{"id":9706,"date":"2014-06-27T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:45:20","slug":"photo-friday-golden-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2014\/06\/27\/photo-friday-golden-sunrise\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Golden Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8252\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/golden-sunrise\/nebraska\/12\/12\/12\/0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3808-golden-sunrise.jpg\" alt=\"The North Marsh in Valentine National Wildlife Refuge slowly ripples with a gentle breeze from the east as the sun illuminates the distant clouds with a brilliant orange hue.\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8252\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the most important pieces of equipment when I photograph is not my camera, not any of my lenses, not my tripod, it\u2019s my cheap pair of Cabella\u2019s knee-high waders.  If I ever forget those waders on any photography excursion that\u2019s near water I am constantly berating myself for leaving them back in the garage.  I\u2019ve learned something over the years of nature photography, I hate having wet feet.  Period.  When I head out to the Sandhills my waders are quite literally the first thing I pack.  <\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago I went out to Valentine National Wildlife Refuge and I saw a scene similar to today\u2019s photograph.  The problem was I had no waders and I didn\u2019t really feel like taking my shoes off or getting my shoes wet, so I found another composition (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/etherealsunrise\/nebraska\/36\/43\/12\/0\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>).  Don\u2019t get me wrong, I feel the photograph turned out well, I just had wanted to get this particular scene.  This time, I made sure to slip on my waders and headed into the water.  I setup my tripod about 6 feet from shore and waited for the breathtaking sunrise to occur.  As the sun lit up the clouds with purple and orange hues I clicked away happily.  It was a calm morning with just myself and a few pelicans and ducks swimming out in the lake.  Occasionally, my tripod would shake as a fish would swim around the legs.<\/p>\n<p>After about 15 minutes of experimenting with different compositions, I landed on this one.  The light was right and the plants were placed throughout the frame into the distance.  Happily, I trudged back to the shore and packed up my things.  When I headed back to my car I was glad I was finally able to capture my composition and still have dry feet.<\/p>\n<p>Technical Details:<br \/>\nCanon 5D Mark II, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/606804-USA\/Canon_3552B002_TS_E_24mm_f_3_5L_II.html\/BI\/9044\/KBID\/10607\" target=\"_blank\">24 f\/3.5L TS-E Lens<\/a>, f\/11, 1\/8 Sec., 2-Stop Hard Singh-Ray Filter<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/valentine\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/Nebraska\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Equipment Used in the Making of This Photograph:<\/p>\n<p>Waders and<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"468\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/mer54715.datafeedfile.com\/widget\/aff_widget_prdt_generate-2.0.php?aff_num=10607&#038;aff_net=1&#038;size=468x60&#038;mode=m&#038;bucket_num=3467&#038;link_target=y&#038;sid=\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iFrame.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important pieces of equipment when I photograph is not my camera, not any of my lenses, not my tripod, it\u2019s my cheap pair of Cabella\u2019s knee-high waders. If I ever forget those waders on any photography excursion that\u2019s near water I am constantly berating myself for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,119,124,130,29,30,133,44,50,60],"tags":[161,166],"class_list":["post-9706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake","category-landscape","category-marsh","category-nature","category-photo-friday","category-photograph","category-pond","category-spring","category-sunrise","category-valentine-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-landscape","tag-nature","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}