I had it in my calendar weeks ago: low-tide coinciding with sunrise on Tuesday, May 21. I picked a location and arrived to Shaw’s Cove just before 5:30am. I felt very lucky, because there were a few clouds in the sky, and the barely waning Moon was also setting. (I had chosen this location because of the Moon; I used an app called TPE that helped me pinpoint a good spot.)

My goal was to take landscape pictures as well as hopefully find some neat low-tide animals. Here are some of the earlier landscapes:

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OK, I lied in my last post… It wasn’t the last one about Colorado. I forgot that on the last day I quickly stopped at a spot I had discovered years ago to take a panorama photo of the scenery. Last time there were cows on the field, but no clouds. This time I had the clouds but no animals (except for a few prairie dogs). Maybe next time I’ll have it all…

Here is another pano that shows a wider view.

Those of you who have been visiting me every day this month: a BIG thank you. Your visits encourage me to continue with the daily posting in April.

The Lensbaby Burnside lens arrived yesterday. This morning it was low-tide, so I took the Burnside and the Velvet 56 to Little Corona del Mar (Newport Beach, CA), to one of my favorite low-tide places in Southern California.
I tested both lenses facing the same subject at all settings; with the burnside it meant using apertures F16 to F2.8, and with each aperture I used all 4 vignette settings. On the Velvet it was just the various apertures I tried.
My observations: my frame contained some cloudy skies, and with F16, F11, F8 and F5.6 the maximum vignette added too much darkness with the Burnside. I liked the maximum vignette with wider apertures, because what was darkened was also blurry (last two images).
F16
F11
F8
F5.6
F4
F2.8

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