Ron Reefman
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I've been a fairly avid amateur photographer for a long time now. I use to do mostly car racing because I raced for 20+ years.
My wife is big into birds and nature photography and over the last couple of years she has roped me into it as well.
Then with retirement we started traveling more and vacations presented other photo opportunities.
Arches National Park just after sunrise gets this orange glow under the arch for about 10 minutes!
The Grand Canyon is nothing but grand views!
I had always wanted one of these views where the further away the next ridge or mountain is; they hazier the view. I didn't expect to see it in the Grand Canyon!
More recently I've been slightly obsessed with the idea of a sun or moon photo where there is some object in the foreground and a huge sun or moon behind it. It's kind of a trick shot as the foreground object has to be quite far away (as in 1 to 10 miles!) and able to be lined up in front of a rising or setting sun or moon. And obviously, the weather has to cooperate and you need a clear sight line from the camera, to the foreground object, to the sun or moon.
This started when a friend told me about a sunset that is visible under a local pier (90 minutes from my house) only 2 times a year. It took me 3 tries to get the weather to cooperate.
This sun set is my first real success. Finding anything far away that you can see in the flat landscape of Florida is a project all in it's self! This is the Sanibel Lighthouse that was almost taken out in late September, 2022 by Hurricane Ian. It is 3.5 miles from my camera to the lighthouse. First is what it looks like to your naked eye. The small spike directly below the sun is the lighthouse.
Below is the photo I had in my mind's eye. It took several evenings of driving 30 minutes to this beach and hoping the weather would cooperate. It doesn't take muck in the way of clouds or haze way off in the Gulf of Mexico to block the view of the sun at the horizon.
I hope you enjoyed seeing a few of my photos.
My wife is big into birds and nature photography and over the last couple of years she has roped me into it as well.
Then with retirement we started traveling more and vacations presented other photo opportunities.
Arches National Park just after sunrise gets this orange glow under the arch for about 10 minutes!
The Grand Canyon is nothing but grand views!
I had always wanted one of these views where the further away the next ridge or mountain is; they hazier the view. I didn't expect to see it in the Grand Canyon!
More recently I've been slightly obsessed with the idea of a sun or moon photo where there is some object in the foreground and a huge sun or moon behind it. It's kind of a trick shot as the foreground object has to be quite far away (as in 1 to 10 miles!) and able to be lined up in front of a rising or setting sun or moon. And obviously, the weather has to cooperate and you need a clear sight line from the camera, to the foreground object, to the sun or moon.
This started when a friend told me about a sunset that is visible under a local pier (90 minutes from my house) only 2 times a year. It took me 3 tries to get the weather to cooperate.
This sun set is my first real success. Finding anything far away that you can see in the flat landscape of Florida is a project all in it's self! This is the Sanibel Lighthouse that was almost taken out in late September, 2022 by Hurricane Ian. It is 3.5 miles from my camera to the lighthouse. First is what it looks like to your naked eye. The small spike directly below the sun is the lighthouse.
Below is the photo I had in my mind's eye. It took several evenings of driving 30 minutes to this beach and hoping the weather would cooperate. It doesn't take muck in the way of clouds or haze way off in the Gulf of Mexico to block the view of the sun at the horizon.
I hope you enjoyed seeing a few of my photos.
