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Built into the bank of the Penetangore River, this is the only 'downtown' lighthouse on the Bruce Trail. Located in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
πͺπΈ Santa Clara Island - La Concha Bay
Donostia - San Sebastian - Euskadi - Pais Vasco - Basque Country
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This was about 5 minutes after the sun began to set over Harper's Ferry.What was once called the Winchester & Potomac Railroad is on tiny Virginius Island between Harper's Ferry (R) and the the Shenandoah River (L).
Virginius Island
Harper's Ferry, WV
November 3rd, 2015
63Β°F @ 5:12 pm
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@29mm
ISO 100
f/4.5
0.3 seconds
The weather here in Los Angeles now feels a lot like autumn back in DC...it just doesn't look like it. It's currently in the upper 40's and breezy thanks to the Santa Ana winds and while there's been some gloominess and rain, there are no colorful falling leaves anywhere.
I will get back to sunsets and reflections tomorrow but I wanted to post an autumn shot I took last November back in Maryland when the dog and I were out on a road trip to Pennsylvania. I remember this day pretty vividly actually, even a year later. I must have passed over this bridge in Rocky Ridge, Maryland dozens of times over the previous 6 months on my way out to explore with the camera and dog and for whatever reason, decided to stop this time and finally see what the view looked like into the water below. I had found what became my favorite waterfall only a few days earlier and now I was focused mostly on finding other sources of water for daytime long exposures with the neutral density filters. We were actually headed there after this but i pulled off the road and took a handful of low perspective shots while Scotch nervously looked on. He hates bridges and probably wasn't fond of me sitting in the middle of one with my camera and tripod.
My abilities and understanding of photography have improved greatly over the last year which is what I hoped would happen moving across the country. Part of it is the natural progression from learning through trial and error but I've also studied a lot of techniques and put in a ton of practice. What frustrates me most is when I take a shot I really love and have zero clue how to properly edit it. I try over and over and then give up, thinking I'll come back to it later when my editing skills improve more. Learning lightroom and photoshop from scratch is like learning a foreign language from scratch. Often, what looked great to me a year ago is now basically unacceptable and I often find myself rummaging through some of my old favorites and trying to edit them with a fresh set of eyes and new abilities.
At the time I shot this, I didn't have lightroom or photoshop, relying only on iphoto software and further, I edited them on my old tiny macbook with a really dark, cracked screen. The computer was so bad, I had to make small changes one at a time and then post them in a flickr folder to view on my iphone or ipad since they looked completely different on my laptop. I had previously posted a version of this a year ago but re-edited it from scratch using the methods and techniques I use now and am really glad I did. It's funny, I loved the original post of this but now looking back, I can't say I still feel the same way at all. It was way too dark, far too much contrast and missing a substantial amount of the details it had out of the camera. I kept meaning to redo it but kept getting sidetracked by newer and newer sets of images I'd take.
Tomorrow I will start posting some new images I took this past weekend on a very weird, rainy evening on Venice Beach but tonight I'm thinking about autumn, especially as it's now shifting to winter back in DC, where temperatures are in the low 30's at night. I always loved fall weather and some of the gloominess that came with it but really didn't appreciate it until I got into photography and then moved here. I do plan to mix in some more autumn shots from back home as well over the the next couple months, at least until I no longer miss it. There's almost nothing to complain about living in Los Angeles but I do wish Autumn was more like what I was used to and real trees were everywhere. To me, a palm tree is basically just a really strong, resilient weed. it grows in any conditions, doesn't need much water, and I think they're ugly :)
WHEN & WHERE
Monocacy River Bridge
Rocky Ridge, Maryland
November 1st, 2015
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@35mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/8th second
The previous post was from my favorite night of shooting in California (and perhaps anywhere) and this was is as well, only about 16 minutes later and facing the other direction.
I was thrilled after arriving when I realized the long sloping shore and low tide made for perfect reflections. I had never shot a reflection before and didn't have much to go on so I did a mix of both long and short exposures for the next few hours.
As I shot, the sky became more and more vibrant and the intensity of the sunset was unlike anything I've ever seen. The colors changed rapidly and the concentrated crimson sky in the previous post seemed to appear out of nowhere and faded not too long after. For about a half hour, people slowly gathered around the area I was shooting, watching the sky and taking videos and photos with their phones.
After the crimson began to fade away, the people left and I was all alone on the beach again, shooting until the last dot of color was gone from the sky. A bit of that fiery red is still visible in the far right and the colors were still very bold at this point, but it wasn't long after this that the only light between me and the pier was the the flashlight on my phone and the planes overhead.
I arrived here in no hurry and with very little expectations other than the hope for a nice sunset and a new place to shoot. I ended up being the last person to leave the beach and I returned a half dozen times over the next month hoping for a repeat sky that never came.
Venice Beach Pier
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@24mm
ISO 200
f/10
10 seconds
CPL
My apologies for the infrequent posts lately but I haven't been shooting a ton and my last trip out last saturday was a waste, with basically zero color, no reflections at all and the kind of light where every shot looks dull. In fact, lately it's been very tough to tell what the weather will do and while I've missed a few colorful sunsets over these last couple weeks, it's mostly been just those really gloomy days where the time for the sunset comes and goes with nothing changing. I've been skipping days where the conditions seem like they could go either way and mostly have made the right decision. I can see both East and West from the balcony (albeit a bit off from the sweet spots) and if I stay home, I can at least see if I was missing anything.
