Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset
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Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset

Of course, I was in to look for (more) oil. This is a shot I took of a jackup rig and at sunset one evening. I'm standing on the and my best guess is I used a 500mm for this shot. Jackup rigs work close in-shore in shallow water depths of typically up to 300 feet. The three legs terminate in a pad on the seabed. Given the height of the legs above the deck in this image I'd guess the water depth there was less than 100 feet.

Compositionally I would probably shoot this scene differently today and likely not have the run through the middle of the image. That said, I do like the way the sun reflects off the water in the foreground leading you back to the silhouette of the .

The orange is formed by the scatter of the sunlight off the haze, not from any filter on the lens.

Jackup at Sunset
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