Sunrise light is soft and warm - it makes great pictures. Now that you've
found this great light,
look for something to put in it, then find a good background.
I went looking for sunrise subjects at Shoreline Park. It's winter home for
grebes, teal,
and other ducks. You'll also see white-tailed kites, egrets and sparrows.
But you have to be inventive. The best backgrounds for ducks have been
trashed while
the City of Mountain View finishes repairing the pipes feeding Shoreline Lake.
A male Anna's hummingbird patrolled his usual spot above the island off the
northwest boundary
that terns and skimmers will roost on this summer. But the hummer was sick
of the
photographer, and flew off to patrol somewhere else. Avocets, stilts and
other sandpipers
cooperated around the island: http://tinyurl.com/dl72c
Cinnamon teals took their ease a little farther west: http://tinyurl.com/dy53y
Finally I reached the viewpoint below the 'grandstand'. The cinnamon teals and pied-billed grebes were resting: http://tinyurl.com/9ohkh (teals), http://tinyurl.com/ckbwc (grebes)
All comments welcome.
Mark Bohrer Mountain and Desert Photography www.mountain-and-desert.com
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