This photo is from a place I go to often. It is down the road a few minutes from our house and I like it because it's a small cliff and you can see out over the sea and whatever creatures might be there. I have sat here and watched seals bobbing around and feeding, I have also watched pods of porpoise playing as they moved along the coast. Even when there are no animals to watch, you have the waves most of the time. Most of the time is key here as the last few trips to the coast for me have been pretty calm, waves weren't really there. I have gone to this place so many times and photographed elements of it, but this time I used my wide lens to capture as much of it as I could and used a slow shutter to help with the movement of the water. It took me three trips to get what I got in this frame as the weather wouldn't cooperate. The first two evenings I got heavy cloud cover and it didn't work. I wanted that late day sun to warm up the rocks. This day was another day where to the west wee heavy clouds but as the sun came down, it came through a break and briefly lit up the rocks with this nice warm light. I imagine I will find myself here on another day, waiting for the light to be right, but till then, this is my favorite shot of this location.
Photo of the Week #102
This is The Queensport Light, it's located very close to our house in Nova Scotia and is a welcome sight when you come around the bend after a long drive to the east coast. Sometimes if you're lucky, on an overcast evening, the light might peak through the clouds and get underneath just before it disappears below the horizon. This is what happened here. I have literally hundreds of photos of this lighthouse but I don't have many that I can say I really like but this is one that I do.
Photo of the Week #101
Here I am leaving it way too long to post something here. I mean well and want to post, but life gets in the way a lot these days. This is an image I shot awhile back, 2012 to be exact, in Gairloch, Scotland. These are the mountains we viewed out or living room window, pretty hard to put up with! This was nearing sunset one evening, just before the sun slipped below the horizon. We didn't see a lot sunsets in Scotland due to the atmospheric tenancies of the Scottish weather, but every once in awhile you got something special just at the right time. I loved the way the sun was just kissing the peaks of the mountains but even more, the clouds that are capping each peak. This image would have been dramatic as a full pano, but this is just a pano crop from the original image so it could never be printed big, but I still like it.
Photo of the Week #100
100, a number that I didn't really think about getting to, but here I am. This image is a shot from last May over Port Hood Island. I like to follow storms when I see them developing, it's interesting and you can often get a great photograph by doing so. This day, I had watched a couple of potential sloud banks but the other one didn't really materialize the way I had hoped. Those who know me know that I hate those clear blue skies that so many people hope for. Clear skies are boring, they contribute nothing to the picture. We learn early on in composition, if something doesn't help the image, it hurts it and I think those "beautiful, clear skies are terrible for getting interesting images.
Photo of the Week #99
It seems that finally summer has arrived. It was a long time coming this year, our spring was pretty cold and the snow and ice held on a bit too long, especially for the people out in Newfoundland. Summer, for me, means festival season is set to begin. I have already had a fairly busy year to date shooting concerts, but I have four festivals set starting with Festival Country de Lotbiniere on June 15 and 16. Before going to St. Agapit for the festival, I will finally have a few days to do some landscape photography! I am even more excited for that. I just seem to have such a hard tie setting aside a little time for pleasure shooting, I intend to try as hard as I can to get back to it as much as possible. Here is an image I made in Nova Scotia last September at a beach I like to go to. A simple long exposure in the surf, but I love it.
