Not everyone will like this photograph, because you have to really look at it to see what it offers. There are no special filters. This is simply a long exposure just before dawn that captures the emergence of blue on the visible light spectrum. Physiologists say that it has to do with the rods in our eyes, but here it appears on the camera's sensor. The shorter wavelengths of the blue light (which also have more energy by the way) are usually first to appear just before the sun comes over the horizon.
My title is taken from a wonderful Jazz album by Cassandra Wilson, "Blue Light 'Til Dawn".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcICh4cC3CE
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Each day is a new creation.
Dawn is the most exhilarating time to be taking photographs. Perhaps it's just perception, but everything happens so quickly. Much more so it seems than with sunsets which seem to linger in the summer sky.
This photograph almost didn't happen. The night before at the little historic town of Swansea on Tasmania's east coast it was a literal white out. A marine layer had rolled in during the afternoon with a cloud cover down to several hundred metres. Sunset was out. So I set the alarm to be up as early as possible and first indications were not good.
A little time after I took the blue shot there appeared a little break in the cloud cover. In an instant the light broke through in one majestic burst (the sun was still below the horizon). If you look closely you'll see Venus peering through at us as well. The lights of Coles Bay and the outline of the Freycinet Peninsula can also be seen. And just as quickly it seemed to disappear as the hole in the clouds closed again.
Perhaps the creation of the earth looked something like this. Strangely, the music I would set to this creation scene is Mozart's "Requiem in D" (K626). I love the music, but there is also something uniquely linked in the concepts of death and rebirth. One day dies only to be born anew at the dawn of New Light.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp2SJN4UiE4&t=69s
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Two variations on the one theme today. Both shot just after dawn on an overcast morning. The little historic town of Swansea on Tasmania's East Coast can be seen in the background. Swansea was established in 1821 on the shores of Great Oyster Bay.
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Although the cloud cover produced a dull light just after dawn, there was sufficient colour in the air. I do like the way the water has that lovely emerald tone. The blue navigation light at the end of the jetty was flashing every 10 seconds and stands out from the other shore lights in the dark.
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As you enlarge this photograph you'll be able to see the rain beginning to fall over Coles Bay and The Hazards on the Freycinet Peninsula. I included some of the history of the Freycinet Peninsula on this photograph:
www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/51143155266/in/album-72...
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