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Catch the light as long as it’s there

During my daily commute to and from work, I drive along the east side of a nice lake in Central Switzerland which gives me the opportunity to shoot sunset landscapes whenever the light is great.

On that particular evening in October last year, I noticed the great clouds in the sky right after I exited the garage at the office. After a few minutes of driving the light went from good to spectacular and I was very lucky to be at the exact right spot at the right time. I noticed that sailing boat lit by the setting sun while everything around it was in shadow and I stopped immediately – still obeying the traffic rules, of course – ran out of the car grabbed my camera that luckily had the 70-200 on it and started shooting. I literally had only a few seconds before the light was gone.

That’s one of the reasons why I always have my camera gear with me.

Shot at 5:59:02pm
#126/365 Sailing against the Sun

Shot at 5:59:23pm

#44/365 After The Sun Was Gone

I went to a Astronomy Summer class with my kids and just brought my fast 85mm f/1.2 portrait lens. After the Sun went down, the light went from good to awesome and I wanted to do a wide-angle shot of that church so I shot around 20 frames and stitched it together using the awesome Photoshop CS5 “Photo-Merge” option. I was obviously shooting in manual mode and didn’t realize that my shutter speed went pretty slow at 1/25 so a few of the frames were blurry but I got enough together to create the final image.

#44/365 After The Sun was gone

#26/365 It’s been a long day

It was a gorgeous day again, pretty hot and I stopped by a small harbor on the day home from the hospital right before the sun went down.

#26/365 It's been a long day

#4/365 Under Construction for June 5th, 2010

I visited the construction site of our new house that evening when some magical light started to happen:

#4/365 Under Construction