Category Archives: Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week; 2/13/12

Oh, the things we share our living spaces with.  Boats are notorious for serving as storage sheds – storage for all the things you’ve accumulated over the years, but that serve no purpose, and you can’t get rid of.  So throw them in the boat.  And when you head out to the marina to go sailing, you can just move it out of the way or ignore it.
Liveaboards are on the other end of the “accumulated things” spectrum.  The boats are storage areas, but only for the few things that we have room for, because it’s also our living space.

I was eating lunch with my two new anchors at my side, staring at my sailmaking machine, and thought to myself “hmm, I never thought I’d share my living room/dining room with two anchors and a sewing machine.”   I was obligated to take a picture of the scenario.

The anchors are new, to replace the one twenty-pounder that came with the boat, and I’ll be writing a post about replacing all of my ground tackle once that process is complete.

32mm, ISO800, f4.0, 1/15 sec, bounce flash off the cabin top.

Photo of the Week; 2/6/12

Am I really recycling photos?

Well, yes, and no.

Reality has again hit me and I was unable to get a photo worth sharing this week.  I’m not 100% perfect – but close – and now I must adapt.  I have been going through old previously unpublished photos, and found some worth breathing some life into.  So that’s what I’ll be doing if I can’t snap a good one during the week.

This photo is from a pizzeria in Rome.  This pigeon thought it could get away with stealing a sliced tomato from this pizza until I stuck my camera lens in its face.  Sorry buddy, there’s plenty of tomatoes in Rome.  105mm, ISO800, f5.6, 1/250sec.

Photo of the Week; 1/30/12

Just a day late getting this out for the week of 1/30/12.  There’s really no story behind this one.  I was walking the dock one night, the sky was a spectacular color, the water was amazingly calm, and the reflections were unreal.

You’re looking at the bow of a sailboat reflected in the water, with the dock lines coming off the side.  The anchor is visible at top and the furling jib at the bottom.  200mm, ISO400, f/5.6, 1/10 sec.

Photo of the Week; 1/23/12

I had good intentions, I really did.  I’m talking about my self-imposed weekly photography assignments.  It sounded like a great idea, one that I’ll hang on to.  But the reality of my current situation is that I don’t have the time to stalk these assignments every week and come out with something that I’m proud of.  For example, last week’s assignment was to create something with an exposure longer than one second.  My availability did not lend to finding compositions that would require exposures that long.  I’ll definitely be keeping up with the photo of the week, but after the above excuses, I’ll just be looking for targets of opportunity.  Like what Monday’s fog presented.

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Photo of the Week; 1/9/12

I decided to step a little bit out of my “norms” for this week’s (really last week’s) photo-of-the-week assignment.  I wanted to walk around Washington’s historic Harbor District and find some interesting windows.  Some of the buildings date back to the 18th century, and almost all of them have an interesting character about them.  This week’s photo is of the Fowle Warehouse.

The Fowle Warehouse was built in the early-to-mid 1800s and survived a brutal Civil War battle. Washington, NC

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Photo of the Week; 12/26/11

Lake Tahoe State Park, Nevada

This week, I went out with the intent of making photographs involving “reflections”.  What better place than beautiful Lake Tahoe, with the mountains, sky, trees, and boulders all offering their contribution.  Too bad there was no snow! Continue reading

Photo of the Week; 12/19/11

I started off the morning of Christmas Eve walking through Dana Point Harbor in Orange County, California.  This place had somewhat special significance to me, as it was the place where I was first introduced to sailboats and sailing while I was still in grade school. Continue reading

Photo of the Week; 12/12/11

After realizing that I’ve been neglecting my camera in favor of constantly working on my boat, I needed an excuse to drop the tools and pick up the camera.  So I’ve instituted the Photo of the Week.  Each week I’ll give myself an assignment, such as “go out and capture a scene that conveys despair”, “create a photo of a window”, or some other such nonsense to keep my creativity going.  This is Week One! Continue reading