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We're making the most of daylight savings, which is due to finish in a couple of weeks. With the sunrise occurring at around 7:10am, we can get some photos of the pre-sunrise colours, and the sunrise itself, without having to get out too early.
However, once daylight savings finishes, the sunrise will be an hour earlier, and it'll be a bit harder to get out of bed to catch the pre-sunrise colours!

I got together with some colleagues early on Thursday morning, in South Perth. The forecast for that morning was for a chance of a shower, so we were hoping for some clouds over the city, along with some sunrise colours in the clouds. The clouds were certainly there...but the sunrise didn't produce much colour in the sky.

Here is one of the better shots from the morning.

city skyline in black and white
city skyline in black and white
South Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @34mm, 5 sec, f/10, ISO100

The new Perth Ferris Wheel is lit up at night, is very visible from a distance. We're intending to shoot the Ferris Wheel from the foreshore one evening, when it is operating, to get some long exposures of the wheel in motion.

Several more photos from the same morning are available in my gallery.
This image is available for purchase as a high-quality card, matted print, mounted print, canvas print or framed print from redbubble.com.
Comments:
Bas de Waard wrote at 2009-03-15 17:07

Wow....that's almost creepy. I'm surprised there aren't any bats flying about :)

Martin wrote at 2009-03-15 17:25

@Bas: I was going for a dark and brooding look with the post-processing on this one, and based on your comment, it sounds like I succeeded ;-)

There's no bats...but if you click the image to view a larger version, you'll see some spots in the sky in the middle of the image - probably from the navigation lights of a plane passing overhead.

Chantelle Huizenga wrote at 2009-03-16 00:39

A beautiful picture. I can't wait to see the Ferris Wheel.

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