The day after Hurricaine Danny blew through we went down to Matunuck Beach, me to shoot, Mike to surf. It was too misty to do much shooting of him and Jas (and the 200 or so other surfers out there) so I squeezed myself up against a wall and shot the waves as they washed in and out. A quite hazardous job since the current was fierce and I was wearing jeans, boots and was carrying the 5DMII with the 16-35 and had a pack on with the other camera and my 100-400 and various sundries. It would have been sink long before swim. The cameras got a little spray on them and I got soaked up to my waist but was rewarded with some interesting images.
Mike having some fun
Storm Surge:
Storm Surge2 B&W:
Tags: B&W, Canon 16-35L f/2.8, Canon 5DMII, Hurricaine, Matunuck Beach, Mike, Monochrome, Ocean, RI, surfing
By far one of the most visited sites in Arches has to be Balanced Rock. There is always a traffic jam at the pullout from early morning to late at night, it’s worse at sunset when the sun just makes it glow. It seems so improbable that it could stay up there supported by such a *relatively* thin piece of rock. And then there are the paired pillars behind it. But lets not go there… It wasn’t very close to sunset when we drove past on our second day there but with that dead piece of juniper or pinyon tree lying there by the side of the road the image just worked for me it was just too bad that after all the laying in the sand and squirming about to compose it slightly off angle it just wasn’t what I was hoping for. Then I had the bright idea to try converting it to b&w. I think it works now.
Balanced Rock-B&W
Tags: B&W, Balanced Rock
