84 seconds

i'm going through the images i took late in the afternoon a few days ago...i started shooting about 30 minutes before sunset, and worked for the next hour and a half, through sunset and beyond.  often at the computer the first few images of a session get overlooked for a long time as my eye is more quickly drawn to the glamorous sunset shots :) and this time was no exception.  i got to them on this gloomy grey overcast afternoon when i can't talk myself into going out to the shoot during sunset since there is no sun.  two things struck me as i worked the early images.  first, that first shot, taken to start the juices flowing and to warm up the shutter finger, doesn't have to end up being deleted!

here's the first one from that session:

not bad...some nice light, wind, marshgrass, waves, and some bubbles...

i did not stay with this very long, a couple of more clicks, and then a vertical comp to include more surf:

time between shots, 84 seconds...the light has totally changed, much softer here.  so that's the second thought i had this afternoon, that the light can change in an instant!  one must be there and be ready :)

i stayed with this composition for a while trying to get some good surf, but this was the first of that series.

so 2 "first shots", and 2 images worth space on my hard drive :)