Drove out to Sanibel and Captiva Islands this evening with my youngest daughter, Amy. Part of the Everglades are on fire, near by, and I thought there might be enough haze in the skies to "color" things up at sunset.

While the sun was still up in the sky.

Not a lot of color, tonite, but the Summer rains haven't started, yet, so there's still hope. :)

The picture is a bit burnt, but notice the swimmers if you can see them. The water is bathtub warm, now. :)

Took this photo looking away from the sunset and down the beach to give you an idea why "they" say that Sanibel - Captiva is the Shelling Capital of the world.

If you look up to the sky, you can see the smoke from the fire in the Everglades.

everytime a see a scene worth taking a pic ..i don't have the damn camera...all the scenes in this thread are AMAZING
thank you all for sharing

Heading your way.... :)

Sunset last nite.

Walking the beach with my 18 year old daughter last nite.

Home runs
 

These are home runs man. The second is awesome. I love them.

Just found this one and thought I'd add it to the already gorgeous collection. Since we don't have any oceans around for a couple hundred miles, best thing I came up with was some trees while camping.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...ple_sunset.jpg

This is what greeted me when I checked out of my room this morning on Ft. Lauderdale Beach.

Pretty much the same shot as before from a different angle.

bout 9:15 tonite, looking toward downtown


http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/0...145_100dpi.jpg

Great shot. Be careful standing in the middle of the street when it is dark, tho. ;-)

It looked like a fair nite for a sunset, tonite, but I waited too long to get down to the beach and the parking was non existent, so instead of writing off the evening, I decided to take a chance on the back side of Estero Island, which is called Mantanzas Pass.

Pulled back a bit..

We have a few catamarans down here.

i really liked the stork one, made me laugh

OK, now that is a scary lookin' boat! Of course I'm a land-locked Midwesterner, so all huge boats kind of just startle me.

Friday night I went out to Lake Hefner in OKC and got the closest thing to a 'tropic' sunset I've seen yet. We just don't have the kind of cloud cover or something. Our sunsets NEVER look like Tropicdivers. :(

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...t_1-resize.jpg

A little closer
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...t_2-resize.jpg

Thanks. I wish I could see your photos, but they are r'exed, for me, this morning. Went to the URL and couldn't pull them up in PhotoBucket, either.

I grew up in Oklahoma (Mangum, Weatherford, OKC and Norman). I used to ride my motorcycle around Hefner?? (was the lake on the northwest side of the City) nearly every evening after work. I don't remember the sunsets there, tho.

Yeah, sorry about the rexedness- photobucket's server crashed or something so all my pics I uploaded last night aren't showing up. They said it should be up soon. :(

Yes, Lake Hefner is on the NW side of OKC and it has great bike paths, jogging trails, now it has a dog park, and of course a road around it you can drive on. I live very close to it so I take a lot of pics there.

I guess you weren't too fond of OK since you sound like you never come back! If I had a vista like yours down in FL then I probably wouldn't come back here either.

The more I think about it, it may have been Overholser (I am sure this is horribly misspelled, I might add).

I think your photos are great (now, that I can see 'em).

I lived in Oklahoma from the time I was 9 until I was 26 and that's enough, IMHO. I hated the cold, but was fascinated by the many tornadoes that I got to see while living there. Always kept working my way south... Dallas/Ft. Worth, Austin and then Florida. Haven't been back to Oklahoma in *many* years, but I do have many good friends that still live in OKC, Norman, Edmond and Mangum, that I would love to see, again.

Tonite wasn't much in the sunset department, but since I got 'em, I figured I'd share.

Had a little bit of lite rain on the horizon.

damn I love those tropicdiver ones!!!

Sunset, tonite, on Sanibel Island. :cool:

OK, Tropic- do you take a bad picture, like, EVER? That is stunning as usual. Wish I was there, bet that water is warm.

Sure I do. Loads of them. I just try not to share them. I took 178, yesterday, and have deleted over half of them for one reason or another, mostly because they sucked. ;-)

And yes, the water is bathtub warm, now.

This thread has the most amazing photos I've ever seen!! tropicdiver is the king of sunset/sunrise photos!
I like the other members ones here too. Thanks!!

