Sorry, more sunset pictures. I'm sure you guys are sick of these by now, but too bad. As always, these haven't been touched up by Photoshop (except to size them down for the web and to rotate the horizons if they're off-balanced).

A half-second later, and this exposure would have been perfect (the bird should have cleared the horizon). I still enjoy the original sized version. I realized you could get heavy blues if you white-balanced the camera against those orange lightbulbs (I had it set as a Custom WB from my last night-time shoot). Very interesting, and something I'll be sure to continue experimenting with.

This is with a more accurate white balance. The lighthouse you see in the distance is Point Loma.

For the life of me, I still cannot get a San Diego cityscape shot I like. This was another failed experiment (I want enough cloud cover to give it the sense of motion; tonight was too much). I keep futzing with the white balance too - I can't tell whether i want to make the tone neutral or not. Oh well, I'll figure it out sometime.

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This is apparently a very popular song in the UK during Christmas-time; it's been on repeat for me today. A belated Merry Christmas to you all!