This month has been particularly chilly, but one afternoon between polar vortices when it was only freezing with some heavy wind compared to significantly below freezing, I was able to bundle up enough and make it to the beach. I hadn't been shooting for myself in almost two months, between client work and end of year projects starting in November, holiday sales and a family vacation in December,...
I started playing around with "water panning" last year, a technique which involves a semi-slow shutter speed and camera movement following moving water. While this kind of creative exploration was put on the back burner during the sailing season, I had to opportunity to try it once again this month! It was one of the very comfortable and sunny autumn days early this October, and I found myself...
As a continuation of my attempts at a new kind of water panning, I made visits to the Narragansett Beach and Quonnie's East Beach recently to try and practice the art of incorporating motion into still seascapes. Both evening presented with pale pastels at dusk, giving my frame some pinks and purples to hold on to. I think I've got the hang of it, and I started to even incorporate more beach into...
I wanted to try something new. I came across work by notable photographers Morgan Maasen and Katherine Gendreau and they were doing something a little bit different with their seascapes. They were panning horizontally across the horizon, blurring everything but maintaining a sense of color, ambience and environment. I wanted to try it.So on one cloudy and nondescript early spring day, I found...
Another year in the books. 2013 started out with surf, snow and seascapes, which moved into spring flowers, high school sailing and Wickford Regatta in May. The summer was full of activity from the Sail Newport Youth Challenge kicking off the summer sailing season in June, to the junior sailors, beercan racers, and Newport Regatta among other events. The summer drew to a close with a cruise...
