A story upon patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet
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Oh my, what a show we got here on the east coast on Monday morning!
Sunday night, I was overtied, I could easily have just collapsed and slept in the middle of a carpark.
I got home and went straight to bed at 8:15pm. However, my sleep all that night was broken.
I woke up every hour and some unknown reason I failed to get back to sleep at 4:45am.
Instead of drugging myself, I opted to go for a drive to the beach and go for a walk. I finished my walk at about 5:40am.or so and then I stopped. I was opening my car door when I noticed the faintest reflection of a predawn glow.
I realised that there was a slight glow in the horizon and hour out from sunrise I thought I better stay in case something happens and luckily I always keep swimmers and the camera in the car.
I got changed into my swimmers, as I knew for my intend shot I was gonna get wet.
Within minutes, there went from the occasional passing jogger to multiple photographers fighting for compositions.
However I keep to myself and set up. With the tide coming in, I constantly had to fight to keep my tripod level and stable and every second wave polluted my front element with water drops.
For the next hour and a bit, I was fighting the elements in an attemp to nail my dream shot. This was the first time in almost three years that I got idel condition at my local beach.
It's been a painful wait as I would've had a couple of hundred failed attempts here but it really does all pay off in the end.
Taken with the Nikon D810. nikon 14.24mm 2.8 lens, ISO 64, 2" sec shutter speed and f/8. Also shot with the polariser and 3 stop soft grad.
Sunday night, I was overtied, I could easily have just collapsed and slept in the middle of a carpark.
I got home and went straight to bed at 8:15pm. However, my sleep all that night was broken.
I woke up every hour and some unknown reason I failed to get back to sleep at 4:45am.
Instead of drugging myself, I opted to go for a drive to the beach and go for a walk. I finished my walk at about 5:40am.or so and then I stopped. I was opening my car door when I noticed the faintest reflection of a predawn glow.
I realised that there was a slight glow in the horizon and hour out from sunrise I thought I better stay in case something happens and luckily I always keep swimmers and the camera in the car.
I got changed into my swimmers, as I knew for my intend shot I was gonna get wet.
Within minutes, there went from the occasional passing jogger to multiple photographers fighting for compositions.
However I keep to myself and set up. With the tide coming in, I constantly had to fight to keep my tripod level and stable and every second wave polluted my front element with water drops.
For the next hour and a bit, I was fighting the elements in an attemp to nail my dream shot. This was the first time in almost three years that I got idel condition at my local beach.
It's been a painful wait as I would've had a couple of hundred failed attempts here but it really does all pay off in the end.
Taken with the Nikon D810. nikon 14.24mm 2.8 lens, ISO 64, 2" sec shutter speed and f/8. Also shot with the polariser and 3 stop soft grad.
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