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I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that that is my first weblog submit since June 2023. What can I say, I’ve had loads of private stuff and different pursuits take precedence over writing weblog posts. I’ve all the time been a proponent of following your coronary heart and doing what you need at any given time in your reside, and after recovering from shoulder surgical procedure final summer time, I used to be far more into driving my mountain bike than sitting at my desk writing weblog posts.
Nevertheless, I’ve missed it. I really love writing, and whereas I’ve been doing different varieties of inventive writing through the previous yr, I’ve missed this common inventive and psychological outlet that has happy an enormous a part of my reside through the previous 15 plus years.
So, I’m again at it at present with some model new pictures. I 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 once 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 facet, I shot a whole lot of pictures the Fujifilm X-T50 physique {that a} good friend 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 overview of the X-T50), particularly the devoted “movie simulation dial,” and that trio of lenses was an ideal combo. I usually say that for any journey or images outing, so long as you might have vast, center and lengthy, then you definately’re coated for absolutely anything. No want to hold greater than you want, proper?
Nevertheless, once 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 tens of millions of images of the falls, how do you give you one thing distinctive, or at the least intriguing to your personal eyes and inventive mind?
That is the place lengthy lenses actually shine. Other than letting you remove all the opposite vacationers and buildings in your pictures, you possibly can zoom in and compose on particular components of the falls. One in all 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 pictures I used to be in a position to seize.
I additionally loved enjoying round with the completely different movie sims, which additionally provides an excessive amount of distinctive creativity to your photographs. The picture above was shot with Traditional Neg movie sim, whereas this one beneath was ACROS black and white. General, it is a very monochromatic scene, however the completely different shade palettes add a slight distinctive high quality to every picture.
I’m fascinated by the geological side of the of the falls, and of all the Finger Lakes space, the place we spent most of our trip. When the large ice sheets that after coated this space retreated about 10,000 years in the past, the left behind a panorama stuffed with mountains, steep gorges and quite a few massive lakes, together with the Nice Lakes themselves, which comprise 20% of the world’s contemporary water, all of which flows over Niagra Falls at a price of over three thousand tons of water per second.
Residing right here in Alaska, we now have glaciers just some miles away from our doorstep, and I discover them as usually as I can with my little Cessna bush aircraft. After all, 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? Fascinating issues to ponder…
One of the memorable side about today was capturing pictures of different individuals having fun with their go to to the falls. After watching one couple awkwardly making an attempt 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 facet earlier than garnering up the braveness to ask me for his or her flip. It was enjoyable to share my abilities on this approach, figuring out that theses strangers will go house with an incredible picture of themselves in entrance of this wonderful pure marvel.
Anyway, I hope you get pleasure from these pictures. Thanks for studying and to your understanding throughout my lengthy absence from the weblog. I promise I gained’t let that a lot time move once more earlier than my subsequent submit.
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