Do you ever go on a photo shoot and make an image feeling quite confident that you got a great shot ... and then when you see it on your computer later it just didn't turn out the way you envisioned it? That happens to me all the time and I've discovered a secret: sometimes images just need to rest awhile. Like this image I made at North Lake on Prince Edward Island last … [Read more...] about Sometimes an image needs a rest
Prince Edward Island
A Boat for Dad – PEI
Today is the first in a series of posts I call "A Boat for Dad". My Dad was a commercial fisherman on the pacific coast for over 65 years. He had many boats in his career including trollers, seiners, and crab boats. Since I have been travelling on the east coast, Dad keeps asking me to find him a boat. Of course, it has to be a free boat which I can tow home for him :) For … [Read more...] about A Boat for Dad – PEI
Basin Head, Prince Edward Island
I made this image at another one of the fabulous beaches on Prince Edward Island, this one a white sand beach. It was a gorgeous sunset with a full moon and I really liked how the red of the lifeguard's chair looked against the pink sky. I used my Singh-Ray 2 stop hard graduated neutral density filter to even out the exposure due to the brightness of the sky, and stacked … [Read more...] about Basin Head, Prince Edward Island
Average House on PEI
As I drove around Prince Edward Island photographing all the beautiful beaches, fishing villages and lighthouses, it occurred to me that I hadn't captured what I was seeing most: small homes on vast tracts of land with incredible views. Homes here all seem to have huge amounts of property around them. Many have fields of potatoes, but if they don't the certainly have huge … [Read more...] about Average House on PEI
Cape Bear, Prince Edward Island
Nothing says "PEI" more than rugged sandstone cliffs and red sand beaches. They have lighthouses too, but honestly they are tiny compared to those you find on the west coast. This one is located at Cape Bear on the south eastern coast of PEI where it has aided mariners since 1881 (the red sand beach is on the other side of the lighthouse). There was once a Marconi Wireless … [Read more...] about Cape Bear, Prince Edward Island