Sunset in Perdido Key: I was trying some new filters and decided to go back to a location that I haven't been to in about a year in Perdido Key. Unfortunately I was a bit late getting...

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

I was trying some new filters and decided to go back to a location that I haven't been to in about a year in Perdido Key. Unfortunately I was a bit late getting out of the house and didn't have much time to get some of the compositions I wanted to as the light was fading very fast. Darkness and walking on rocks just doesn't mix very well while carrying camera gear.

This was taken about 20 minutes after sunset which a 2 stop grad filter to tame the still very bright sky.

All comments and suggestions welcomed as usual.

Sunset On a Rocky Shore by Tony H, on Flickr

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Yea, without mountains, "sunset" (the light change) is quicker in Florida.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

A wonderful shot, Tony!

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Longshadow wrote:

Yea, without mountains, "sunset" (the light change) is quicker in Florida.

I think we have it a little easier because sunset "IS" sunset due to the very flat sea level landscape. I remember being in Arizona at Ft. Huachuca and the light would just vanish instantly once it went below the peaks. The sky would still be very bright, but everything around us was dark. Very unusual for this Florida boy...LOL

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

UTMike wrote:

A wonderful shot, Tony!

Thanks Mike. I found my own "little" mountain range right here near home...

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

johngault007 wrote:

I think we have it a little easier because sunset "IS" sunset due to the very flat sea level landscape. I remember being in Arizona at Ft. Huachuca and the light would just vanish instantly once it went below the peaks. The sky would still be very bright, but everything around us was dark. Very unusual for this Florida boy...LOL

I've actually seen the "Edge of Night" a couple of times while living in Central Florida. So weird.
If I remember correctly, I think I've only seen it on clear, cloudless nights.
Have you ever seen it up in the pan handle?
Have you any images of it?

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Longshadow wrote:

I've actually seen the "Edge of Night" a couple of times while living in Central Florida. So weird.
If I remember correctly, I think I've only seen it on clear, cloudless nights.
Have you ever seen it up in the pan handle?
Have you any images of it?

Is this what you are talking about? The panhandle, depending on the time of year, has both sunrise and sunset events like this. Around this time of year, the sun sets over the ocean, so it is a very real and beautiful visual effect. I don't normally capture it in most photographs because any and all foreground/midground subjects are simply just silhouettes. This effect gets into nautical and astronomical twilight here.

Last Light Over the Bay by Tony H, on Flickr

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

Longshadow wrote:

Yea, without mountains, "sunset" (the light change) is quicker in Florida.

My first trip to Florida was to a very young Disneyworld in 1973.

Something about Florida didn't seem right to this Connecticut boy but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Then suddenly about 3 days into the trip it hit me and I shouted out, "HEY, this place is flat!" That got me a lot of really strange looks from those within earshot.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

flip1948 wrote:

My first trip to Florida was to a very young Disneyworld in 1973.

Something about Florida didn't seem right to this Connecticut boy but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Then suddenly about 3 days into the trip it hit me and I shouted out, "HEY, this place is flat!" That got me a lot of really strange looks from those within earshot.

Funny how that works, eh?

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

flip1948 wrote:

My first trip to Florida was to a very young Disneyworld in 1973.

Something about Florida didn't seem right to this Connecticut boy but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Then suddenly about 3 days into the trip it hit me and I shouted out, "HEY, this place is flat!" That got me a lot of really strange looks from those within earshot.

LOL, that's probably why youtube isn't littered with all these higher traffic photographers doing their entire series on the beauty of Florida landscape. Apart from the coastal areas, the landscape really makes you work for your shots.

That doesn't mean it's NOT beautiful, just not the massive mountain type landscapes everyone (including me) love to study and admire.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

johngault007 wrote:

Is this what you are talking about? The panhandle, depending on the time of year, has both sunrise and sunset events like this. Around this time of year, the sun sets over the ocean, so it is a very real and beautiful visual effect. I don't normally capture it in most photographs because any and all foreground/midground subjects are simply just silhouettes. This effect gets into nautical and astronomical twilight here.

Almost? I've actually seen a hard demarcation line as an arc in the sky, not at the horizon.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Longshadow wrote:

Almost? I've actually seen a hard demarcation line as an arc in the sky, not at the horizon.

Yes, this one was taken a bit earlier than what you are describing. And I didn't take any of the line moving further up because it just didn't fit the composition the way I wanted it. For us here, it happens between astronimical and nautical twilight. Once we start moving into civil twilight it's gone.

But....lol, and there is always a "but", that may be something I go out searching for with some of these spots I am prone to visit multiple times.

Stargazing on Pensacola Beach by Tony H, on Flickr

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

These are all good stuff Tony! I really like them.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Retired CPO wrote:

These are all good stuff Tony! I really like them.

Thanks much Chief!!!!

I do have a special one with a heron in it for you once I finish processing it. He thought I had fish, so he wasn't budging from his little rocky perch until a fisherman down the beach caught something.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

johngault007 wrote:

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A beautiful image!!! John
But the horizon is not level , the water tilts about 1/2 deg to the left