In an effort to explore some new seascape locations I have been slightly neglecting one of my favorite winter beaches, Green Hill of South Kingstown. But mid-January I found myself driving there about 3 times a week, sometimes for shooting and sometimes just for beach combing. With some finicky weather and a slim opportunity to shoot seascapes with broken clouds instead of a dreary gray overcast...
There's a couple of reasons why I love long exposure photography. It forces you to take your time. It softens elements like water in a way that makes them gentle and approachable. It also enhances the color of a frame. Even if the color of the scene is hard to see with our human eyes, somehow colors are boosted and saturated as the camera shutter stays open longer.
While on a recent shoot to...
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...
So I love shooting moonrises now, I've been bit by the twilight bug. I love those soft dusk colors and gentle light, with a bright near full moon coming up over the horizon. You may remember my shots from Qeba over the winter, and although this first one was taken in much warmer weather with a very different color palette, I really enjoyed shooting. It's about capturing the very critical few...
With all this talk about the Supermoon in late June, I thought I would take the opportunity to break from the sailing photography and shoot a seascape. I hadn't been out to shoot a seascape in over a month and it was time to go somewhere quiet and soak in the scene! I decided to head over to Beavertail which I had been sorely neglecting, and catch the rising moon as the sun set behind me. I did...
