Day 22 – Sunrise

On the same day as the wedding, I had my 2nd Institute of Photography field trip. An early start, we met on Sandymount strand to try and capture the sunrise ‘blue moment’ – a phenomenon in photography whereby the sky can be recorded as an almost supernaturally deep blue. It can look almost artificial at times, and it happens just before sunrise and just after sunset on clear days.

Unfortunately, there was too much cloud around on Saturday morning, so we changed tack and went for dramatically long shutter speeds in order to capture the flow of the clouds above the sea. I had just about packed my camera back into the car when I saw this momentary peeking-out of the sun.

Just goes to show, when you think it’s all over, it really isn’t!