This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Tourism.
Despite living in a tourist destination and on a route for tourists heading to northern Ontario or western Canada I was drawing a blank on this challenge. Then I remembered these two photos of the range light at the mouth of the Saugeen River on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario.
Around 12 years ago I was approached by a local tourism organisation about using this photo in one of their guides. As this shot was already being used as a postcard they decided not to use it and asked if I had anything similar.
A month or so earlier I had been down on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton testing my new Olympus E-410 and the plastic kit lenses it came with. This is the fourth shot taken with the camera and is the one used in the guide.
That top photo is spectacular. Such incredible light.
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Thanks Graham. There’s such a big change in colour between the waves in sunlight and the ones in the shade in the first shot.
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Both shots are gorgeous, especially the clouds in the first one! I would buy that postcard in an instant. Great choice for this week’s theme 😊 Thank you!
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Thank you. It was another photographer who pointed out the clouds and light in the first one. I had posted a small copy on my website when someone I studied photography with all those years ago said about the light on the waves and clouds.
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That second image says Calm!
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Yes, now you say that I’m wondering if the first shot was after an overnight storm.
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Could be!
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Both are beautiful and about as dissimilar as any two shots of the same place could be.
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I’d never compared them like that. I couldn’t take another version because since the last shot was taken the water level in Lake Huron has risen a lot and that section of shoreline is now under water.
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