Blogodocious ramblings of a landscape photographer living in Maine.
Beals Island Lobster Dock
Beals Island Lobster Dock November 2011.
Just got back from photographing at Jordan Pond and until those are done- here's a placeholder and today's picture of the day. Beals Island is off the town of Jonesport Maine and the character of these places is unbeatable if you want to photograph lobstering. Jonesport is still stuck in the 1970's it seems (in a good way), the only really modern thing there is the Coast Guard cutters at the base there. The Maine harbors that I like are the ones that have a bunch of lobster boats but almost no pleasure craft like fancy sailboats or white fiberglass motor boats. And the more gnarly looking the boats are the better- so in those regards Jonesport/Beals is perfect! It's about time to make another trip up there soon. Here's a map link of the place and then I'm out- have a good one!
Oh!- One more thing, Happy B-day Ansel!
Under the Docks
Under the Lobster Docks at Bass Harbor, Maine.
Figured the holding tank drainage looked like a God-beam in an Indiana Jones movie- I don't usually hang out under the docks, but when I do- (supply your own answer here). Have a good one folksters. -Nate!
Bernard Maine February Twilight
Bernard Maine February Twilight at probably something like 180 seconds at f/11 iso 100 B+W nd110 with "cotton ball" skies moving slowly.
Ice Shack Ice Fog
Ice Shack Ice Fog Echo Lake
Still working on Wednesdays seascapes, until then here's another ice shack.
So I got to thinking today on the subject of the social medias and all whereby I've noticed a real decline in comments over on the Flickr and the Google+ Plus mostly I figure either because my quality of share has gone way down- or I'm not quite as involved in the community as I used to be. So I figured I ought to try and make the folk more happy and congenial and all and try and go out of my way to take some extra time in my day and go over and show my support for the work of others. Here's the thing- where the photo sharing sites used to be hugely important to my forming a personal vision, these days I'm trying to actually work on my own work more and even sometimes limit my exposure to what other people are doing to a point, so I'm less on the "huzzahs" and more on the "where am I going" kind of things. So then I thought to myself- if no one ever commented or liked or plus one'd an image I shared, or if no one ever read the words I wrote would I keep making them? Right. As far as I'm concerned- I would certainly keep photographing and probably if there were no other visual comparisons then ultimately I would surely find my own voice because I would be the only photographer in my known world! But I definitely wouldn't attach many words to the cause..
Let's take a step back for a second and consider this from another angle: I used to study music and endeavored to be a performer, so, if I didn't study what was being regarded as the best music then what language would I speak? how would I even approach tuning my instrument? This suddenly is going a little further then I imagined to take it, nonetheless, it's always important to check up on where the state of your art is going- my question is: to what end?
Whatever that- long story short: I really appreciate it when you guys (and gals, I always just say guys androgynously), stop in and give me a high-five for doing. And I promise to keep the good times rolling on your end as well, as much as I can- but not if it doesn't move me!- I may only be able to summon a "that's gorgeous!" -but consider that since I took the time to kudos you, that it stopped me in my tracks enough to say it.
So now back to the other thing: I'm a photographer, (here), and I make photographs because I want to capture and show moments in time that have an emotive character- moments that will give a viewer (even if it's only me (consider your family pictures)) a sensation of experiencing the scene: to feel it. So that's why I share- because I want people to see the way I see it and to say "oh that's awesome!"
Here's to the best camera club in the world: todays internet's! Now time to go look at what you've done today-
POTD: Indecision
Indecision. Cape Cod off season beach lot. 1/125 sec at f/6.3 iso 100. upward shift to straighten lines with 24mm T-se.
I was intending to post yesterdays morning seascape stuff but it seems that I'm still working on it- not quite sure how to ultimately play those at this juncture, and I was pretty busy today and didn't get enough time to consider them. So that's funny tho because I'm just remembering that some people like to say that they wont take more then 3 minutes on an image otherwise it isn't a good image (slams the gavel for effect@!) But I think that well I know that I'll go back through the calalogs and find old pictures that I had initially discarded and really find a gem in the mix sometimes- and I might spend three minutes on it then and revive it to the top of my favorites or maybe I'll spend a few days weeks and months sorting that bugger- you don't have to do it all at once obviously, and we all see fresher sometimes with a break. So let's not get too worried about the rules and how much time we should give an image before it's done. So maybe tomorrow then, those seascapes aren't really all that, just had a great time doing it.
This from a shooting and visiting trip to Cape Cod to see my folks awhile back- it's really easy for me to see down there- because it's all new turf in a way. Sometimes when I'm really feeling hot in chasing pictures every other place I look has what seems to be a construction of interestings- as if a photographer designed it as a set that I was walking through. I'm sure it's happened to you too- you're looking at this wicked cool thing and you're thinking "hmmm, I bet a photographer set this here to shoot it"- Andy Goldsworthy's et al.s. Heheh- whatever- psyched to shoot that cool lookin thing and run it through my paces!