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
There isn’t much marsh on the bay but there is a strip of grass behind a few mansions. Today the light was right to get a image.
Marsh grass Shinnecock Bay
Wave photos seem to be the new think around the local galleries. Most of the photos are straight forward rolling waves with good surfing breaks. I like a little more drama so I am posting these. Both were taken on a cold day with a strong Northwest wind which creates the drama.
Wave Shinnecock Inlet
Moon Rise on Ocean
Got out last night to take a few photos as the sun was setting on Flying Point Beach in Water Mill.
Evening clouds and reflections at sunset
Sunset on Flying Point
Night Picnic on the Beach
Flying Point at Dusk
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.
A few days ago I had some time to walk around the dunes at Flying Point Beach in Water Mill. I had Sam my Duck Tolling Retriever with me. A close eye on the dog was needed for fear he would get into trouble or swim in the frigid waters. At one time he got himself trapped in a maze of fencing designed to hold sand on the dunes. I did manage to get a few photos, and had some fun converting them to black and white. Playing with the red filter adjustment in Silver Efex 2 made ordinary photos more dramatic. Below are a few photos from the day’s walk, hope you enjoy them.
Flying Point Beach
Flying Point Beach
Flying Point Beach
After a morning off shoveling snow I got a chance to take a few photos. After editing there were two photos worth sharing. The first is of pine trees on the farm behind my house the other is of the lighthouse at Montauk. I have never gotten good photo of the lighthouse with snow. The reason being by the time I get there the snow has mostly melted away and yesterday was no exception. However I was still able to get something worth while.
For Christmas I posted a photo of the Water Mill windmill, which is a classic English style windmill. While we go through a deep freeze in most of the country, and some friends are missing the weather of golf season, I thought I would post the windmill from the National Golf Links of America. The windmill is a Dutch style windmill and an icon of one of the oldest golf course in America. There are only two Dutch style windmills on Long Island that I am aware of the other is on the campus of Stonybrook Southampton College.
From the fairway on the second hole.
The 16th green which is a blind hole the reason for two flags on the green