It's good to go and shoot unfamiliar subject matter. Break up the routine with a different location. I don't usually shoot mills or rundown locations, although I have a couple times in the past, particularly during college days in an old mill town. But late in December I found myself with good photo company and I was invited to shoot old mills along the Blackstone. They never know where they're...
Just before the new year, some swell arrived. Brought on by a cold storm this time, instead of the warm tropical moisture that had been visiting regularly all November and part of December. It was the weather just before the Polar Vortex decided to sit on most of North America. It wasn't 0° with wind chill around -56° but it was still cold and windy! I was down on the beach at the surf spot known...
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...
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...
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...
