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Mississippi River: Sunset to Sunrise
Camera: Pentax K-x Photo Location: Savanna, IL and Bellevue, IA 
Posted By: krp, 09-25-2012, 04:06 PM

I recently had a chance to spend a night along the largest river on the continent. I got to the Illinois side of the river just before sunset and stayed up most of the night taking pictures of the stars and observing through my telescope. Then before sunrise I drove across the river and shot the sunrise at Bellevue State Park in Iowa. The weather wasn't the best, but it was still a beautiful area. It was a crazy 22 hour trip with 8 hours of driving, 4 stops, 2 miles of hiking and only 2 hours of sleep. I also got to test out my new Bower 14mm f2.8 lens.






























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I am viewing your set of the Mighty Mississippi, and I just can't click away and move on. Each image is mesmerizing to me in a certain way - I keep going back and studying each one.
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These are extraordinary! Thank you sooooo much for posting!
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Excellent work!

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A wonderful series. You have captured this magnificent river with style. Blue mist is exceptional
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What Stan said. Simply wonderful images.
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Thanks everyone. The blue mist picture is actually part of a startrail/timelapse sequence. So my camera captured it while I was sleeping.

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Really enjoyed this series! Especially the blue mist one. Thank you for posting them.
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