Photography is like a drug without the needle
(Lincoln Beach, Oregon) - Yes, I sometimes get carried away - and this one of those instances. Due to horrendous planning (I'll conveniently blame on a seal at Cape Kiwanda for this), we ended up far short of our intended dusk location. And the sunset had started to look really interesting.
So we panicked and ended up at this cute little beach south of Lincoln Beach. It looked to have potential from the cliffs before climbing down, but we were disappointed was we descended as the sun was blocked by a steep rock formation that jutted out into the ocean. There were a couple solutions. One - and this looked like the wet solution - was to wander off along the beach in the search of some rocks. This looked risky as we were rapidly running out of light.
So I strapped the tripod to my camera bad and climbed the steep rock formation to get at the sunlight. It was easy, but stupid. Why?
1. It is easier to climb up than down.
2. It is easier to climb with plenty of light at sunset than 30 minutes later at dusk.
3. It is easier to climb up with a tripod on your back than down with a tripod on your back (and have it bang into everything).
4. It is easier to climb up with dry shoes than down with wet shoes.
This was one of the shots from up on the rocks. Nice, but risky. On a scale of 1-10, the climb up was a 2 and the climb down maybe a 7.
I took some more shots on the other side of the rocks - and did stupid stuff there too, but I'll write about that some other day.
...basically, it is not as fun to take great pictures if you are not around to see them afterwards. My dad said that at Delicate Arch after seeing me change lenses and balance myself and a tripod on a ledge so as to just get the snow peaked La Sal mountains through the arch.
Ironically, did I learn? Not at all. This was the start of splash photography for us...
Photography is like a drug without the needle
(Lincoln Beach, Oregon) - Yes, I sometimes get carried away - and this one of those instances. Due to horrendous planning (I'll conveniently blame on a seal at Cape Kiwanda for this), we ended up far short of our intended dusk location. And the sunset had started to look really interesting.
So we panicked and ended up at this cute little beach south of Lincoln Beach. It looked to have potential from the cliffs before climbing down, but we were disappointed was we descended as the sun was blocked by a steep rock formation that jutted out into the ocean. There were a couple solutions. One - and this looked like the wet solution - was to wander off along the beach in the search of some rocks. This looked risky as we were rapidly running out of light.
So I strapped the tripod to my camera bad and climbed the steep rock formation to get at the sunlight. It was easy, but stupid. Why?
1. It is easier to climb up than down.
2. It is easier to climb with plenty of light at sunset than 30 minutes later at dusk.
3. It is easier to climb up with a tripod on your back than down with a tripod on your back (and have it bang into everything).
4. It is easier to climb up with dry shoes than down with wet shoes.
This was one of the shots from up on the rocks. Nice, but risky. On a scale of 1-10, the climb up was a 2 and the climb down maybe a 7.
I took some more shots on the other side of the rocks - and did stupid stuff there too, but I'll write about that some other day.
...basically, it is not as fun to take great pictures if you are not around to see them afterwards. My dad said that at Delicate Arch after seeing me change lenses and balance myself and a tripod on a ledge so as to just get the snow peaked La Sal mountains through the arch.
Ironically, did I learn? Not at all. This was the start of splash photography for us...