Utah Lake 2001

These photos were taken at Utah Lake. This is about a 15 minute drive from my home. It is a very shallow lake, but provides some spectacular sunsets. The water was quite low this year due to our drought so it was difficult to find much in the way of foreground material except for the mud flats at the edge of the lake. One of these trips was timed to coincide with a setting new moon. For a great little program for Pocket PC's (I have a Compaq iPAQ) that tells you when sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset will occur as well as the phase of the moon follow this link. Pocket PC Software

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Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon PE 45-90mm

When I left work there was no wind and some interesting clouds in the west. I thought this would result in a nice sunset. The night before, I had tried the same thing, but ended up walking for a mile or so trying to get close to the lake. This time the planning went better. The scalloped shoreline seems to lead back into lines of clouds in the water. When processing images digitally there is always the thought that the colors were created on the computer. This is as close to my transparency as I could come.

Canon Elan 2, Canon 100-400mm IS

I planned this trip to capture the moon setting just after the sunset. While waiting for it to get dark enough for the moon to appear I shot a number of images. I liked the colors here the best. This is about 20 minutes after sunset.

Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon PE 150mm

This is what I came for. Unfortunately with only a 150mm lens (90mm equivalent in 35mm) you can't really see the moon that well.

Canon Elan 2, Canon 100-400mm IS

Using the Canon and its much longer lens allowed me to get the moon much larger in the frame. I couldn't decide which view I liked best. What do you think? One thing to remember with the moon in the photo: It moves. Keep the exposure short or it will blur as seen here.

For all images from this shoot please check the Image Catalog under Utah Lake Fall 01.