Posts in Category: sunrise / sunset
This will includes sunsets and sunrises but mostly sunsets :)
Sunrise on Belle Isle
This is on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan (the largest city park that is an island in the United States). I’m pretty sure this is the casino (which I’ve never seen open for anything ever) but I’m confused as to what direction I’m actually facing versus where water is (compared to where I’d expect the colors in the sky). I’ve looked at satellite photos and the few other photos I took at the same time and I’m not really sure (being dark in the photo doesn’t help). I have some slightly brighter colored versions but I like how deep the colors in this one turned out with the texture of the clouds.
(Actually, it’s a state park now, but it was a city park when I took the photo!)
Sunset on the Train Tracks
I was driving through Schoolcraft, Michigan (very southwest Michigan) and saw the way the sunset was shining on the train tracks so I turned around and parked so I could a few photos.
I took this with my iPhone but I might have used the Camera+ app, which allows for a little easier focusing on one area when determining the light source from another. But I don’t know how to tell if it was from Camera+ once it gets into my camera roll (it doesn’t seem to be in the EXIF photo info).
Belle Isle Bridge early in the morning
The bridge is actually called the McArthur Bridge. This was an early morning photo shoot at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. We were there for sunrise and this photo was taken just before sunrise. This photo is taken from the park at the entrance to the park, you’re looking across the Detroit River to Belle Isle itself. The sun is way to the left and out of the shot.
This was shot at ISO 100, f/14 and set for a 1 second exposure, the long expose is part of why the water looks so smooth (see the difference in this cropped ⅓ second exposure photo I took just seconds before. I shot this in RAW with no editing after. I normally don’t shoot in raw (the images are too huge) but I plan to explore more with some post production but didn’t with this photo.
A Detroit alley at sundown
I’m somewhere between the river walk (to my left) and Jefferson Ave. (to my right), probably heading to Belle Isle. I don’t think I’m all the way down by where the river walk ends, I think I spotted the water tower (I’m always taking water tower photos) and headed over there. I wish I’d had another camera with me (this was my iPhone 4), I think I’d have gotten a little more definition on those clouds.
The Sunset from Belle Isle at Sunset Park
The sunset from tip of Sunset Park on Belle Isle. I posted a similar photo (but much closer) photo last October (maybe from the same day) you can see the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Canada. I was just there in the evening a few weeks ago and the sun goes no where near the Renaissance Center when it sets.
Detroit River Sunset
Love all the oranges and that you can see the birds, the contrails, the Ambassador Bridge and a tiny bit of Windsor, Canada…
I’m thinking that I took this from Belle Isle (probably at Sunset Park), but I’m not 100% certain (wish I had the GPS in my digital SLR).