
Dawn at Crescent Lake



My last 2 mornings in St Petersburg I rose early and slipped out of the house with my camera and tripod and walked down to Crescent Lake Park. Here’s a dawn shot of a nearby street where a man was also up early preparing a smoker, providing a little atmosphere (literally) for me to try to capture.


… with the taxi screen reflected in the window

Real NYers refuse to call it the RFK Bridge, as it has been renamed.










Shooting on a tripod, I set the shutter speed to 1/8 second which blurs the motion of the surf.

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The summer isn’t complete without getting up early one morning and trundling down to the beach to catch the sunrise. More postcard clichés for your delectation!
It was a real pleasure shooting the sunrise this year with my Fuji XT-1 and meFoto tripod. The camera made it a dream to adjust shutter-speed, aperture and exposure compensation, to manually focus precisely using the focus peaking feature, align shots with auto level indicator and instantly adjusting the tripod with the ball-head controls. Everything fell to hand easily. A pleasure.
