Saturday, August 1, 2009

mad about sunsets

You must have heard of storm chasers, right?? How about sunsets chasers?? My husband and I believe that we belong to this group. We cant' just sit down and have dinner after a long day at work and just admire the sunset happening at the back of our house. So this is what happened this evening.
Scene 1: Drove back from work and I thought 'oh, that's a pretty one.' Got out of the car and ran to get my camera. This time I used the Lumix to test its performance and got this.

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Scene 2. Drove back home and Alex thought he fancied pizza. When we arrived at the take away place we thought we'd go for Chinese. Default setting I call this.

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Scene 3. Had Chinese and been looking out the conservatory and noticed the changing hues in the sky. Finished with my meal and saw the sky turning purple. Alex said, we'll come back tomorrow at a later time. Then I said, 'sunsets aren't the same everyday you know.' He shrugged but I insisted we have to get this one.
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Scene4. Drove back to the spot and guess what? I took the memory card off the camera. Just then we both realized the camera hasn't got a memory built in. Bummer!!! For what it's worth...

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Scene 5. We drove back home and I tried taking photos from the bathroom window and because this is a small camera I had some issues with shakes..grrrr.. I got so caught up dangling myself over the bathroom window that I slipped and bruised my shin. Ouch!!!!

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Scene 6. These are what I've got for you today. ;-) I hope they are good enough.
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F 5.6 1/1.3 ISO 100

No photoshop used in these photos just normal cropping.