Last night the sunset put on quite a show. I was lucky enough to be on Bogus Basin road, and captured the following:

Oh, and a little timelapse:
Enjoy!
Sometimes I come across an idea so brilliant I wonder: “Why didn’t I think of that?” The idea I’m talking about here is called the Maven Adapter, which connects a camera to the end of an extension pole (like the ones used for paint rollers or window cleaners). This is incredibly useful because it allows you to get your camera into all kinds of new perspectives: way up high, out the window of a moving car, extended out over the surface of some water, etc. The coolest part is that Michael designed this in 3D himself and printed it on his own 3D printer. Awesome!
I received mine last week, and took it over to the park to do some shooting tonight. The sun was setting quickly, and I wanted to get some shots with my camera hovering just over the surface of the water in an attempt to get the reflection of the sunset in the water. The shore of this particular pond is somewhat steep, and in the past when I’ve tried for this kind of shot I’ve not only nearly fallen in, but not been thrilled with the results. I just could not get the camera down low enough to the water.
But this evening was a different story. I slapped a ball head onto my Maven Adapter, then attached that to the end of my painter’s extension pole. Being careful to wrap my camera strap around the pole multiple times (just in case) I then extended the pole out over the water and started shooting.
Here’s my favorite shot from the evening:
In order to get this shot, I had to adjust the camera on my ball head to hang down below the pole at the right angle, so that I could stand or kneel on shore and extend the pole down and out over the water and still have the camera be level.
If you are interested in picking up one of these adapters, (and I highly recommend it) they are available right now.
I also recently used my Maven Adapter to shoot the artwork for the cover of Missing Lily, a new novel by Annette K. Larsen. Check out her work if you love clean romance!
I’ve been improving my timelapse photography skills, and this evening’s sky provided a wonderful opportunity to practice a little more. This sunset is somewhat deceptive, as it appeared that the sun would just hide behind some clouds as it set. However, just as it crossed the horizon, a gap opened in the clouds and almost immediately lit the whole sky on fire.
It’s worth it to watch this one in high quality on YouTube.
I don’t believe I’ve ever lived anywhere that provided such gorgeous sunsets nearly every day. This evening I missed the best part of the sun setting, but managed to grab a timelapse of just after the sun went down and the sky began to fade.
I created this using the built-in intervalometer provided by Magic Lantern on my Canon 60D using a Sigma 15-30 lens. I shot at 1 frame / second, but am playing them back at 24 frames per second in the video.
Looking forward to heading up into the mountains soon to get some longer sunsets and other timelapse shots.
Several years ago we moved into a house that has some large picture windows. During the summer, as the sun sets a pattern is cast up onto an adjacent wall, which moves with the sun. Here is a time-lapse video of the sunset from in my living room:
I created this using my Canon 60D, and the Canon EOS Utilities software to act as an intervalometer.