Unless the weather is really lousy out I try to take about an hour walk around Rockport or Gloucester looking for interesting images. Last week I decided to also film it for my weekly vlog on YouTube. It was a fun experience and more like what I like to do photographically. I’m not really much of a tripod guy but I do try and get out for some stick landscape work once in a while. This particular morning the light was find of flat and it was kind of foggy but I enjoyed it just the same. I used a fun Fuji rig for this shoot the Fuji X-T30 and the XF 16-80.
Here are some of the images from the shoot.
Rockport lobster boats wait to go out.
Colorful work dinghy’s sit idle at the Rockport town wharf.
Dinghy’s waiting at the Rockport Town Wharf form interesting triangles.
Colorful reflections Rockport Harbor.
Lobster traps and buoys wait to be used behind Bearskin Neck in Rockport.
A potted plant dies away with old lobster buoy’s and fish netting behind Bearskin Neck.
Old wooden lobster trap and buoys behind Bearskin Neck in Rockport.
Cut off Chorox bottles and a pale sit inside a row boat filled with water.
Here is the YouTube video on my Foggy Morning Shoot
Every year a friend and I try to make it up to New Hampshire, Vermont, or Maine for foliage season. Hitting the color just right can be a hit or miss proposition as wind storms and rainy weather tend to knock the color out of the trees. This year we were pretty lucky as we were able to make it up there when the color was not totally gone. Here are a few images from our trip. At the end of the post there is a link to one of the videos I made about the experience.
Colorful leaves swirl around in a circle at the bottom of a waterfall.Water flows down into the Basin in Franconia Notch.Bright yellow birch leaves stand out against a dark shaded mountain side in Franconia Notch New Hampshire.Colorful fall leaves reflect on Lake Chocorua.Mt. Chocorua reflects in the lake that bears it’s name along Rt. 16 in NHFall colors along the Kancamagnus Highway in New Hampshire.
A couple of weeks ago I gave two women a morning tour in Rockport and Gloucester. We were able to come up with some outstanding images and at least two I’m really proud of. I can also say that both participants also made some outstanding images. Truly a great tour. All that being said – I am very frustrated at an image we waited 30 minutes for. The tide was on it’s way in and was not quite filling the tidal pools like we wanted. So we waited! I had my composition set but ready to move if the water did not pan out like I thought it would. No worries we were ready! Then it happened – a couple of rogue waves came in and almost got us but did just what we were looking for. I was very excited for everyone as the water finally did what we wanted it to do. I did not see the glaring error until I got home and processed the images from the day.
Waves along the back shore in Gloucester fill tidal pools in the rocks.
Everything was on target, the soft swirls in the bubbles, water flowing nicely over the rocks, everything is pin sharp – just beautiful! And then I saw it, the Twin Lights of Thacher’s Island are not centered in between the two rocks at the top of the frame. Yikes how could I miss that! Well – by not paying attention to detail is how. I was concentrating so much on the foreground I ignored where the two lighthouses were. I remember thinking about it but they were so small on the LCD I did not see where they were. Uggggh! Lesson learned, make sure all your elements are in the right place. I should have been a couple of feet to my right and both lighthouses would have been totally visible.
