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Published: 2012-07-18 13:56:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 7509; Favourites: 463; Downloads: 593
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Yesterday morning I woke up at 3am and headed to Brainard Lake, Colorado to photograph the sunrise. It was absolutely invigorating and refreshing with temps at 40 degrees and the wind gusting hard over the Indian Peaks and across Brainard Lake. For a moment I had a reprieve from the gusts and got a somewhat clean wildflower shot with little movement in this 2 second exposure. It sure was gorgeous and the light just danced!I want to emphasize something here to those of you who are just starting out with photography and want to get better. The biggest thing you can do is make the effort to shoot in good light & wake up at ungodly hours to get on location in time. There is something about photographing in fresh air with no noise pollution, no people and having some of the best light you can imagine. This is perhaps the easiest thing you can do to better your work and best of all it's 100% free! Can't beat that now can ya?
---John
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Pretty photo! I live the colors and the composition. Great job!
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You're right about that, early hours, or late evening, or just standing around animal enclosures at zoos for hours to get that animal moving for a whole 3 minutes. lol
And what a shot!! Wow, the colors are amazing.
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Beautiful shot! For me, it would more be like stay up then sleep after you get photos, haha.
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Funny how I am not a morning person but something about the mountains and getting up that early to try and see the sun rise is so invigorating!
Great sho!
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Another gorgeous one! You almost make me want to get up at those ungodly hours you talk about.
Hugs,
Anj
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Absolutely gorgeous. The colours are so vibrant and lush. Genius.
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Hello John,
very nice colors, like this warm light, you know how to find those type of place!
Phil
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Oh whoa! And this one too is yours! Truly phenomenal! It's so open, you can feel the fresh air. What a beautiful world it truly is.
I could quote the second part you wrote when I'll get a decent capture! Well done!
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As a novice I could not agree with you more. Wonderful shot and I can't wait for fall in the BIG CO.
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I love visiting Colorado. What a beautiful place. Fantastic photo!
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Beautiful shot John! Great shot the description was great as well, definitely experience some of those ungodly hours myself
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These colours are so beautiful. (The sunlit forests from middle to left and the very rim of that lake I like best.)
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Simply breathtaking! An outstanding capture, I am inspired, I wish I could capture a landscape as well as you haha but with a camera such as mine - a small samsung digital, I can only do so much, although, I won't slought that thing, it's done me proud on many occasions! But I'm getting off topic, this is a wonderful photograph and you should be proud - which I'm sure you are! Great job
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Your photo has been featured in my journal: [link]
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This is Amazing John!!!! Very cool place you have there! i might be a bit jealous!
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This is stunning.
i also like your tip for the beginning photographer as well. I'll take that into consideration, it's hard to get the subjects I want in a good light but nothing can stop me from finding a good lighting and just using something in the area as m subject.
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Definitely light worth getting up early for...and a beautiful rainbow of colors in this, John.
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