Don’t Ever Give Up
Feb 5th 2010StevenLandscape & Photography
We’ve all been there, waiting for the sunset that never comes. We set up our awesome shot and wait, but it never happens, the sunset doesn’t show up. So, discouraged, we pack up our gear and start to drive away. Then just as we pull onto the highway it happens, the sky explodes with color. By the time we find a place to pull over and fish our camera out we maybe get one or two shots before the color fades. We then kick ourselves for the rest of the night for not being more patient.
That almost happened with this image of the sunset over the White Mountains in California. I went out that evening hoping to get sunset pictures of the Sierra Wave that had formed over the Owens Valley. I waited and waited, but the wave clouds never changed color. I finally decided to give up and began loading my gear into the truck. Just as I began to collapse my tripod I noticed a little bit of color hitting the top of White Mtn Peak and thought I might just get lucky. I quickly got my camera back out and within 60 seconds the sky exploded into some of the most amazing color I’ve ever seen. And it all happened away from the waves clouds I had went out to shoot.
Let this be a reminder to never give up on a sunset. You never know when something magical will happen, even if there’s only 5 minutes left in the day.
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