Anyway, I did take a bunch of shots a few weekends ago when I was alone on the beach at Venice in the rain, watching storm clouds out at sea in one direction and a golden reflective sunset a little more West. Shooting at a beach in the rain is a new experience for me and despite being fun, I had some big issues mixed in including not being as well prepared for blowing rain as I should have been. Also since I wasn't shooting long exposures, I turned the lens image stabilization on and it sort of malfunctioned. It was windy enough on the shore to make things fairly difficult for my "wind proof" umbrella and when the IS was turned on, there would be a slight hiccup with each manual adjustment to the focus. It seemed strange but I focused where I wanted and then shot away not realizing until I got home and viewed the photos on my mac that it ended up making half the shots I took shaky and completely unusable. They're like how a 3D photo or video looks without the glasses, if that makes sense. Fortunately, the lens seems to be functioning properly again.
I did get an interesting group of shots from the half that didn't suffer from the lens issue and weren't taken when the light got too dark and I experimented with ISO 800. I shot every photo from the right side of the lifeguard headquarters and the giant stacked boulders that divide the beach facing Santa Monica. The tide wasn't what I had gotten used to and there was no reflective areas where I normally shoot so I had to walk a bit to find a clean reflective surface within view of both the storm cells and the sunset. This was basically where West and North meet I guess and with the clouds rolling over the mountains, it was pretty amazing to watch. While this is facing Santa Monica, the pier itself is out of frame to the right. The conditions were better in this direction as most of the remaining rain clouds were behind me and the blowing rain became more of an annoying drizzle. I wish the mountains were a bit better detailed, but fog and the dense clouds covering the mountains made it tough and i was mostly focused on the lower middle of the frame. Even though it was a fun night, I found it really challenging to get the settings and focus in harmony. It was so dark and windy over there at times that I'm surprised any details in the background show. Most of the shots that focused more on the mountains than the reflection and foreground were among those that fell victim to the IS issue though some did turn out well enough. I think the next time I go, I will drive further down the road and get closer to these mountains and Santa Monica Pier. As long as I can arrive early enough to take my time, I will pick a new area of this beach to focus on :)
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
November 26th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 200
f/10
1/30th second
CPL
Ultramarina
Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Honduras 1891-1959.
Una nube blanca, una nube azul,
y en la nube un sueΓ±o y en el sueΓ±o tΓΊ.
Gaviotas al Norte, luceros al Sur;
sobre el mar el cielo, y en el cielo tΓΊ.
MΓΊsica de errantes cΓtaras de luz,
y luz en el alma, y en el alma tΓΊ.
Las ondas me traen cartas del PerΓΊ,
y en las cartas besos, y en los besos tΓΊ.
TΓΊ en la noche blanca, tΓΊ en la noche azul;
y en lo misterioso dulcemente tΓΊ.
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Donostia - San Sebastian - Euskadi - Pais Vasco - Basque Country
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Β© 2012 AbelC
All my photographic works are under copyrightΒ©. None of these photographs may be reproduced and/or used in any way without my permission.
I normally don't like to be too close to the ocean, at least not somewhere I could fall in. I'm always trying to challenge myself and sometimes this means dealing with high cliffs and the unknown of the dark ocean. It's unnerving to me to be somewhere it feels like I shouldn't. Reviewing a series of low angle long exposure shots the shoreline is very surreal. One shot might show dozens of large unyielding boulders and the next a smooth washed out view simply depending on the height and timing of incoming surf. It constantly reminds me I have no idea what's below the surface.
When I was a kid, my family vacationed to Martha's Vineyard until the summer leading into my senior year of High School. It was on that last trip that we were swimming off a boat we had rented for the day and the captain asked if we knew where we were. This wasn't an area we normally went to and seeing the cabanas on a shore, it did seem familiar for some reason. Turned out that's how I found out Jaws was filmed there. I then immediately thought of the movies posters of that giant shark directly below the unsuspecting swimmer. I got right back in that boat and thanked the captain for giving me what will become a lifelong irrational fear.
I know Jaws was fake. I know it was EXTREMELY fake. I also know anything could be right below my feet (jagged rocks or prehistoric mega sharks waiting to eat most of me) and I'd have no clue. This is why I have an irrational fear of dark water.
When I returned yesterday, a lifeguard warned me to be careful and stay back further because of some unpredictably large waves. Every few minutes, ALL the areas I set up on the previous week got pounded by giant breaking waves and had she not warned me, I'd definitely have been washed to sea. Maybe I should look into drone photography.
Point Mugu Beach
Malibu, California
June 6th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/9
32 seconds
ND1000
CPL
The installation of the Compostela Fractal Shell sculpture, a large-format work by the Spanish sculptor Ferreiro BadΓa, inspired by origami and developed in stainless steel, has been approved by NYC Parks to be exhibited for one year on the Queens waterfront. Until June 2024.
"Art in the Parks" is a prestigious program of the City of New York, which places sculptures in the cityβs urban space. (spainculture.us)
πΊπΈ La instalaciΓ³n de la escultura Compostela Fractal Shell, una obra de gran formato del escultor espaΓ±ol Ferreiro BadΓa, inspirada en el origami y desarrollada en acero inoxidable, ha sido aprobada por NYC Parks para ser expuesta durante un aΓ±o en el paseo marΓtimo de Queens, hasta junio de 2024.
βArt in the Parksβ es un prestigioso programa de la ciudad de Nueva York, que coloca esculturas en el espacio urbano de la ciudad. (spainculture.us)
Hunterβs Point South Park - Long Island City - New York City
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