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That is screen saver worthy. Can you tell more of place, time of day, exposure and all that stuff. Did you photoshop? What camera did you use? And especially share more about the experience. Sounds like fun.
4:53 last Saturday anchored up with a low cloud cover. Shot SW with an iphone 4s and cropped 16:9 aspect ratio and added a "noir" filter iphone has. Emailed the image to myself on Monday and resized the image in photoshop ( 1280 pix wide ) and saved it for the web. No retouching. FTPed the file to my website. Giving the images to anyone to use if they'd like as a screensaver, kinda hoping they will do the same so I can see what other places look like. Others have but always fun to see more.
So.. this image is not a night shot but is a representation of what night sailing looks like to me with a full moon and a broken cloud cover..
I slept some before evening, anticipating a night sail, and watched a really cool sunset. The local club was out on the patio celebrating the days races and I listened to a really good PHC on the radio. Then pulled anchor just before full dark sailing on a sliver of a moon and a thin cloud cover, with little wind at first and then building into the night to 10-15 from the NE.. one SUP board was out and I passed one other sailboat that night, tacking upwind as I passed jibing a cruising chute downwind. A ghost ship... I've sailed this lake for over 20 years.
The fun part at the end of the evening was sailing up into the lee of an island to set anchor for the evening.. Shooting into the still area, dropping sails and one anchor as the boat glides in windless and the second as she stops, far enough away from shore for depth, and yet close enough for shelter from the wind. Found an unexpected deep hole at 50 feet close to shore. The bank had rocks extending out. The weather radio predicted rain for the morning, but Launchcode weather said afternoon, but either way a steady E wind.
Always memorable... Every time I think of it I hear REMs Night Swimming song in my mind. Back to studying the electronic charts now to look at the depths of that anchorage...
Been awhile since I have been on the forum Decided to do a sunset sail out of Muskegon on to Lake Michigan and shot this video for you tube enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FO0Mp4vjEs
Been awhile since I have been on the forum Decided to do a sunset sail out of Muskegon on to Lake Michigan and shot this video for you tube enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FO0Mp4vjEs
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