[ Follow me using your iPhone ] - [ Twitter ] - [ My Website ] ** Check out our new South East Queensland Meetup group here ** About Awoonga Lake, QLD I went to visit friends in Gladstone in November I went fishing on this huge lake, so yeah I took my camera gear, as you do. We stopped on this island and I snapped this shot, just as the sun had gone down. Enjoy. - Canon 50D. - ISO 100, f9, 1/50, 70mm. - Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L lens. - Tripod. Processing - Off camera - Softlight layer in Photoshop 6.0 About November Rain and Guns N' Roses 'November Rain' is a single by the band Guns N' Roses, written by lead singer Axl Rose and released in June 1992. The music video for this song, also released in 1992, quickly became the most requested video on MTV, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography. It features a sweeping orchestral backing and is one of Guns N' Roses' longest songs. 'November Rain' appears on the album Use Your Illusion I. At 8 minutes and 57 seconds, it is a rock ballad in the tradition of 'Stairway to Heaven', 'Dream On (Aerosmith song)' 'Dust in the Wind' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. It is the second-longest song on that album, the longest being the 10-minutes and 08 seconds 'Coma'. Its distinct symphonic overtone owes to a sweeping string arrangement, orchestrated by Axl Rose.Most live performances during the Use Your Illusion tour lacked the orchestral backing of the song (the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards being the best-known exception). It is the longest song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The song peaked at #3 on the chart, becoming the band's sixth and last Top 10 hit and eighth top 40 hit. On the radio, 'November Rain' is sometimes played in a shortened version of approximately six minutes, but many classic rock stations continue to play the full version. At around 7 minutes in, the song fades and then builds into a 2 minute guitar solo by Slash accompanied by vocal chants. This song is listed at number 6 in the The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos list by Guitar World. 'November Rain' was voted #1 on the Rock 1000 2006, an annual countdown of the top 1,000 rock songs by New Zealand radio listeners. It was voted #2 on the Rock 1000 2007, being beaten out by 'Back In Black' by AC/DC.