The calm face of the water asked me for a kiss.
Nestled along the northeastern coast of Florida, Talbot Island State Park harbors a hauntingly beautiful boneyard beach. Visitors would find the famed stretch of shoreline— a stark and mesmerizing landscape strewn with the arboreal remains that the relentless Atlantic has sculpted over the years to create a ghostly forest of fallen oak and cedar trees. These weathered sentinels, once proud giants of the maritime forest, now lie scattered across the beach like the discarded bones of mythical creatures.
Empty Chairs in St Mark Square in Venice
Empty Chairs in St Mark Square: I was intrigued by vacant spaces – spaces that I certainly had not seen without hordes of people. The strongest presence in these images was what was absent from them.
TRIPTYCH and more at the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
Bridge of Sighs in Venice evokes feelings of anguish and hopes of escape. I thought of these emotions in a tercet and communicated my interpretation via a triptych. This blog post discusses how I sketched my way to that.
St Augustine Morning
St Augustine Florida glowed in morning light. I started taking images of the Bridge of Lions before sunrise – during the blue hour – and then continued once the sun rose above the horizon.
Vilano Beach Long Exposures
Testing Lee SW150 Filter system on a 17mm Tilt Shift lens on Vilano Beach. I used a 10-Stop ND “Big-Stopper” to make long exposures.
The Rialto Bridge at Dawn.
In 1588-1591, Venetian architect Antonio da Ponte combined the form and function, the grace and dignity, with strength and permanence to rebuild the beautiful Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal.
The equation for Keeper rate: Time spent at a location is directly proportional to the quality of images.
The not so secret equation for the keeper images: The keeper rate is directly proportional to the time spent at the photographic location, or with the subject.
Lighthouse Park on a cloudy morning
Lighthouse Park in St Augustine has a fishing pier, picnic area, boat ramp, kayak and canoe launch, and public parking. Sea birds such as Great Egrets are commonly seen here. There is a shaded area for picnic. I used 24 mm Tilt Shift, 55 mm Zeiss Otus, and Canon 400 mm 2.8 II lens with a 1.4x teleconverter on a Canon EOS R5. I used a Sekonic spot meter for the exposure measurement.
Ancient Dunes Trail
Ancient Dunes Trail is a moderately easy loop trail and provides an excellent view of fine tree specimens.
LX Factory Lisbon, Portugal
LX Factory in Lisbon Portugal. A weaving factory was established and blossomed because of industrialization; it fell to a factory fire in 1814; rose-again but with a new “English-style” fire-proof design in 1819; fell yet again as it went out of business in 1917; and stayed abandoned and forgotten, yet it rose again like phoenix from ashes into its current incarnation: the LX Factory in 2008/2012.
