Spontaneous shots of the San Diego skyline at sunset/moonrise

[Darren Bradley]

As I was driving home tonight, I noticed that the sun's rays were reflecting nicely off the buildings downtown, so I pulled over, grabbed my camera (lucky that I had it) and took a few quick shots.



Then, as I sat that admiring the changing light, just as I was about to pack it up and head home, I was rewarded with a ginormous moon popping up over the ridge line just to the left of me so I got a two-fer on a night I wasn't even planning on shooting anything. Just goes to show...



And yes, I know these shots are not technically perfect, but I didn't have much time so please indulge me.

 

[Pete Askew]

But very, very nice all the same Darren. And I'm glad to hear that you also spent time just looking and soaking it up. Somehow that makes such a difference to ones involvement with certain images. There's a wonderful question posed by a poem by Johhn Betjamen that poses the question about what it is that burns a certain moment in our head (BY the Ninth Green St Enodoch).

 

[Hamish Gill]

Lovely stuff Darren ... you know what strikes me about your photography?
Consistency!
If i see a Darren Bradley thread i almost dont even need to open it to know i'm going to like it!
Its a little frustrating actually, I quite like to be able to comment in some some of constructive way... I rarely find i can ... this time though, I thought i had one in the straightness of the horizon ... nit picking im sure, but then when i look closer i find it actually seems to just be a curve in the waters edge .... damn you hehe

 

[Brian Moore]

Wonderful images, Darren! I love the green diagonals in the first one--they really stop you in your tracks and say "What the..."

 

[Darren Bradley]

Thanks, guys. A very apt poem, Pete. I just looked it up. You're right, too. While being a photographer means I see things differently from most people that aren't, I think. But we can still be so absorbed in our photography that we forget to just relax and take it all in sometimes.

Hamish, I really appreciate the kind words and the encouragement. I don't mean to sound modest, but I honestly am never happy with my images. I can always find something wrong with them. I certainly welcome any suggestions you may have, in any case (but yes, that's just the curvature of the water's edge .

Brian, thank you! It's always good to have some element of surprise in a photo, I think. You can also see our train station there, if you look closely. That building you mention is called the Emerald Shapery Center. There's a hotel on the top floors, but it's otherwise an office building. At Christmas, some of the green rings are changed to red.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Who is ever happy really