May 5, 2008; Day 3. My kitchen looks east over the Merrimack River valley, which gives me great access to each day’s sunrise. This is particularly true when the leaves are down. Early morning fog and the still-small spring leaves prompted me to try a hand-held HDR shot of the sun burning through the fog.

This wasn’t as good as I had hoped. First, I should have noticed the dead branch. Second, I should have been more careful with the compositional preciseness between each exposure…Photomatix had trouble with the alignment. Despite the flaws, this is very close to capturing the beauty of the scene I saw. It’ll do!

May 5, 2008; Day 3. My kitchen looks east over the Merrimack River valley, which gives me great access to each day’s sunrise. This is particularly true when the leaves are down. Early morning fog and the still-small spring leaves prompted me to try a hand-held HDR shot of the sun burning through the fog.

This wasn’t as good as I had hoped. First, I should have noticed the dead branch. Second, I should have been more careful with the compositional preciseness between each exposure…Photomatix had trouble with the alignment. Despite the flaws, this is very close to capturing the beauty of the scene I saw. It’ll do!