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Visiting Michael Sutton down at Cronulla (#therealshire) with some friends (thanks for organising us Ana Andres).

The morning was turning from good to better. The think bank of cloud on the horizon was a bit of a worry early on, but somehow the conditions turned out perfectly. The upper cloud was breaking up whilst the bank on the horizon was blocking the bright ball of the sun from consuming the landscape.

Just before sunrise the pinks gave way to blazing reds. We had these amazing light and dark rays beaming through the sky as both the streaky high clouds lit up along with reverse God Rays where shafts of light were projected up into the sky through small breaks in the heavy cloud on the horizon. Cronulla was really putting on a show for us today. Michael would say he booked in the weather for us 🙂

Crimson Contours

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 20 mm, 26 sec at f/13, ISO 100

It literally only last two minutes from 6:41AM to 6:43AM but whilst it did it was epic!

I’d just setup for a new composition moments before the sky turned to amazing fire, but who knew how long this would last so I dared not move 🙂

I got about four or five frames before it dramatically changed again but I’ll post just these two keepers 🙂

Reflected Glory

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 20 mm, 16 sec at f/13, ISO 100

The sun had shifted (presumably now behind some thick cloud over the horizon – it still wasn’t even scheduled sunrise time yet!)… It got noticeably darker everywhere as it’s light projected into the sky was being blocked. The whole ambience of the landscape changed to a much more moodier feel.

This is literally the very next frame I took – just 50 seconds after the one above – and still sunrise is technically five minutes away…

Radiance

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 20 mm, 13 sec at f/13, ISO 100

Rejoice

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 20 mm, 13 sec at f/13, ISO 100

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