Leon Turnbull Photography

I mentioned in a priori post that I felt more into bird watching on our first evening in Carlsbad than going to watch the sunset. At first, it didn’t look like it would be much of a sunset because there were no clouds in the sky. Well, I’m not sure what happened, but I was sure mistaken about that. It turned out to be a spectacular sunset that evening. And here I was, over at Baquitos Lagoon watching birds, and no good location there to watch the sun go down. I could see that it was going to be a good one too. I did take this snapshot from the lagoon. This shot is straight out of my camera, just a quick handheld snap with my big 100-400 lens on the camera. It actually turned out quite a lot nicer than I expected. The bird at the top is a nice touch. I think it may be a hawk. There was one circling overhead at the time, and I was trying to get photos of it (though I’m not positive this is the same bird).

After this, I went back to collect my wife and kids who were enjoying the beautiful sunset from the beach. By the time I arrived there, the sun had already set, but there was still a lot of beautiful color in the sky. So I grabbed my camera and tripod out of the car, ran down to the beach, passed by my wife and kids with nary a hello, found a semi-interesting spot along the shoreline, set up my camera, and started taking photos. I’m not sure what happened with those shots though, because they did not turn out very well. I may or may not post that shot from the beach. But I definitely liked this quick snap from the lagoon much better.