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!

First Fall Sunset

Well I came up empty handed after waiting on some Kestrels for 30 minutes - but when I turned around I saw this beautiful sunset over the farm fields of Aquebogue.  It worked out well that I had my telephoto lens on as there was some farm equipment just below the bottom of the frame so a wide-angle would likely have not worked well.  Earlier in the week I had photographed this Groundhog in the same field.

And here is another photo of the sunset but with the farm equipment included (taken in a vertical format) which I think does not compare to the top post.