For a few days now, I’ve been wanting to take some sunset photos at the lake shore. Although I love the view from our house, there are always trees in the way. I was hoping to snap something on the solstice, but the sky was completely cloudless, and sunset photos tend to be better with clouds. Tonight was the night. I drove a couple miles north and hiked down to the shoreline, where I waited as the sun sank.
My timing was pretty good; when I arrived the sun was almost on the horizon.
I experimented a bit with lenses, and I like this shot of an old gnarled tree root at the water’s edge:
I managed to get a shot just as the last bit of the sun touched the distant hills.
And then it was gone. But the fiery orange light continued for a while, illuminating the clouds from beneath. A couple of boats passed slowly by as people headed home for the night. It was almost 10pm when this last boat cruised north:
