Kayak Sunrise

[Plumcrak]

This is how my weekend mornings start. A cup of coffee and a paddle in the kayak as the sun comes up over the lake. The fog was just starting to burn off the surface.
This (as with all my pics from the kayak) was taken with my phone because I don't have the stones to take my dslr out in the kayak

[Shadowman]

Foreground exposure is fine, the sunburst is a bit too large, I would have waited until it crested the horizon to get sharper points. Horizon looks good also.

[DanK]

Nice. I'm a long-time kayaker, so this really strikes a chord for me.

I actually might have gone in the opposite direction: shooting slightly earlier so that the sun doesn't as much overpower the rest.

One option: a waterproof P&S. I have one that must be 5 years old by now, and there are much better ones now. I sometimes just stick it in a pocket on my PFD. Here is a late afternoon shot with it. The perspective makes the boat look short and fat. It's actually a very skinny boat and almost 18 feet long.



I sometimes stick my older SLR with a telephoto lens into a dry sack and stick it between my knees. I then take it out only when the water is very calm.

[rpcrowe]

I like it - despite the burned out sun!

I know how you feel about bringing an expensive camera on a boat. I was lucky that I didn't bring my camera on a fishing cruiser on the Gulf of Cortez last month. We got hit by a heavy weather front and took green water over the gunnels. I was soaked to my skin!

As a result of that experience, I ended up buying a used Fuji XP-60 under-water camera ($80 USD on eBay) to carry in harms way. Not as good image quality as my DSLR but, it won't be ruined by a wave of salt water...

[NorthernFocus]

...This (as with all my pics from the kayak) was taken with my phone because I don't have the stones to take my dslr out in the kayak

Not a bad way to start the day. I don't get many high quality shots from a kayak. For similar but slightly different reasons. I don't have the stones to face my wife if I were to lose gear that I took in the kayak

[TonyW]

This is a nice picture and a nice way to start the day. I could not predict what would happen but I wonder what the picture would be like when the sun is just a little bit lower or higher.

It has always been a mystery to me why the sunburst pattern appears. Why is it at that angle here?

[Loose Canon]

Nice Jon.

I have been whitewater kayaking for some 35 years now. So I don't have time to get these kind of shots since I'm usually a bit busy swinging a paddle and its a very different breed of boat! When I boat flat water I like an open boat.

So this seems all the more cool!

[ShaneS]

Not a bad way to start the day Jon! Watching the sun cross the horizon always leaves me feeling hopeful about the day ahead

[IzzieK]

I am with Shane...nice way to start the day with your coffee and your iphone. Good shot of the tip of your kayak...

[rtbaum]

If it were not for taking my Minolta SLR on a Boundary Waters trip years ago, I may never have gotten into digital photography . Sure did a number on body and lens!

[Kodiak]

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Very, very cool Jon… you keep surprising me!

[ajsmith]

Jon,
Very nice picture. Glad you are in a lake and not the ocean.

Last week a great white shark 14+ feet long came up out of the water and bit a chunk out of a kayak and dumped the woman in the ocean. Her friend in another kayak also ended up in the water. They were in the water for 30 minutes before the coast guard got to them. How scary is that! It happened off of Plymouth Massachusetts. Guess what they were doing out there? Photographing seals! The GoPro camera is at the bottom of the sea.

[Tom Barry]

I think its an extremely nice photo; it makes me almost feel that I'm there in the boat. At my age (76 in a couple of months), I'm beyond most athletic activities except brisk walking, so it's a treat to see this sort of shot.