Waiting for Summer | 12:39AM May 25, 2007
We all have that lens that sits in our camera bag. You know, the one you keep pulling out whenever you clean your bag, and say, “Hmm, should I keep this one? Sure, what the hell.” Well, for me it’s my LensBaby. Oh, yes the LensBaby! That wonderful little lens that droops off the front of your camera like a ridiculous gag gift you got for your 13th birthday.
Over the years, I’ve devised a method for solving the problem of the unused lens. Every so often I leave my camera bag at home and take only one camera and one lens on my shoot. Yesterday, in keeping with tradition, my LensBaby and I wandered up and down the lakeshore for about two hours. I took a few simple landscape shots, as well as a couple of images of particular trees and what not. Nothing was really striking me. I stopped for a minute to sit, and ponder. Oh, how I love to ponder. At any rate, I started to ponder about what on the shoreline appealed to me visually. Seeing as it was almost Memorial Day weekend, and thousands of annual summer residents were about to flood the state, I was struck by all the docks that were still pushed up on the shore.
I decided that those behemoths of lumber and steel, the very symbol of summertime recreation, would be my subject. My goal was to try to capture the feeling of that last weekend before summer, the metaphorical calm before the storm.
I used Lightroom for the majority of the edits and PS for some final processing. I beseech you to leave your thoughts - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Over the years, I’ve devised a method for solving the problem of the unused lens. Every so often I leave my camera bag at home and take only one camera and one lens on my shoot. Yesterday, in keeping with tradition, my LensBaby and I wandered up and down the lakeshore for about two hours. I took a few simple landscape shots, as well as a couple of images of particular trees and what not. Nothing was really striking me. I stopped for a minute to sit, and ponder. Oh, how I love to ponder. At any rate, I started to ponder about what on the shoreline appealed to me visually. Seeing as it was almost Memorial Day weekend, and thousands of annual summer residents were about to flood the state, I was struck by all the docks that were still pushed up on the shore.
I decided that those behemoths of lumber and steel, the very symbol of summertime recreation, would be my subject. My goal was to try to capture the feeling of that last weekend before summer, the metaphorical calm before the storm.
I used Lightroom for the majority of the edits and PS for some final processing. I beseech you to leave your thoughts - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
