The Edge of East
A minute or so before sunrise atop the grassy cliffs of Cape Spear, Newfoundland.
While work and family were the focus of this past summer and left little time for photography for a good while, I did manage to get out a couple of times while in different locations with my wife and various extended family members. One of these quick trips with family was to the St. John's area and a few other places in Newfoundland.
Newfoundland's cliff-lined coasts and other natural beauties were absolutely magnificent--and I'd love to go back tomorrow to see more--but just as enthralling was the unparalleled friendliness of the people and the vibrant music and culture. I didn't go out to shoot any sunsets because the summer's main music festival was in town that week, and we were eating in open air cafes, sampling the local Quidi Vidi brews, and listening to great Celtic-inspired live music every evening.
Just a short drive from St. John's is this beautiful rocky headland known as Cape Spear, which is somewhat well known for being the easternmost point in North America (so long as you don't count Greenland as a part of North America), and is thus a place at which many visitors congregate each morning to gaze out into the vast ocean and be among the first on our continent to see the sun begin its daily arc across the sky.
We had gotten up the day before and headed out, only to find that the Cape here was completely socked in with thick, thick fog. But here it was this morning, absolutely beautiful weather and almost completely clear. Yet I found myself thinking it would be cool if somehow the view could include a few wisps of fog blowing through the scene or mist rising off the cold north Atlantic waters. So as I tried out some different shots awaiting the imminent sunrise, I noticed some slight "fog" in the lower portions of a couple of images. A brief investigation revealed a very thin, and somewhat surprisingly patchy film of condensation forming on the lower portions of the soft grad I was using to hold back the brightness of the sky just a bit.
I almost dried the filter reflexively before I realized that the faint effect seemed kind of cool in this instance, so I held off and took a few more longer exposure shots with this "fog" effect from the condensation before finally wiping the filter clean. Not an approach I would use very often, but this image with this fog effect turned out to be one of my personal favorites from that morning, probably just because it was a little different.
Thanks for visiting!
The Edge of East
A minute or so before sunrise atop the grassy cliffs of Cape Spear, Newfoundland.
While work and family were the focus of this past summer and left little time for photography for a good while, I did manage to get out a couple of times while in different locations with my wife and various extended family members. One of these quick trips with family was to the St. John's area and a few other places in Newfoundland.
Newfoundland's cliff-lined coasts and other natural beauties were absolutely magnificent--and I'd love to go back tomorrow to see more--but just as enthralling was the unparalleled friendliness of the people and the vibrant music and culture. I didn't go out to shoot any sunsets because the summer's main music festival was in town that week, and we were eating in open air cafes, sampling the local Quidi Vidi brews, and listening to great Celtic-inspired live music every evening.
Just a short drive from St. John's is this beautiful rocky headland known as Cape Spear, which is somewhat well known for being the easternmost point in North America (so long as you don't count Greenland as a part of North America), and is thus a place at which many visitors congregate each morning to gaze out into the vast ocean and be among the first on our continent to see the sun begin its daily arc across the sky.
We had gotten up the day before and headed out, only to find that the Cape here was completely socked in with thick, thick fog. But here it was this morning, absolutely beautiful weather and almost completely clear. Yet I found myself thinking it would be cool if somehow the view could include a few wisps of fog blowing through the scene or mist rising off the cold north Atlantic waters. So as I tried out some different shots awaiting the imminent sunrise, I noticed some slight "fog" in the lower portions of a couple of images. A brief investigation revealed a very thin, and somewhat surprisingly patchy film of condensation forming on the lower portions of the soft grad I was using to hold back the brightness of the sky just a bit.
I almost dried the filter reflexively before I realized that the faint effect seemed kind of cool in this instance, so I held off and took a few more longer exposure shots with this "fog" effect from the condensation before finally wiping the filter clean. Not an approach I would use very often, but this image with this fog effect turned out to be one of my personal favorites from that morning, probably just because it was a little different.
Thanks for visiting!