For those who might have missed the start of this week’s posts, I mentioned going out on the morning of Wednesday, September 11th on what ended up being a 90 degree day. This was in large part thanks to the personalized forecast I received from Matt Noyes over Twitter the night before. On Monday, I shared a shot from dawn and Tuesday featured some early Fall colors at Crocker Park.
I returned to the spot of my earlier dawn shots in anticipation of the sunrise and found that the fog had significantly increased. I still had my medium telephoto lens (the Canon 24-105mm f/4) on the camera and decided to swap it out for the telephoto (Canon 70-200mm f/4). This would allow me to zoom in and increase the perceived size of the rising sun.
As soon as I saw the first signs of this red sun rising, I knew I had made the right choice. I zoomed in as far as I could while keeping Marblehead lighthouse and the sun in frame with a selection of boats moored in Marblehead harbor. The fog did wonders for this scene as did the green light of the lighthouse to counter the red light of the sun.
Having grown up in L.A. in the 80’s and 90’s, we had a weatherman on NBC named Fritz Coleman with the catchphrase ‘Fritz said it would be like this’. I couldn’t help but say to myself ‘Matt said it would be like this’ when this perfect scene unfolded before me.
