The Sun rising above the Sea, pictured from the Black Sea coast

The Rising Sun

© July Karchev, August 1999
Captured at the Varna Bay, Bulgaria, Black Sea coast, with amateur camera

Lat. 43°12' N, Long. 27°55' E
The altitude of the Sun was 2°.

Well, maybe you realize it is not so easy to take a good picture of the rising sun.

First of all, you have to wake up very early in the morning :-) This picture was taken in July, that means even more earlier wake-up :-))

Then you need a coast that faces eastwards. The city of Varna is situated on the west coast of the Black Sea.
It is very important to get the right moment, neither to overlight nor to underlight the picture. The picture you see here is what it is on the film. It was copied on photo-paper and scanned, "as it was", no additional manipulations.