my new Sunrise/Sunset Gallery on pBase.com

Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/100s f/3.5 at 14.0mm iso200

With all the projectrice images I'm working on, I do take time out of my day to shoot sunrises & sunsets here in the Philippines, and I've just put the new gallery up on pBase.com
sunrise/sunset & other colors of Bantayan Island

In the past I've really never made a serious effort to shoot sunrises/sunsets here, but I needed to take breaks & get away from the computer to prevent daily burn-out, and it's also very beautiful where I am so now I have some images - I hope you'll take a moment to go to that Gallery and take a look.

Just as I've had to make a commitment to shooting the children & Families whos images I publish here, I've learned that you also have to schedule the time for sunrise/sunset shooting as well.
...with sunrises, I have to be up by 5:30am here - actually 5am is better, because the sky is just beginning to light up, and I'm finding I'm waking up naturally some days between 5:15am/5:30am, and it's a bit of a rush to get out the door & get down to the coastline a few meters away.

Sunsets are a different animal entirely - where ever I am & whatever I'm doing, I have to remember to start looking at the late afternoon sky to see what the clouds are doing.
...if we have a flawless blue sky here, there probably won't be much color for the sunset, but by 4:30pm if we have some interresting cloud formations, I begin to think to myself 'we might have a sunset happening'

So whatever I'm doing at 5:30pm has to stop, and I have to make a decision on where to shoot - and I prefer to shoot from close to my place, but I try to be spontanieous and creative which can be difficult when shooting from near the same places daily.

Here's the sunset from last night, 2 minutes from my place.
..when I got into the grove of coconut Palms & looked up, it almost seemed like I was looking up at the atmosphere on an alien planet, as the clouds had taken on very weird & strange shapes - but only for a few seconds and then those shapes were gone.

Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/100s f/3.5 at 14.0mm iso100

I'm working on 3 Galleries here on the Island - the projectrice Gallery, the sunrise/sunset Bantayan Island Gallery, and since I also do street-shooting/portortraiture, I'm working on a new Gallery called "FACES, Philippines 2007" and I'll be posting it to pBase.com very soon.

Best Regards,
PJAMES