Friday's Focus - 2019/07/12 - Sun in the Landscape

[JimFox]

Our Focus this week might be a little harder to find. It's going to Focus on those Landscape Photos where the Sun is actually in the Photo.

Usually we avoid shooting directly into the sun unless we are going for sun stars. Now sun stars are okay for our Focus today, but I am sure there are other times where the Sun was included in the composition and it wasn't producing sun stars.

I had to actually dig for a bit before I could find any of mine.

* Add your Sun in the Landscape photos to this Thread.

Jim

PS. I will start with a few.

#1 - Strand Beach in Dana Point

#2 - Little Corona

#3 - Partial Eclipse in 2012, shot through my welding helmet. This is why I skipped the most recent eclipse because I was underwhelmed by how this partial eclipse looked. Boy, was I wrong.

#4 - Northern California

 

[Jim Dockery]

Nice shots Jim, I really like #1.

I shoot into the sun quite often. These are all in the gallery so you can click through to see larger.

Lk-Stevens-Sunset-5.26.19110-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 27, 2019

Sunset over Lake Stevens, drone view

Home-drone-sunrise-5.16.19-01-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 16, 2019

Sunrise Over Cascades, drone view

Pilchuck-Sunset-(142)

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 19, 2018

Sunset from Mt. Pilchuck

StHelensRainierPano

• Jim Dockery
• Feb 10, 2018

Sunrise Pano from Mt. Adams, Saint Helens on left, Rainier on right

Rainersunrise

• Jim Dockery
• Jan 26, 2018

Sunrise from Emmons Glacier

Sunrise from a climb of Mt. Rainier

 

[rfkiii]

Turret Arch, 2016

 

[AlanLichty]

A couple of coastal sunsets from the southern Oregon coast:

Ripples

• AlanLichty
• May 23, 2019

A beach sunset featuring rippled skies and water flows. Harris Beach State Park, Oregon.

Harris Beach Sunset

• AlanLichty
• May 13, 2018

An early December sunset at Harris Beach State Park, Brookings.

and an annular eclipse as seen from Crescent City, CA:

Annular Eclipse

• AlanLichty
• Jul 12, 2019

Annular eclipse as seen from Crescent City, CA.

 

[Jeffrey]

The Serengeti, Tanzania

Santa Barbara, CA

Lewis & Clark Wilderness, Montana

The Escalante, Utah

 

[Ben Egbert]

A few of mine.

190422-10261-5DS R Crop Copy

• Ben Egbert
• May 29, 2019

170513-2107-5DS R Pp Sharp A 16x9

• Ben Egbert
• Nov 16, 2017
• 2

120730-8043-mk3 Besn Combine Colpop LS Copy

• Ben Egbert
• Nov 10, 2017
• 2

 

[MonikaC]

Nice shots, everyone!
This is from just about the first time I picked up a camera ('08). Down in Baja, looking for whale sharks (we didn't see any).

 

[Avi Dobzinski]

A start of a very hot day, Dead Sea

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Wow, there are a plethora of great images here. Here are a few of mine.

Sunrise in a prairie in Illinois.

Sunset in Rockefeller Grove at Humboldt Redwoods State Park, CA

 

[Kyle Jones]

Here are a few - with one sunstar

1) Yulong River in China

2) Second Beach

3) Eagle Falls and Lake Tahoe

 

[JimFox]

A few of mine.

190422-10261-5DS R Crop Copy

• Ben Egbert
• May 29, 2019

170513-2107-5DS R Pp Sharp A 16x9

• Ben Egbert
• Nov 16, 2017
• 2

120730-8043-mk3 Besn Combine Colpop LS Copy

• Ben Egbert
• Nov 10, 2017
• 2

Ben, these are great. But especially #3. That one is really so awesome! Maybe one of the better photos I have ever seen ever.

 

[JimFox]

A start of a very hot day, Dead SeaView attachment 19875

Hey Avi, this is a very cool shot! I liked the one you posted in your intro thread, but what's cool with this one besides the sun is having the woman in it. She really helps to give both scale and a sense of understanding as to how deep the water is. Are there tides there? does the water recede to where the umbrella is able to be used for shade and laid underneath?

 

[MonikaC]

Nice shots Jim, I really like #1.

I shoot into the sun quite often. These are all in the gallery so you can click through to see larger.

Lk-Stevens-Sunset-5.26.19110-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 27, 2019

Sunset over Lake Stevens, drone view

Home-drone-sunrise-5.16.19-01-Pano

• Jim Dockery
• May 16, 2019

Sunrise Over Cascades, drone view

Pilchuck-Sunset-(142)

• Jim Dockery
• Sep 19, 2018

Sunset from Mt. Pilchuck

StHelensRainierPano

• Jim Dockery
• Feb 10, 2018

Sunrise Pano from Mt. Adams, Saint Helens on left, Rainier on right

Rainersunrise

• Jim Dockery
• Jan 26, 2018

Sunrise from Emmons Glacier

Sunrise from a climb of Mt. Rainier

Love that pano, Jim. Hope you have it printed big somewhere!

 

[Avi Dobzinski]

Many thanks Jim, there are no tides, the water does not recede, since the water has very high content of salt, your body floats effortlessly, so people are floating under the umbrella...

 

[Ken Rennie]

I am not a lover of sun stars or flare and try to avoid them or clone them out if I can't. I realise that I am probably in a minority of one. No cloning in this image just being in place long before sunrise and taking the shot before then sun had burned through the morning mist and sent the dynamic range into the unmanageable The second image from Yorkshire and this time a sunset with the sun sinking into the murk. Ken

 

[Jim Sanderson]

What a great set of pictures. Here’s my contribution, Egrets At Sunrise.

 

[dan swiger]

Here are a couple, not recent
Toroweap 2014

Solar eclipse 2017

 

[Vieri]

Here are my suns:

Gaztelugatxe, Spain:

Londrangar, Iceland:

Madonna di Vitaleta's Church, Tuscany:

Elgol, Isle of Skye:

Thank you for viewing, best regards

Vieri

 

[JimFox]

Many thanks Jim, there are no tides, the water does not recede, since the water has very high content of salt, your body floats effortlessly, so people are floating under the umbrella...

How interesting! That would be cool to do some day.

 

[JimFox]

What a great set of pictures. Here’s my contribution, Egrets At Sunrise.

View attachment 19893

Love it Jim!