02/21/14 Featured Arkansas Landscape Photography–Moonset and sunrise over Downtown Little Rock

Sunrise and moon-set over Downtown Little Rock

Taken with a Nikon D800 Nikon 14-24 Lens at 20mm, F 7.1,  1/20th of sec exposure, ISO 200.  Photograph developed from a single file.  The view of Downtown Little Rock is a great place to catch a sunrise especially if you can find the Arkansas River still to allow for the best reflections.  I made this trip with Todd Smith, another noted photographer in Little Rock.   Todd and I were also very lucky to have a setting waning moon directly over the city. This when combined with the sunrise rise lighting the clouds in the background made for a wonder shot.  Once again the Nikon D800 did not disappoint me in that I was able to work up this from a single raw file, something that would not have been possible in my days with Canon.  In the distant background you can also see a flock of birds that were flying down river.  What I liked the most about this shot is how the sun was just starting to rise and was only hitting the Regions and Stephens buildings.  In the foreground is the Junction bridge and the Main street bridge is directly behind it.  Since late December, Little Rock has been lighting all the bridges at night with a bright red light.  Some of this light is responsible for the color on the water in the foreground.