively.

Mahesh: Chris, thanks! Yes, I did bracket the shots. The sky in the 5 1/2 min shot is totally "blown out" (overexposed). My decision to expose for 5 1/2 minutes was what I came up with after doing some test shots. The aperture was actually f/11, so not wide at all. I wanted as many things in focus as possible, so went with the smallish aperture.

JT: Amazing!

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