Oh, I beg to differ about THAT comment. I live near the water and when the 'glades are burning there is haze in the air and together, they help to create beautiful sunsets and sunrises. I just point and shoot. I've decided my 5700 isn't the camera I had hoped it would be and hopefully can save up my pennies and get a real camera and then I'll have some fun.

I just enjoy taking sunsets and sunrises. I've noticed it's getting harder for me to wake up early enough to catch sunrises, tho. ;-)

I don't know if this photo works or not.

if u meant worked as in i can see it, it did

if u meant worked as in works as a picture, i think it is one of the best pictures in the thread. the sillhouette of the fishers, the one carrying the fish, and the sun reflecting off of the waves, all complimented by a gentle yellow background that doesnt take away from it...its amazing

Sanibel Island, tonite, at sunset.

up at our property.....


http://volcano.photobucket.com/album...n/DSC03756.jpg

Another one from last nite.

Tropicdiver......all I can ever say to your pics is WOW! You've got a great eye for pictures and great skills! Keep it up :cool:

tropicdiver: truley amazing photos, where are the paradize you are living in?

Thanks, but it really isn't me. I live where I consider it to be a slice of Heaven (okay, perhaps Hell, durning the hot and humid Summer months and when sweating hurricanes) and I have a so-so camera and I point it in the direction of whatever makes me smile. It is hard to beat the sunrises and sunsets we have here, although I have seen many photos, here, that do equal and at times surpass the beauty I try to share down here in my neck of the woods.

Here's a place I refer to as Tarpon Flats. The water is very skinny, here. It is between mainland Fort Myers and Sanibel Island (on the causeway that crosses the barrier islands).

Well this is nothing compared to what has already been posted, but heres a sunset I took earlier this evening.

http://www.toddfx.com/pics/sunset2thumb.jpg
Click for larger image.

I live on the West coast of Florida so the best i could normally do is all sunsets, BUT next week I am on vacation and will be spending three glorious nights in Daytona Beach at a fabulous resort FREE. My boss decided to pay and I decided to enjoy his generousity. I will post the good shots when i get back

Sunset in Detroit...
 

Not the best pic ever, but I thought I'd throw one out there...

another...
 

here's another quick one. This is the sunset from above the cloudline...

The Everglades are on fire, again, and the smoke was drifting to the west, last nite, so I thought it might make for an interesting sunset photo. It really didn't (man, was I too late for an awesome sunrise this morning, tho). Soot was falling out of the sky last nite.

Looking out from Fort Myers Beach with Sanibel Island in the background.

A pelican sharing the sunset with me last nite.

Two fisherman last nite.

Every nite at sunset, like clockwork, the Key West Ferry returns to Fort Myers Beach.

I took this picture one morning this spring.

<img src="http://intake.net/photography/forest-sunrise.jpg">

Hex-

That's a sweet shot...

thank you. Im just getting into photography. That was taken with a Fujifilm Finepix A303. Its a descent started digital cam except for the stupid dead pixel i just discovered on it.. .grr

I want to get a nice SLR to play with.. but they are way out of my price range right now.

These are really nice pics, I should get out of bed earlier..... ;-)

Sunrise this morning on the Glen Cove canal in Cape Coral.

A full view of the same canal this morning.

Heres a few from Virginia Beach
 

virginia beach

virginia beach
 

virginia beach

It appears like you were pretty high up off the ground from the size of the people at the bottom of the first photo.

Had a fair sunset, tonite.

One more of a closer view.

Heres a few I took at South Padre Island. I'll go ahead and just put them here.

http://www.toddfx.com/pics/trip2/sunrise5.jpg
http://www.toddfx.com/pics/trip2/sunrise2.jpg
http://www.toddfx.com/pics/trip2/sunrise7.jpg

Great photos. Still hard for me to believe it is the same Gulf of Mexico, tho. ;-)

Reflection.

Matlacha, tonite.

Red sky at nite, sailor's delight..

Storm moving into Matlacha.

Tonite was a pretty boring sunset...

Took a couple of photos of some shrimpers...

Last one...

some of mine:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ng/sunset2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...g/DSCN0961.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...g/Dscn0005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...g/DSCN0014.jpg

Great photos. A person e-mailed me, once, and asked if the reason why I had such colorful sunsets and sunrises was because of pollution. ;-)

I'm thrilled to see you have the same 'pollution' that we have down here in southwest Florida.

