Entrance sign to the Pier.

Since it was somewhat foggy and cloudy I decided to make this picture B&W. This was taken on the 26th of December.

On the 31st there was a little more color but not much in the way of a sun.

Here again on the 31st - to get a little more color I shot a 7 shot HDR image - you can tell by the flag.

Going on the other side of the pier you can see what little color there was.

Here I once again made a 7 shot HDR image to remove all the dark black shadows in the upper part of the image.

On the 1st I finally saw a little sun.

But it still was very cloudy on the 1st.

The remaining shots were all taken on the 3rd of January very early in the morning just as the sky was starting to brighten.

The sky was very colorful but since it was still dark my exposure was 30 seconds long.

This is similar to the last one - again a 30 second exposure at f/22.

I decided to use my 10 stop ND filter and you will not how the ocean smoothed out as this was a 4 minute exposure.

Another 30 second exposure showing the beautiful colors of the sky and reflection off of the ocean.

As the sun came up so did the contrast.

And one final shot - I was trying to get the sun to flare into a star but even at f/22 I was not able to do it. Maybe someone can tell me what I could have done without adding a star filter.