The sun is shining once more and temperatures are on the rise, which makes me eager to get outdoors for some photography! In June, I will be attending a night sky photography workshop in Vermont, which makes me look back a couple of years. In 2023, I was in the same area, shortly after a significant amount of flooding, which had a disastrous impact on everyone. When I arrived, the town of Woodstock had just reopened, but tap water was not yet safe to drink, which was just a minor inconvenience given the amount of destruction.
All this water did have one positive…
In the middle of July, I don’t expect to see this much water coming down a stream. It did make for some great photo opportunities allowing for some technical exploration using different filters.
For this particular shot I used a setup with a Cokin’s NX filter system; this allows for stacking of multiple filters, so both ND and graduated ND filters can be used. To get this ribbon effect, I stepped down to a 4 second shutter speed.
Let’s hope for some more great shots in Vermont this time around, but without the flooding, as nobody wants to experience that again.
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