Sun is Rising

Sunrise is always beautiful - and last weekend in Amagansett was no exception....Those colors are all natural and I really like the visual effect of a "squished" sun (above).  Below is another version shot at a much lower ISO (hence the darker water).  On both of these shots, the sun was completely blown out (that is, it was so bright it was rendered as white in the image).  I filled it in using the fringing colors of the sun and used a desaturation sponge to increase the brightness for a more real effect.

A more "abstract" shot:

Here is an image of a Grey Seal that was released by the Riverhead Foundation over the summer which I recently processed to round things out!