Travel Tuesday is continuing my look back at some of the photos from the 52 week photo project I did in 2018.
This week I’m traveling to a section of the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise to photograph waves forming icicles.
A week earlier Colpoy’s Bay was frozen but after some thawing the wind had pushed the ice out of the bay. A week after this photo was taken the wind had pushed the ice back into the bay and it was frozen again.
The tripod was frozen to the shoreline when I packed it away.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Motion prompt.
I quickly had a rather long “shortlist” of around a dozen images but wanted to go with four. That four changed twice before I decided enough was enough and stopped swapping photos.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Support.
As is frequently the case with me I took a sideways look at the prompt. Because the first thing that came to mind on reading the prompt was camera tripods.
I am possibly something of a rarity these days in that I still frequently use a tripod or other form of camera support.
Using my home made ground pod allows me to support a telephoto lens while getting down to eye level with birds and mammals.
Portrait of an Eastern Chipmunk taken using the ground pod.
A tripod set up on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise photographing waves forming icicles. Two of the tripod legs were frozen to the pebbles by the time I packed up the equipment.
Motion blurred wave forming icicles on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge prompt You Pick It!
I thought about some of my experiments since being restricted to what I could do due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Some of the experiments involved using the live composite and the live time settings of my Olympus camera to show motion blur of clouds at dawn and dusk.
As I have been experimenting with motion blur for years I decided to add a couple of earlier images to this post.
A 346 second exposure of clouds moving across Colpoy’s Bay, Ontario at dawn in the summer. Taken using a strong neutral density filter on the lens and using the live time feature of my Olympus camera.
A wave breaking over a rock on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario 18 years ago. Isolated using the long telephoto I use for birds and mammals.
A wave breaking on the Georgian Bay, Ontario shoreline at sunrise 35 years ago. The camera was set up on a tripod and the shutter tripped when a suitable looking wave was about to break on the stones.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Splash of Colour prompt.
I initially went with a splash of colour before going with splashes in colour.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Water.
Having been living and photographing around water for decades I decided to go with a small selection of my favourites.
Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland.
American Avocets feeding on a slough near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
A wave and ripples on Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada at dawn.
This is my contribution to Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #28 Photo Challenge.
Simply a wave and ripples on the Lake Huron shoreline at dawn photographed at the Long Dock in Southampton, Ontario.
