Field Trip 8: Winter Solstice Sunrise
Winter Solstice Sunrise at Horseshoe Island Park, Halifax – 22nd December, 2011.
The sunrise is at 7:48 am – we will meet at the park at 6:30 am on Thursday to capture the vibrant colours (hopefully) just before the sun rises above the horizon. We will start seeing the colours probably at around 6:50-7:00 am, but the traffic might be a little heavy at that time of the day.
We can expect a relatively mild morning with above freezing temperature. There is a 40% chance for precipitation with mostly overcast. If the sky opens up before or around sunrise, this might result some spectacular colours. As Saturday’s forecast looks better (scattered clouds, no rain/snow, -5 Celsius), we will have a repeat trip scheduled for Saturday. You can double dip and come to both of the sunrises – and if you do, please bring signed waivers for both mornings).
I went out a few years ago to the spot. It was -20 at that time, but some great images came out of the camera that day. Here are a couple of images from that shoot. The sea-fog was rolling in, resulting some magical backdrop:
What you need:
- Your camera – an SLR or DSLR with one or more lenses or an advanced Point & Shoot camera.
- A spare battery, fully charged of course.
- Sufficient memory card or film.
- Just in case: protection against rain or snow – e.g. a rainsleeve.
- A tripod – this is important, please do not leave it at home.
- A flashlight – since we start when it’s quite dark, the flashlight helps seeing the controls of your camera.
- Your creative self – dressed up warmly, it will be cold out there!
If you have time, we can go to a Tim’s after shooting to warm up with a hot coffee. If some of you are not in a hurry to go to work, we can take off to shoot some other locations after the sunrise.
As on the macro field trip, I ask all of you who will join us to post a couple of images to our PGNS Flickr Group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/pgns/
Please bring a signed waiver with you! If you do not have a waiver yet, here is the link to download and print it:
http://www.photoguild.ns.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pgns-field-trip-waiver.pdf
Hope to see you there!
Happy shooting,
Laszlo
