It was April Fool's Day and signs of spring were everywhere. Ice and snow were becoming a thing of the past, the temperature was getting more tolerable and rain every few days meant more clouds in the sky. This day in particular I was rushing to go shooting for dusk as clouds began to roll in late in the afternoon. The sky was going to light up to the west, I just knew it. But with summer suns...
There was another impending snow storm and the forecast was for overcast skies and gray days. But I took my chances one evening with a break in the clouds before the storm's arrival, and headed down to Point Judith Lighthouse. I wanted something different than my lost shot at PJ light but the closer I got to the lighthouse, the more the shore had been burmmed up by the winter tides, leaving step...
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...
Green Hill. A stretch of Rhode Island beach along the southern shores crowded with empty summer condos and beach houses. This little spot will have surf every now and again, and on a clear day you can see Block Island on the horizon. It's nice to have a place of solitude, but this visit was on one of our unseasonably warm days, about 50 degrees in the middle of January. I wasn't alone as there...
