We were staying at a hotel on Virginia Beach, and even though it looked like sunrise was going be a little flat on this morning, we went down to the beach anyway. We always try to arrive at our destination at least 45 minutes before sunrise so we’ll be there for civil sunrise– that’s when the rich brilliant of sunrise are happening. The sky was a nice deep orange, but there were just a few small clouds, so not a very dramatic sunrise. As we walked down the beach, I saw from a distance that the lights above and below the 14th Street Pier were coloring the water. I fired off one shot...

Back to landscape panoramas today. This is a pretty amazing sunrise on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. I’m prety sure that this was at Tunnel Overlook, what really caught my eye here was the silhouettes of the trees against the yellows of the sunrise, the heavy clouds added a lot dram to the composition. Don’t forget that we’ll be at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend with Craftmens...

This is the first sunrise that greeted us on our first visit to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. We had planned our trip to be at the beginning of the season — well before the Salt Water Cowboys had their pony round-up. The pony swim/round-up is probably the most popular event on the island. The popularity of the Chincoteague pony dates, in large part, from the children’s novel Misty of Chincoteague We had the whole place nearly to ourselves, especially at sunrise. And, judging by the number of T-shirts, posters and souvenirs celebrating the size and number of mosquitoes, I think we...

This is the companion to yesterday’s Photograph of the Day. One of the great things about sunrise is that you rarely ever know what’s in store for you on any particular day. This is especially true when you travel 8 hours to get to a location an hour before dawn. Weather and cloud cover predictions are as accurate as always — about a 50% chance of accuracy (to borrow a phrase from the meteorologist’s bag of predictions). If there is no impending or active storm system in an area, I have always found it best to take a chance and make the...

Today’s panorama is the last in this series of portrait orientation panoramas. This is photograph is from an overlook on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. There are not enough visual cues in this one to remind me of which overlook this is. I can narrow it down to an easterly facing overlook in the central section. So the possibilities are Tunnel, Hemlock Springs, or...