I have a long "To Do List" of things to shoot and places to go. It's a self assigned Project List to keep me busy and preoccupied during the winter months. One of the items on this list has been to photograph more Rhode Island Lighthouses and to visit Sakonnet Point. I hadn't visited Sakonnet since my junior sailing days back in high school when a couple of Laser events were hosted out of Sakonnet...
It's been a chilly December thus far, and luckily we've actually had some snow! I have a hard time appreciating frigid conditions unless there is some fluffy white snow to beautify the scenery. While it's only been a couple of dustings so far, I'm still glad to have a proper winter compared to a couple years ago when there was no snow to speak of. I made my way to a couple of Wickford locations...
Summer's gone and the cold weather is moving in. But while the weather was pleasant enough to venture outside without a third coat, I made a trip through South County to shoot my first seascapes of the season. First up was Matunuck beach on a cold and windy day. Even though sunset was a couple hours away, the cloudy conditions reduced the sunlight enough to allow me to shoot some long exposures....
The last shots from Block Island and Profundo Journeys... After our Cormorant Cove morning shoot, we had an afternoon hike through Dorry's Cove on the west side of the island. I was trekking for almost an hour across the beach, stopping every now and again to take some high noon long exposures with that B+W #110 heavy duty neutral density filter. The longer daytime exposures certainly amped up the...
Our last morning on Block Island was spent at Cormorant Cove for a sunrise shoot where there were ample shooting opportunities for views towards and away from the rising sun. I chose a location along a dock to capture the morning light, and setting my camera to Daylight White Balance, everything was warmed up rather nicely! We walked the mile or so stretch of dirt road up the hill to a nearby...
