fbpx

Location Scouting for Fall 2019 Workshop

This past Monday my workshop partner David Sokol and I made a trip up to the Franconia area of New Hampshire to scout out locations for our October 2019 workshop. We visited the Inn at Sunset Hill where our workshop is located. What a great place! Judy was a welcoming face at the front desk and Dick the owner gave us a tour of this wonderful facility. We are looking forward to visiting here in the spring and fall for many years to come.

Fall Foliage Sugar Hill
The Episcopal Church in Sugar Hill, NH has a very colorful tree out front.
Turning leaves
Leaves turning color Sugar Hill NH
Foliage, hills and mist
Clouds and mist fell over the hills in Sugar Hill NH
Fall Foliage and barn
The fall foliage springs up behind a barn in Sugar Hill NH

 

After scouting around Sugar Hill we headed to Topsham Vermont. The reds and oranges were not as prominent as the yellows but they were still very vibrant. The mist and light rain put a damper on things but allowed us to shoot most of the day.

Church steeple and foliage
Groton VT church steeple during foliage season
Foliage and fence
Foliage and fence Topsham VT.

Next we shot down 302 to the Kancamagus Highway to shoot a Sabbaday waterfall which was running at a good pace. Dave had his circular polarizer and I had my 6 stop cpl dark from Breakthrough Photography. This was a bit to much for water falls at 2-3 sec of exposure but I made it work. Sabbaday Falls is a short walk from the parking lot and when the water is flowing and the leaves have turned and are lying on the rocks it can make for some great photography.

Fall foliage and waterfalls
Water rushes by fall foliage on rocks at Sabbaday Falls in NH.
Fall foliage at Sabbaday Falls
Water rushes past rocks covered in colorful leaves Sabbaday Falls, NH
Sabbaday Falls, NH
Sabbaday Falls, NH
Sabbaday Falls, NH
Sabbaday Falls, NH
Sabbaday Falls, NH
Sabbaday Falls, NH looking down the falls from up top.

All of the waterfall shots were done in the 2-3 sec range with the Breakthrough Photography new magnetic holder system which I will be doing a review on when I have used it more. It was pretty easy to use and the results were great. The color is spot on and the circular polarizer (CPL) worked great. Taking the sheen off the rocks was just enough to make these images special. Please join David and I next year for our Fall Foliage and Waterfall Workshop in Sugar Hill, NH.

 

 

 

 

 

A Unique Opportunity

Recently we had a great opportunity to make some great images. The sun and the moon rose right behind the Twin Lights on Thacher Island in Rockport. Of course at different times of day. I was fortunate to have some very nice people from Pennsylvania along on a full day tour. We got up early and were greeted with a fabulous sunrise that was a wowser.

twinsunrise-2

I love the layers of color in this image. Then as the sun got higher the colors begin to go more yellow.

twinsunrise-3

twinsunrise-4

twinsunrise-5

Then to make this such a great opportunity we came back around sunset. Of course the sun was going down on the other side of the island but we were looking for the Harvest Moon to come up right next to the North Tower.

moonrise-2

I love it when the geese cooperate.

moonrise-1

In my opinion this lighthouse is so cool. I love the little house and the granite bricks the tower is made of. The best thing is that anyone can find this out when these great opportunities happen. I use TPE on my phone. The app shows where the sun and the moon are going to come up and go down and where it lines up. Great stuff.