Different Day – these pilings might turn into a series. Light changes, water changes, and the gulls are still hanging out.
North Light, Snow
North Light, Piling and the Breakwater shot this morning in a flurry.
Blue Hour Bridge
A quick stitch, morning blue hour at the bike bridge. A calamity led up to the shots that made this image – but I made the best of the situation and still spent time outside…
Three, Abstract
These pilings remind me of Suprematist markings on the canvas of the sky and water.
Three, Birds, Square
Lonely
Solo seagull, piling, in a flurry of snow.
3 + 2
Blue
Blue hour shot of the Portrait Piling last night. Stopped on the way home from kid sleep over drop off and spent a bit of time watching the sky change well past sunset. Stacked 3 long exposures and merged them in Lightroom.
Shift
Turning back to walk to the car after a disappointing session fumbling with filters, I was treated to the amazing colors in the sky over Lake Champlain.
Not Ideal
I’ve been working hard to stay motivated when things aren’t ‘ideal’ – everything from getting out to photograph, to getting out on the bike or for a hike. Waiting for the ideal has left me longing and sitting – so the mental game has become how to overcome the paralysis of thinking there is an ideal, perfect world and life out there that I need to just wait for… which is folly.
I went out to try some long exposure photography yesterday, and explored a place called Delta Park, just north of Burlington. I have fat biked out there in late winter – and it can be beautiful, cold, and windy. Yesterday the wind was moderate, the water has been high with all the warm temperatures and snow melt / rain, and the ground soft and muddy. I initially saw some great ice that had a good view of the setting sun – but opted to trek off around to the river side in hopes of having some good framing with trees / ice / water. That didn’t really pan out – the landscape and direction to the sun didn’t align and cooperate.
Once I trekked around I just setup and made due, and started making images. I have been playing / learning / failing / fumbling with a filter holder on my little Canon mirrorless M6. I have a Formatt-Hitech system – mounted the holder, the circular polarizer, and then played with a 10 stop ND and a 2 stop graduated filter. I tossed most of the those images… learned a lot, and am getting better at setup and take down of the system – but needed to stack 2 filters for a longer shutter speed than 30 seconds in order to get some cloud blurring – and the landscape framing didn’t cooperate – there was nothing static of interest in my immediate field of view that could anchor the movement of the water / clouds.
I did enjoy a lovely walk, bonus for tripping over rocks and roots and slipping on rocks, and I managed to make a few images, once I let go of the ‘ideal’. Just by turning to walk back to the car, my perspective changed and I was treated to the lovely sky…