Continuing with this week’s theme of showing images from each of the 5 days of our recent Spring storm, here is the one from Friday, March 8th. If you haven’t blocked out all memories of this storm, Friday was a whopper. We started the day with about 8 inches of snow on the ground. What was supposed to let up by noon ended up adding another 8 inches throughout the day. School was cancelled and roads were a mess.
I was at work but got out a bit early and had the forethought to bring my camera gear with me. I set out from work to try to explore the results of the storm with a first stop along Ocean Avenue, then up to Chandler Hovey Park and finally (I thought) to Castle Rock. I have lots of images to share from each of these stops. Suffice it to say that Chandler Hovey wasn’t that impressive while I was there and I headed over to Castle Rock as high tide set in. Now, in the back of my mind, I knew that great sunsets usually follow big storms but the cloud cover seemed too thick and I may have lost track of time up there on the top of the rock shooting wave after wave – each seemingly bigger than the last.
As I cleaned my lens of sea spray for the 10th time, I glanced to my left and saw the pinkest sky you can imagine. Within minutes I had scampered down and was running to the car. Not five minutes from first spotting the sunset, I was driving back to Chandler Hovey in hopes of capturing the light. As I drove the light got bigger and better. The whole sky erupted in color and I sat there cursing myself for missing this. I finally pulled into the parking lot as the light rapidly faded and ran again to the edge of the rocks for some quick shots.
I had very little hope for any good images as I drove back in a sour mood. It wasn’t until I loaded the card onto the computer that I saw the images had managed to capture some of the amazing color from that night. I shared one image over the weekend as I simply couldn’t wait to show it but saved this long exposure version
One added benefit of longer exposures (20 seconds in this case) is that they can grab more of the color. I actually had to tone down the saturation a bit to keep this from looking fake.