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Sunrise is always a special time, but some sunrises are more special than others.
Sunrise in a new place, that you've never seen before and may never see again, is always worth getting up early for, which is what I and a couple of other photographers did on the morning that we sailed into Corfu on board the P&O liner Arcadia during our holiday this summer.
Well we weren't disappointed as the light was subtley beautiful, changing through the spectrum of colour temperatures as the sun approached the eastern horizon over the hills of the Greek mainland before finally apperaing in all its clarity and splendour over the contours of the mountains.
Once the sun had appeared, and before it had risen high enough to wash out the subtle colours in the sky I managed to get a few exposures showing everything about the scene that so appealed to me. The bright orange ball of the sun itself, the smokey orange of the sky, the stark sillhouettes of the mountains and the glowing path of light across the calm surface of the sea leading the eye through the scene.
Five minutes was all it took for the sun to rise further and the light to lose most of its appeal, so the few of us who had enjoyed that morning's show put our cameras away and went for the first coffee of the day.
Filename - sea coast sun 01.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 55mm
Exposure - 1/200sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Corfu, Greece
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Lens stabilisation used to prevent movement blur.
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