A moment of blue hour serenity from the recent workshop that I attended. Showcasing the A.M. Foster Covered Bridge, an intriguing structure built in 1998.
As I’ve worked through a number of the images captured during the awesome workshop from just over a week ago, there is still a bit more to share. Looking at this image, I find it captures a moment of serenity during what is also an intense learning experience.
Here’s a look at this blue hour capture…
Bridge and Blue
The A.M. Foster Covered Bridge is a bit of an anomaly, as it doesn’t connect any roads across a river. Rather, the owner just loved covered bridges, so he had one designed and built in 1998. Nevertheless, it is a great photography subject and appears in many images.
The Night Photography workshop with Loren Fisher provided valuable insights and enjoyable learning experiences. Here’s another image from that week.
As I mentioned in earlier posts, the Night Photography workshop with Loren Fisher was a lot of fun and definitely gave me some additional thoughts for future photography opportunities. Loren is great at adapting to the conditions that nature gives us, and keeping the learning enjoyable and appropriate to the level of all in the workshop.
Here’s another one of the night images…
Quiet Barn
This barn sits on the President Calvin Coolidge Historic site in Plymouth, Vermont. This was at the tail end of our shooting during blue hour with Loren lighting up the barn with a flashlight to bring it out of silhouette mode. I kept this image a bit darker, as it gives a sense of mood and the weathered texture that is presented by the structure.
There will certainly be more opportunities in the future to do some of this exploration myself.
Our spectrum focuses on the blue hour, the time before sunrise or after sunset when the sky appears blue due to sunlight scattering.
After a bit of a hiatus, we’ll take a slight detour from the infrared part of the light spectrum and visit the blue hour. Using this part of the time before sunrise or after sunset, during which the sun’s longer, reddish wavelengths are scattered to provide a blue tint to our sky. During the workshop, Loren Fisher guided us to great locations and did all the hard work of suggesting our camera settings and painting the location with just the right amount of light.
Here’s one of my captures…
Queechee Dam
Even though the shot was all about the blue hour, I like the look of this image in black and white. It lends the location a sense of mystery.
To reduce some of the mystery, here’s the color version…
Welcome to week 148 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge.
Thanks to everyone for the great contributions on last week’s theme; you managed to run with Crawl without any problem! For this week, I thought it might be fun to go with a theme that allows you to go to any level that you like: Surface! It’s up to your creative minds to document the surface, or see what surfaces or go below the surface to uncover what lies beneath. Of course, your surfaces can be of any topology that you choose!
Have some fun with this one and don’t hesitate to poke the surface and see what you stir up! I’m looking forward to your creative endeavors!
Here’s a surface with a slight ripple…
Liquid Power
This image came from a leisurely exploratory drive along the Connecticut river; as I drove North into Vermont, I thought it would be a good change of pace to drive South through New Hampshire. That’s where I found this hydro power plant in Bellows Falls, VT.
The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:
Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week (note: pingbacks may not appear immediately, as my site is set up to require approval for linking to it; helps against previous bad experiences with spamming)
Have fun creating something new (or sharing something old)!!
Enjoy your week and I can’t wait to see what floats to the surface in your creative endeavors!
