I was in Sag Harbor and spied this small flock of about ten ducks. They were a species I hadn’t seen around here before. I sat on the Village Wharf and waited for them to get within camera range and took a few photos. I looked up the ducks and found out they were Long Tailed Ducks which come down from Northern Canada to winter over.
A Long Tailed Duck in Sag Harbor
A Long Tailed Duck heading my way
I woke today to thick fog. After walking the dog and fixing a flat tire I got out to try to capture the feeling of the day. The problem was that the few scenes with thick fog were looking into the sun and the fog was quickly burning off. I then remembered a spot on Mecox Bay that the sun would be to my back and there might still be fog left. The two images are the results the fog is burning off and there is a mood of the expecting day.
Lifting fog Water Mill Beach Club
Lifting fog Burnetts Cove, Water Mill
I was driving home from Montauk and came to the Napeague overlook to this stunning sunset. I stopped ran out and got a couple of photos.
Napeague Sunset
Sun and Moon Setting over Napeague Harbor
We planted sunflowers in the garden this year. In past years we planted them outside the garden fencing and the deer eat the plants. So this year I got a couple of photos of the flowers.
A bumble bee at work on sunflower
Sunflower
This Yellow Swallow Tail Butterfly has been hanging around our butterfly bushes this summer. I finally got the camera out and got a good photo of him. He is easy to recognize because of his broken tail.
Yellow Swallow Tail Butterfly on a butterfly bush.
I have been working on a concept for a new group of photos. The concept consist of photo shopping the image of a man covered in black latex into landscapes and other images these are the first two images. Not sure if I want to continue with this concept some feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
!st construction
2nd construction
An older photo that I thought might be good time to put up on the site. This was done with a long exposure. I didn’t have a tripod with me. I had laid the camera on a large rock, and held it as steady as I could. Taking several photos to insure I had a sharp image.
Water over rock
I was out shooting the local bays at the end of the day. I have been playing with a minimalistic cropping and subject. Taking an idea from painters who set the horizon low in the image.
Northwest Harbor iced over
Gardner’s Bay at Dusk
Gardner’s Bay at dusk
In the evenings I have been running down to Flying Point Beach and Mecox Bay to catch the evening light and play with my new Fujifilm X-E2 camera. I am enjoying shooting with the camera. The feel is like a traditional film rangefinder camera. The lens and sensor produce sharp images with good contrast and like Fuji films snappy rich colors. The camera has a panoramic feature that stitches several images together in the camera. In principle it is similar to the feature in I-phones. Shooting in manual exposure and focus provides more consistent and better images in the panoramic mode. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Evening light on Mecox Bay
Sunset on the Salt Pond at Flying Point Beach
The beach pavilion at Flying Point Beach closed until Memorial Day.
Mecox Bay evening light
The small salt pond on Mecox Bay at Flying Point Beach
For Christmas I got a new camera. I wanted smoothing small and easy to carry around but didn’t want to give up quality. After searching and looking at mirror less camera I decided to go with the Fujifilm X-E2. The E2 is small and has very good interchangeable lens. I got out and took a few photos today the camera is setup like old film camera and is easy to use it takes a little getting use to the menus for your settings but I quickly got the hang of it. Below are a few photos taken with the camera. Non of the photos have been sharpened and the panoramic is stitched together in the camera. A minimum of processing was done in Lightroom and one photo used a film replication setting to mimic Fuji Velvia film.
In camera panoramic stitching
Shadow on marsh while sun is setting.
Using in camera film style setting set for Velvia film accounting for the heightened color.