This Morning's Sunrise, Finally Some New Photos!

I haven't been sharing many landscape photos lately, because I haven't been shooting many... The wildfire smoke has been bad up here but the winds have shifted, the fire is about 53% contained (not great but better than it was), there were finally some clouds in the sky, and the MySunset app was forecasting a fairly good sunrise. That works for me!

This is Donner Lake in Truckee, California. The trailhead for this hike is about a 10 minute drive from my house and the hike is only about 15-20 minutes. I did have a little bit of a scare on the hike in the dark out to this spot. I noticed couple pair of glowing eyes reflecting the light from my headlamp. It startled me but I was able to focus the light beam from my headlamp on the eyes, they were just deer... I ended up passing about 20 deer total on that section of the hike. Kind of cool but no photos, I had a mission:

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The pink colors above lasted only a short amount of time. I decided to stick around a bit longer and get a panorama shot of the sun actually rising over the horizon.

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Both these images were shot on a Canon 5DS R with a 16-35mm lens. Two graduated neutral density filters were used on the front of the lens in order to balance out the sky exposure with the foreground exposure. These are very high resolution images and can be printed huge!

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Thank you for looking. I hope you are all having a great day!

Scott Thompson
www.ScottShotsPhoto.com



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Electronic-terrorism, voice to skull and neuro monitoring on Hive and Steem. You can ignore this, but your going to wish you didnt soon. This is happening whether you believe it or not. https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism

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@gangstalking the abusive account updated....

Thank you!!! The community can and will overcome.

Look into proofofbrain community! They are working on blocking him at the tribal.level.
https://discord.gg/DzA5q2YATb

An amazing community that you can be apart of as well.

Then the common people muting him.

And if people are getting hit with flags that really are wrecking them? Please let me know. I know friends with @tenkminnows which is awesome.

Weedcash? They are also taking action. Another block or mute at the tribal level limiting this abuse.

And thank you hivewatchers. You are so amazing for defending the platform and housing appeals and helping educate people that have done small little problems. They have been front lines with this fight. They have this issue identified and have removed and my chance at this account getting rewards.

And to the mental health tag and movement... This is a person in need of help and support. If there's empathetic people here and listening to this? Please go talk with this person and see what you can do.

No hard feelings. But this situation and abuse... It's gotten too old and the entire community is fighting back.

I totally apologize. If you flag this message I understand I will accept it and your opinion advice and words.

If you positively vote me... Thank you for offsetting any flags I might catch over this. I appreciate the entire community.

However... This is our stake. Our community. Our platform. We can all grow.

All I ask is to mute him or if you want to flag him back and tell him how you feel. The feedback is important.

And if you are new? I'm be happy to help you set up hive.vote and automate your account. As well as help you find the resources. We can all do this. https://discord.gg/KZPyzXwqpq is the hive.vote discord room link.

Here is my room if you want. https://discord.gg/eCbmskUJWN

The front lines. This is my personal room. And I am the ultimate authority there. If you want to be rude I can ban.

And next.... Hivewatchers has this as a problem and have done anything and everything to help combat abuse in this case. I'd like to personally thank them for the work we don't realize or thank them for. I've had issues and have thrown fits in the hivewatchers discord and won. And they have done some huge work we don't see. They reduced this to the point where it's mostly muted.

And even they are frustrated. The tribes are too. Big actions are coming. The troops are lining up. It's gonna be a little bit of a massacre.

And for the mental health of this person. I'm actually praying and I'm sorry for being frustrated. However... The people affected? And the community learning how to combat this issue? Thank all of you hivians each and everyone of you have me and my puppy's utmost respect.

Not begging votes. And using my resource credits to say that this community can say no. And ask for more avenues to be explored under extreme circumstances like these.

This is a great learning lesson and education for us all..If you need help? Please let me know. Me and friends are totally willing to offset the weak pitiful votes.ill do everything I can to help little accounts get exposure especially original content. And some amazing people on here have done some great things.

Thank hive! And thank you! I completely apologize for this spam.

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I can never get the sun that 'stary'. I guess I'm supposed to fiddle with the apperture, but it never works =/

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Wide angle lenses work best and yup, the smaller the aperture the better for getting a nice starburst effect. Cheers!

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Wider I got is 18mm (Nikon 18-105mm not great). Thinking about the 16-35mm but it's a hella expensive

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The 18mm end of the lens should be perfect. I often go out with just a 24-105mm and that lens will work too. It just doesn't work great when you zoom in. The f22 or small aperture is what is really important (maybe f16 or f18 if it works for the scene).
But remember... it's never really good for your eyes to look through the viewfinder at the sun. I try to use live preview. It's also not the healthiest thing to do for your image sensor.

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Good to know! Because I'd stick my not so good eye in there and mess it up more than it is \o\

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