Great photos! :cool:

heres a sort of sunrise photo

a little something different for this thread

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There are some amazing pictures in this thread, by the way. I really should start browsing this section more often.

This is the only sunrise picture I think I've ever taken, mainly because I'm not usually up or forget about it when I am. And its not technically sunrise, its actually an hour or so after it (we were all waiting on it) but this was the first it peeked over the clouds.

Its very amatuerish, being that it was shot just on an impulse and with a cheap $10-drug store-type camera, not knowing jack about photography, and I could've scanned it in a little better as well. But I don't really care that much if its considered a good shot or not, as the sentimental factors surrounding it are why I keep onto to. Long story.

Hurricane Ivan is supposed to hit here (who really knows) in a couple more days and Fort Myers Beach is like a ghost town (part of the reason is it is still pretty screwed up from dealing with Hurricanes Charley and Frances, also).

Anyway, no one was on the beach, tonite. I pretty much had the place to myself. Was rather amazing. :cool:

There were some really nice colors out, tonite, and hardly anyone else to see them.

The colors that were out were just amazing. :cool:

Like I said, there wasn't hardly anyone around to share the sunset with, tonite.

There was a small storm over Sanibel Island.

A perfectly good beach with a perfectly good volleyball net and no one around to play.

OMG... look, there is someone on the beach with me... :cool:

jesus tropic..........you have some sweet ass pics man..........


thanx for sharin'.

loved ever photo thanks

This morning was a keeper.. :cool:

http://www.tropicdiver.com/newdawn1.jpg

http://www.tropicdiver.com/newdawn2.jpg

http://www.tropicdiver.com/newdawn5.jpg

http://www.tropicdiver.com/newdawn6.jpg

Nice pics, tropicdiver. :thumbsup:
The color is amazing.

Simply beautiful Tropic :)

Taken when I was in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic last week. Around 6:10am.

Well i could do sunset photos pretty easy i says to myself. I am normally awake when the sun goes down... normally. But then i rememberd about these photos

Winter in scotland you get some really really amazing sunrises, and fortunately i had my camera all the times i was up.

And omg Tropic, its like a whole thread "day in in the life of TD", but they are really really purty

Sunrise 1
8/12/03 10:00 am
http://www.houstonia.co.uk/tfp/103-0315_IMG.JPG
Sunrise 2
10/12/03 10:05 am
http://www.houstonia.co.uk/tfp/103-0320_IMG.JPG
Sunrise 3
21/12/03 10:02 am
http://www.houstonia.co.uk/tfp/103-0321_IMG.JPG
Sunrise 4
22/05/04 04:36am - outside my front door. forgot to go to bed then the sun came up and annoyed me:S
http://www.houstonia.co.uk/tfp/IMG_0272.JPG
http://www.houstonia.co.uk/tfp/IMG_0271.JPG

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LOL, no, it's not about me, but I do take lots of sunrise and sunset photos and figure there is no sense in starting another thread each time. :cool:

And speaking of sunrises, I was on Fort Lauderdale Beach for Saturday's sunrise, so.....

It was a so so sunrise, but there were some pretty darn good colors..

I liked the look of this coconut palm.

If you're ever up for a sunrise on Fort Lauderdale Beach, go to the HoJo and to the third floor and to the far east window at the end of the corridor (freebie tip). :cool:

I really enjoy including their weather vane in my sunrise photos, but it means a lot of running back and forth from the beach to the hotel and to the beach, again, without missing too much of the sunrise.

Did I mention the colors, yet? :cool:

Back to one of my favorite coconut palms.

This is a pic of my aircraft right before I started work on a cold Alaskan morning:
http://img80.exs.cx/img80/5093/copy4.jpg

you lucky bastard.........i'd love to have your job man.


sweet pic.........thanx for sharin' eh.

Sunrise over Mesa, Arizona 2nd week in September. Of all the pictures I took with my digital camera on the trip out to AZ, this is the only keeper. Still have a roll of film to get developed, though.

..........

Man, I just discovered this thread.

Tropicdiver most of your shots are downright excellent. Some of them are absolutely friggin brilliant.

There are 2 or 3 that I'd seriously consider buying high quality large prints of. I have a thing for weather events mostly, thunderstorm clouds, lightning ect. My walls are full of those pictures. Sunsets/sunrise would make an excellent mix to my wall prints.

Keep it up bro.