After Sunset

Seagulls wading the surf shortly after sunset at Robert Moses Beach

The beauty about photography is that you never know what to expect and rule #1 is to always keep an open mind. I have come to learn that if I have any type of preconceived notion of what sort of picture I want to capture, I more often than not fail miserably. This might be especially true for landscape photography, where you can never 100% predict the weather, the clouds, the wind and the lighting conditions resulting from all of the above. I came to shoot what looked like a promising sunset, yet ended up being bland and boring and disappearing half way through behind a thick layer of haze. Yet the light reflected beautifully in the sand once the sun had set and those gulls just made for perfect models.

Silver Lining

A sliver of light and color at the end of a drab and stormy early December day

I know it's been a while since I've been posting one of those ocean shots, but once in a while I just have to sprinkle one in...Here, the storm clouds gave way to a small band of orange at the end of the day. I just loved the speck of otherworldly red in the sky, but oh boy was it cold! I specifically drove down with tripod and all my gear to take photographs, and this is the only (& handheld) picture I took before running back to my car shivering like crazy!

Unhinged

Car doors awaiting conversion into art

Wow - it's been some time since I last posted here. I went to California for a while, but that's a poor excuse. I've also dragged a broken toe around for almost three weeks, which didn't help my creativity much. I'll try to post more often but will mix in a few older shots since in this wintry weather shooting with a broken toe isn't much fun.

The above photo was taken in the California desert, at what is known as "Salvation Mountain", where 76-year old Leonard Knight turns many different things into art. If you'd like to find out more about it check my website and click on a gallery named "Salton Sea 2008". Quite an interesting place!