Sunrise over the Mediterranean Sea

Sunrise over the Mediterranean Sea with Yacht Silhouette by Ed OKeeffe

Before the start of this year I don’t ever remember witnessing a sun rise, certainly never photographing one. This summer I captured my first two, this was the last one and best so far. Sitting there in the cold of night in my pjamas on the beach, wondering which direction the sun will appear from and thinking to myself “hotel bed was warm, sun lounger at night, not so much!” You could feel the heat from the sun within a couple of minutes of seeing the first glimpse of red glow. It was a wonderfully warm feeling, and within five or ten minutes of first seeing the sun pierce the horizon it was at the start where you can see it now. Could it get anymore perfect? Yes, a yacht kindly sailed along the horizon.

It’s not all a perfect fairy tale however, I hadn’t looked at this image closely until post-processing it this evening to share with you…it’s blurred! I will kick myself regularly until I’m next on a beach in the Med at sunrise because I didn’t use a tripod! Using a monopod would be fine, and is great for wide angle sunrises for the most part but in the above photo I had zoomed in to 135mm and so camera shake and low light levels became a really big issue. Hopefully you can hardly tell on the above preview, but this means that this photograph will never get printed due to the blur and my stupidity.

3 Comments

  1. It is well worth while getting up early for the sunrise, and putting up with the cold, as I found recently whilst in Paris. The roof top scenes were vastly improved by the early morning light. Your picture may not be pin sharp, but nevertheless is a pleasing shot.Would the yacht have made a better shot if it was in the ray of the sun?

    Comment by eagk — October 10, 2007 #

  2. The yacht was moving across the horizon from the left to the right of the image. As you can imagine I took a number of photos with the yacht in frame. When it did get into the ray of the sun it seemed to spoil the beautiful reflections on the water. Placing the yacht here gave me the impression it was moving into the sun. Ideally it would have been a little further to the left for my liking, but it’s all personal opinion – thanks for the comment.

    Comment by Ed O'Keeffe — October 10, 2007 #

  3. I was looking for sunrise pictures like this so far and You, Ed! It’s your pictures that really close to my imagination.

    I really would like to buy and print it but due to it’s blur so I’m so sad about it.

    I will be waiting for the next one.

    Comment by Passavee — January 2, 2008 #

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