Early morning at East beach

Some shots from a morning walk along East beach here in New Bedford.
its a nice Wide Sandy Beach that runs from the Harbor Walk to Fort Taber and there was some lovely light and colors this morning when I visited there.

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If your wondering whats in the water, there was a water amusement park set up there for quite a while,, I went past there the other day and thats gone now, but the wide beautiful sandy beach is still there and nice to visit, I imagine it gets popular on a nice sunny day with many people enjoying the beach and water.

Getting to here and Fort Taber for sunrise is a bit of a pain, I got the beach parking permit for here, but across from the beach there are two reasonable sized car parks and Fort Taber itself has lots of parking, BUT....

Fort Taber gates do not open till after sunrise it seems, or just on sunrise and for my morning walks and sunrise shots I like getting tot he spot at least half an hour before the sun rises.

Now you may think thats not a problem as I mentioned car parks across the road from the beach, well seems they do not open early either they have chains blocking the entrance to the car parks.

Now the morning I took these shots I found a street opposite the pier shown in the first shot that did not have the no Parking or Resident only parking signs that most of the streets have so parked there and walked the beach and around Fort Taber, but the next time I went there seems all the streets have no parking signs, so either i missed them last time and parked illegally, or they just added them.

OK lets get back to the beach, this is at the same spot as the last shot but looking the opposite direction towards Fort Taber, the lights you can see coming across the water is the Pier at Fort Taber.

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A bit further along the beach looking back to enjoy the nice colors showing prior to the sunrise

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And this is how I know this beach is called East beach

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And a last shot of the lifeguard tower in front of the Fort Taber Pier with some nice subtle but warm colors in the sky

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Now I will just justify and probably for myself as I am sure not many will scroll down and read this, but for my peace of mind I will say it.
I have been lucky to get some nice upvotes occasionally on my posts, which has lead to a few comments.
Comments like its only 5 photos how did you get so many votes on it with so little effort on the post.

Well here's my thoughts on that, I go out most days for at least an hour finding spots I think are interesting to take photos of, then when I get home I go through the photos I took, selecting which ones to edit.
Now editing photos can take time, when you take photos with a cell phone or even with a camera set on jpg mode it does the editing for you, I shoot in what is called RAW mode which means the camera captures all the data but does no adjustments.
I choose to spend time editing the photos myself, and depending on the type of photo, can take anything from a few minutes to 15 Minutes or more per photo.
So to me I am putting effort and time into my posts, its not as some thinK or say, your camera does amazing, sure it does but it has some help from me, in knowing the settings and then in editing.

and that's it, no need to comment on this I just needed to express it and let it go :)