Sunset at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, USA

You would expect after 7 days of rain and small craft warning at the coast that there would be some awesome clouds to make the sunset photo standout, like cumulus clouds, or nimbus,  or cirrus, or even cirrocumulus .  But that wasn’t the case, on Tuesday evening February 16, the skies were clear with some haze. There was  small craft waning and the wind  was blowing out of the south south west at 25 knots.  The water temperature 50 miles off the coast was 70 degrees. Overall, the weather was plenty for mid February with temperatures in the 60’s.

It was nice day to get away.  You can tell from some of the photos how rough it was, not as rough as the west coast off of Oregon, but rough for this area.

Atlantic Beach Fishing Pier

Taken with iPhone at 17:18 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/921 Aperture: f/1.8 ISO: Focal Length: 3.99mm

Sunset at Atlantic Beach

Taken at 17:49 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/320 Aperture: f/8 ISO: 50 Focal Length: 170mm

Taken at 17:48 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/320 Aperture: f/8 ISO: 50 Focal Length: 170mm

Taken at 17:48 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/500 Aperture: f/8 ISO: 50 Focal Length: 170mm

Taken at 17:47 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/800 Aperture: f/8 ISO: 50 Focal Length: 170mm

Taken at 17:45 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/1000 Aperture: f/8 ISO: 50 Focal Length: 170mm

Dust at Atlantic Beach

Taken at 18:05 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/13 second Aperture: f/8 ISO: 125 Focal Length: 220mm

Taken at 18:01 on 16 February Shutter Speed: 1/8 second Aperture: f/5 ISO: 50 Focal Length: 180mm

Equipment Used:

Nikon D7500

Nikon DX AF-S NIkkor 55-300mm | 4.5-5.6 G ED VR

Tripod

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