Simple Clicks – Sunrise
A different take on the sunrise photos, with the color balance adjusted towards the warm end of the spectrum. I like the effect, although it isn’t exactly true to the actual look of the scene.
Wildwood – At the beach
Just back from a weekend trip to (drumroll, please…) – New Jersey! And yes, it was definitely better than it sounds so far. Mandy and I took a few days away from everything and drove down to Wildwood, where we stayed in an Airstream trailer, spent some time on the beach, and played tourist. The [...]
Simple Clicks – A Cold Morning Panorama
This was my first goal on reaching the lake Sunday morning – shooting a panorama. I’ve shot several at this same location; it’s a very photogenic spot and it’s physical layout lends itself well to panoramas. Especially so at this time of year, when the sun rises almost directly behind the center of the hill. [...]
A Cold Morning
Winter continues here in NEPA with several inches of snow falling over the weekend. It wasn’t the quantity that the weather channel girl had called for, but it was still enough to put a blanket over the landscape, so Sunday morning I pulled myself out of bed before sunrise and headed out to the lake. [...]
Winter in PA – Another Perspective
Now that winter weather has indeed finally arrived, as Brent so aptly noted, it brought with it some great photo opportunities this past week. Here’s my perspective on the photo trip Brent and I took earlier this week. First of all, sunrise. The winter sun may rise later than in summer, but I’m thinking I’ll [...]
Starting the New Year in Vermont, Pt. 2
This is a photo I’ve wanted to get for years now, the Marble Church in Proctor at sunrise. Tucked into the base of the mountain, it takes several hours from sunrise for the light to fill the valley and finally hit the church, so there’s a long period of amazing back lighting. Yet the white [...]
Starting the New Year in Vermont
I started the New Year off in the best way: on vacation with family. Of course, being a photographer, that meant that while everyone else was warm in bed, sleeping late, I was out at sunrise freezing my backside off on the side of a frozen lake. While the sun slipped down the side of [...]
Simple Clicks – Autumn Sunrise
Saturday morning at Bullhead Bay, Lackawanna State Park, at sunrise. Not the most spectacular sunrise, given the mostly bald sky, but still great to be out in the field for it, especially with the fog swirling across the water. The foliage is at peak, maybe just a little before. And of course the dock is [...]
Simple Clicks – Shoreline Sunrise
A final shot from Friday’s sunrise outing, and something a little different. This shot came out of the camera upside down. Why? Because that’s how I shot it, with the tripod’s center column reversed and the camera mounted with the hotshoe only inches above the ground. Perspective changes everything; I’d been shooting at standing height [...]
The Shots I Did Get
So while Paul was capturing John the Heron in flight, this is what I was setting up to shoot – the dock at Bullhead Bay, which is a perennial favorite of mine. Combine it with quick-moving fog hovering low over the water, and some intense purple pre-sunset light, and it was well worth the 5am [...]
