I’m a bit of embarrassed to say that that is my first weblog put up since June 2023. What can I say, I’ve had quite a lot of private stuff and different pursuits take precedence over writing weblog posts. I’ve at all times been a proponent of following your coronary heart and doing what you need at any given time in your stay, and after recovering from shoulder surgical procedure final summer season, I used to be far more into using my mountain bike than sitting at my desk writing weblog posts.
Nevertheless, I’ve missed it. I truly love writing, and whereas I’ve been doing different varieties of inventive writing in the course of the previous 12 months, I’ve missed this common inventive and psychological outlet that has glad an enormous a part of my stay in the course of the previous 15 plus years.
So, I’m again at it in the present day with some model new photographs. I just lately spent three weeks in upstate New York, which kicked off with a day journey to Niagra Falls. I visited this place as soon as earlier than after I was a child, and even then it was a spectacular sight. Think about the identical child 50 years later, however with a digicam.
Strolling round all day, on each the American and Canadian aspect, I shot lots of of photographs the Fujifilm X-T50 physique {that a} buddy loaned me, and three lenses, the 16m f/2.8, 35mm f2 and 70-300mm. I cherished utilizing the X-T50, (right here’s my first look evaluate of the X-T50), particularly the devoted “movie simulation dial,” and that trio of lenses was an ideal combo. I typically say that for any journey or images outing, so long as you could have extensive, center and lengthy, then you definately’re lined for absolutely anything. No want to hold greater than you want, proper?
Nevertheless, while you’re at a spot like Niagra Falls with tens of 1000’s of different individuals, and you’ve got only a few distinctive vantage factors, and there are already thousands and thousands of images of the falls, how do you give you one thing distinctive, or a minimum of intriguing to your individual eyes and artistic mind?
That is the place lengthy lenses actually shine. Apart from letting you eradicate all the opposite vacationers and buildings in your photographs, you possibly can zoom in and compose on particular parts of the falls. Certainly one of my favourite compositional strategies in images is the idea of abbreviation, the place you select bits and items of the principle topic that recommend the bigger scene. This method labored rather well right here, and I’m happy with the photographs I used to be capable of seize.
I additionally loved taking part in round with the completely different movie sims, which additionally provides an excessive amount of distinctive creativity to your photographs. The photograph above was shot with Basic Neg movie sim, whereas this one under was ACROS black and white. Total, it is a very monochromatic scene, however the completely different coloration palettes add a slight distinctive high quality to every photograph.
I’m fascinated by the geological side of the of the falls, and of the complete Finger Lakes space, the place we spent most of our trip. When the huge ice sheets that after lined this space retreated about 10,000 years in the past, the left behind a panorama crammed with mountains, steep gorges and quite a few giant lakes, together with the Nice Lakes themselves, which comprise 20% of the world’s recent water, all of which flows over Niagra Falls at a charge of over three thousand tons of water per second.
Residing right here in Alaska, now we have glaciers only a few miles away from our doorstep, and I discover them as typically as I can with my little Cessna bush aircraft. In fact, even with more and more hotter temps yearly, it’s nonetheless going to take a really very long time for all of our glaciers to soften, however once they have completed carving up the panorama up right here, what is going to it appear to be? Attention-grabbing issues to ponder…
One of the vital memorable side about today was capturing photographs of different individuals having fun with their go to to the falls. After watching one couple awkwardly attempting to take a selfie, I provided my providers, which started a 15 minute session of me capturing portraits of individuals and {couples} with their telephones, some at my very own providing, and some others who watched type the aspect earlier than garnering up the braveness to ask me for his or her flip. It was enjoyable to share my abilities on this means, realizing that theses strangers will go residence with an excellent photograph of themselves in entrance of this wonderful pure marvel.
Anyway, I hope you get pleasure from these photographs. Thanks for studying and on your understanding throughout my lengthy absence from the weblog. I promise I received’t let that a lot time go once more earlier than my subsequent put up.
