Sunset on Lake Ontario from Breitbeck Park, Oswego, New York.
Another Memorial Day weekend here in the United States and, like last year, I am featuring a sunset from Lake Ontario. This time from Oswego, New York, which is famous for its sunsets. This photo was taken from Breitbeck Park along the newly expanded Oswego Harbor Trail. The evening was unusually calm.
Sailboat anchored behind the Oswego Harbor breakwall for the night as the sun sets.
After the sun had gone under the horizon, I took out my tripod and took this photo of the large power plant whose stacks dominate the Oswego city skyline.
Power plant in Oswego, New York, on Lake Ontario at dusk.
WOW, What a sunset!
Excellent lightning. -Do you enhance the dynamic range using multiple exposures?
Anyway, its amazing. As is the perfect reflections of the power plant.
These are all single shots. I used manual exposure mode and metered the sky away from the sun to get the correct exposure. The power plant photo is a long exposure of around 15 seconds which brought up the ambient light.
Oh Scott these are gorgeous. The eerie beauty of heavy industry–power plants, abandoned steel mills, Ford’s Rouge Plant–astonishes me every time. There’s another side, of course. There always is. But then, Mama Nature can do ugly, too. I really like what you’ve done here.
Thanks, Gerry. Looks like Babs and I both captured a beautiful sunset over the weekend. I’ve seen those plants in Michigan (when I visited the Ford Museum last year), impressive. This year I saw many auto plants closed that were open just 6 months prior. Very sad.
Lovely!!All of them.
Thank you, Birgitte! Always good to hear from you!
That first one is absolutely gorgeous!
This was not a particularly good sunset by Oswego standards. If you check out my Shop (see link at top of page), you’ll see an example of another Oswego sunset.
All are beautiful, each distinctive in sunset & twilight colors and feel. I really like the power plant shot.
Didn’t the plant come out nice? The air and water were unsually still that night. I cam prepared with my tripod and remote shutter, too.
Thank you, Anna! Really admire your work so that means a lot.
Cant beat photos of the ever changing sky Scott, brill work.
Thanks, IMac! The sky didn’t look promising until about 20 minutes before sunset then it lite up in these colors.
Scott — great photo – NY never looked so good. We used to live in Watertown (my wife is from there). Keep klickin’! Good luck.
Finding a whole group of former upstate New Yorkers here.
Ah, I love the north country.
Great shots. What power plant is that? Believe it or not I used to live near Oswego way back in the 60′s.
Jeff
This power plant is next to the Oswego State campus. It only had one big stack back in the 60′s. The second one (the one closest to the camera) was added back in the 80′s. I have the location tagged on the flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25817345@N03/3569252295/
Beautiful series of photos. It looks like a wonderful place.
Oswego is an interesting place. College town most of the year with a growing port business and fishing and resort town during the summer. Lots of history to explore, too.
Man, nothing I enjoy more than an Oswego sunset picture, and then you gave three! Love ‘em!
Thought you’d like these. We’ll have to make a calzone run soon and check out another sunset.
Man, I love sunsets, they are so varied. I especially liked the first one. Lucky for me Mitch put me onto this blog.
Lucky for me Mitch likes to play online poker with buddies who appreciate good photography.
Goodness, at least you could spell my name right! lol And he’s actually one of my chess playing friends.
Whoops…all fixed, Mitch. Well, he had made a spelling mistake and had left me a message saying he shouldn’t post while playing poker. But, if you say chess, I’ll go with that.
Thanks for fixing the mistake. I wouldn’t be able to live it down if Mitch caught me with a spelling error in my comments. It’s bad enough that he corrects my posts for me. With Mitch around, who needs a spell check.
Wow! I am really impressed with your ability to capture these skies so well. Lovely!
I was in Oswego during the winter last year for a hockey tournament but alas, not much time for photos. We may have to venture down again during the summer and make more time for exploration and photos.
I am amazed at the midwest and western photographers who capture big skies on a daily basis it seems. Lake Ontario gives me an opportunity to capture some of those big skys, too.
If you can, Oswego in the summer has a lot to offer and you can’t beat Nature’s sunsets to cap off the days.
Breath taking. Great sunsets. Love the clear smooth glassy water.