In The Landscape Again
This blog post is coming to you on the summer solstice... the beginning of summer and the longest day of the year. Unfortunately this also means the days will be getting shorter from now on! :(
Equally momentous is the fact that I was out in the landscape with my camera for the first time in a very long time. I spent a couple days on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay near the Blackwater area. I have been here several times and it is one of my favorite places to visit... flat, wide open, marshy areas with lots of wildlife... and hardly any people.
Those grand, wide open, flat marshy scenes require great light and interesting skies in order to make worthwhile images. And if you live in the northeast, you know we have had terrible hazy white skies almost all spring because of the wildfires in Canada. Hazy white skies are about the worst you can have if you are trying to make good photographs.
Luckily, the smoke does something else. It partially obscures the sun and gives a warm, orange glow to the land at sunrise. So, with a wake-up call at 4:45am, I went to my favorite place on Maple Dam Road and started looking. After some time, I found the right combination of color, sky, water, and trees. While the Jeep was parked on one half of the road, I set up the camera and tripod on the other half and created this image that I really like. It conveys how quiet the morning felt as the sun slowly rose through the smoke filled skies.
It felt good to be out there again. I have a couple more trips planned and some other nice images from Blackwater. So... there just might be some regular monthly blog posts coming again!