"My FAVORITE SUNSET of ALL Time"

This Sunset taken in East Hanover NJ on 3-23-08 along Rt. #280 East is Hands Down my ALL TIME FAVORITE Sunset that I've ever captured on film. I was driving west on Rt. #280 when I looked to the left for some reason and through this little hole in the wood line I saw this scene. I immediately took the off ramp and made a U-Turn to drive to the access road next to the woods so I could find a place to park and run into the woods before it disappeared. If you've sat & watched a sunset before you know how FAST they can leave, not in it's entirety but just those few magical moments every photographer dreams of where the light is just perfect and the conditions just right for an image like this and then PUFF it's gone. It could be a mear 60-90 seconds so you have to grab your gear and take the shot. Unfortunately I didn't have a tripod in my trunk for some reason (I usually have 2 or 3 in there) so I had to make due with bracing myself against a tree and engaging the VR (*Vibration Reduction) function on my lens to help me out with the long shutter speed I would need for this shot to get the colors just right. I clicked off a few frames and then it was gone, just like that! You could actually see the difference in color hue from frame to frame as the light changed it happened that fast.

As I walked back to the car I started to check out what I had on my 962,000 pixel LCD and what I saw was amazing to me. I couldn't wait to get home to see it on my high def. monitor in the studio. So here it was in all it's glory, my #1 favorite sunset, to me simply MAGICAL !

~Bill Pador~

"My FAVORITE SUNSET of ALL Time"

This Sunset taken in East Hanover NJ on 3-23-08 along Rt. #280 East is Hands Down my ALL TIME FAVORITE Sunset that I've ever captured on film. I was driving west on Rt. #280 when I looked to the left for some reason and through this little hole in the wood line I saw this scene. I immediately took the off ramp and made a U-Turn to drive to the access road next to the woods so I could find a place to park and run into the woods before it disappeared. If you've sat & watched a sunset before you know how FAST they can leave, not in it's entirety but just those few magical moments every photographer dreams of where the light is just perfect and the conditions just right for an image like this and then PUFF it's gone. It could be a mear 60-90 seconds so you have to grab your gear and take the shot. Unfortunately I didn't have a tripod in my trunk for some reason (I usually have 2 or 3 in there) so I had to make due with bracing myself against a tree and engaging the VR (*Vibration Reduction) function on my lens to help me out with the long shutter speed I would need for this shot to get the colors just right. I clicked off a few frames and then it was gone, just like that! You could actually see the difference in color hue from frame to frame as the light changed it happened that fast.

As I walked back to the car I started to check out what I had on my 962,000 pixel LCD and what I saw was amazing to me. I couldn't wait to get home to see it on my high def. monitor in the studio. So here it was in all it's glory, my #1 favorite sunset, to me simply MAGICAL !

~Bill Pador~