Path to the National Seashore, Griffins Island, Wellfleet

When I started shooting on the Cape in the spring, this is one of the first locations I found. I returned here at the end of every trip (dozens-but who's counting) and could never get the proper light. I'm glad I stuck with it. I was lucky once again to have a decent surf so the salt air rising from the beach diffused the light enough to cut the contrast back.

New work from Cape Cod

Chatham Dory

I think this is the final image I shot last fall. The sky that day was bright and cloudless and I couldn't find any subject matter at all (hard light is normally not my ally). In the car for two hours and not shooting any film is a real let down, but then driving around Chatham trying to find something to shoot, I turned off of the main road to see if I could find a way to the water. Just before sunset I fell upon this fisherman's work boat perched in the sand at Ryder Cove. It seemed as though its owner had lined it up with the sun for me and then walked away. I had about 20 minutes of light so I was able to casually shoot without being pressed for time like I am when the sky is in the scene. I thought the seaweed stuck in the bow looked like a beard.

Final Light, Truro

I have been shooting in Wellfleet and Truro ( and a bit in Chatham and Orleans) almost every weekend and some weekday evenings since August. It took me quite a while to re-set my "vision" to shoot on Cape Cod because it has a scale of landscape that is much different from what I am accustomed to. I am also thrown off by my own lack of sense of compass direction there. I try and get down to the outer Cape at around noon and once I make the bend in the hook and start heading north towards P-Town and get to either the bay side of the Cape or the ocean side, I have to stop and think where the compass points are so I can calculate the sun's trajectory. I get turned around easily. But now I think I finally have a sense of scale and that will show up in later images that reveal broad landscapes as opposed to the detail image I have posted here.

Maine Burr Reed #2

My second in a new series of black and white. I have another two or three images I am working on. I find that b&w is much more exacting to produce. I have been working on this project since August and it is only comprised of four images. My last post from August shows how I set up to make this image.

Maine Burr Reed

Image captured from the precarious ladder perch seen in my last post. I did a series of these. This is my favorite so far.

More Maine location work

photo by Debbie Granger

Shooting pond florae in Maine. A new friend took a picture of me lost in concentration on the edge of disaster. Debbie is from California and is traveling the USA in a third wheel rig. You can go to her blog and see where she has been traveling. It's quite interesting: http://www.MyTripJournal.com/ForeverHome

Jennifer Aniston?

Does this mean I'm one degree of separation from Jennifer Aniston? From last year's movie "He's just not that into you", my photograph "North River at Blueberry Island" (which has my fathers canoe in it), is seen as set dressing in the background. I still can't believe this was spotted by someone. I had no idea they used it. This is the same canoe from my earlier postings that I paddle around with tons of equipment.