Another trip to Green Hill, except this time my jaw dropped when I came over the sand dune to see the beach. Everything was eroded. I know winter erosion happens, sands shift, and beaches become steep, but I was here a month or so ago and it didn't look anything like this! The sloping beach was replaced by a steep decline. Waves were no longer breaking parallel to the beach but at all sorts of odd...
Yay, surf! It was the first big surf of 2013 and I'm sure the surfers were happier about it than I was. The 1,000 mile long storm at the end of January stretched from Florida to New England. As warm spring collided with cold winter, tornadoes arrived in Georgia and swell came to RI. It was 6-8' from the southwest with a strong west southwest breeze. Watching the forecast all week it looked like...
So there was this day in December just before Christmas when it was blowing about 40 knots and the clouds were trying to decide whether they wanted to snow or not. And I went out shooting! First it was to this little spot along Route 1A for some of the surf. The surf was up to about 5+ with a nice offshore breeze but a lot of the usual places were pretty crowded, so a few friends of mine used...
We aren't unaccustomed to brutal winter weather. I'd like to think New Englanders can actually be rather resistent to the constant flux of weather patterns we experience. But at the end of October we met Hurricane Sandy face to face, and many people we surprisingly unprepared. (I still can't believe just a Category 1 could cause so much damage. I guess size does matter!) Then only a week or so...
Also on my list of places to visit has been Point Judith Light for a morning long exposure shoot. After coming across, greatly admiring, and then meeting seascape photographer Ed King of 02809 Photography, I have been deeply inspired to further practice and refine my own seascape shooting. I headed to PJ the morning after our first frost. I headed down the beach to find my best vantage point....
