light trails

Good Morning

As you may know I often head out early morning well before the sunrise, hoping for a nice sunrise, and while strolling waiting for the sun to rise I may try and get some photos of light trails from cars, something i enjoy catching and seeing.

and thats what this post is about, of course with long exposures and on a tripod is always possible they may not come out as initially planned, so this post will include some I feel came out well, some not so much and even one light trail I was not trying for.

This first one comes under the category I wasn't trying for a light trail
the other morning it was raining most of the night and I didnt expect to get out for a walk, but then at about 10 past 5 in the morning i heard the rain stop so decided to head downtown to the historic district thinking after the rain could be a good time to get some shots of the cobblestone roads.

Which I was focusing on for this shot the cobblestone streets and the light son in the Restaurant and a car came driving by.

the lights on in the top floor of the restaurant seems to be some sort of gym or something I saw some ladies working out in there

^{Sony A7iv 21mm F10 20 Sec ISO 100}
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NOw this next one is under the Oops category, was trying for the shot above and a car started coming along the road towards me during the long exposure so I had to quickly move me and the camera and tripod off the road.

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This was on the same morning, before i walked from the port to the historic district, stopped before crossing the road to get this shot

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This was from another day this past week, another very foggy morning which most mornings have been this week, and again I parked by the port but walked to a parking garage and up to the top floor and saw this view

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this was another day and I forget exactly where i was but liked the two levels of light trails

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now this is the same view as an earlier photo in this post but on a different day I went with selective coloring for this photo

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and a different sort of light trail, I was on the Hurricane barrier wall on the Fairhaven side and saw this fishing boat heading through the gap between the walls and heading out, now this is a bit of a I didn't get it right shot, I should have perhaps done a longer exposure to gets its trail right across the image.

and I was going to crop it to give that effect but funnily enough I preferred it ending stopping part way through