Tulip Field Sunrise

Great landscape photos are taken at and around sunrise and sunset.  The hourly weather report for Sunday morning, April 11 showed there was to be patches of rain and cloud.  This type of patchy spring weather can make for amazing sunrises if you get lucky.  Sunday morning’s sunrise was not perfect, but it was still pretty good.  Worth getting up early for.

My day began at 4:30am to make the fifty minute drive south to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn.  There I ran into two other local photographers, Greg and Gary, whose work I respect and enjoy seeing on Flickr.  Together we watched the dim light turn into a glow as we paced the front of the tulip fields searching for the perfect place to set up our tripods.

The above photo is actually an HDR photo (high dynamic range).  I purchased Photomatix software which has the capability of merging several photos taken at different exposures to even out the shadows and the highlights. and give a picture closer to what my eye actually saw that morning.