Journalhttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/en-US2010-03-11T02:05:46ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)whelk leghttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/3/8/whelk-leg.htmlsippican images2010-03-08T17:48:36Zrock water whelki'd just about given up on ever seeing the sun again...but at last, a few sunny days!  no clouds for sunset :( but it's hard to complain - colors still happen :)))

i am very fond the of partial shells, and the inner spiral core of the whelk in particular...this one lying in the pebbles brought out a lot of sunset color!  yesterday was my lucky day twice over - a sunset with sun (!!!) and a lovely whelk core :)

]]>rock in the storm surf 1http://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/26/rock-in-the-storm-surf-1.htmlsippican images2010-02-27T00:48:29Zclouds rock shore waterthe-storm-that-never-leaves brought another day of no sun...but at least no rain either, really.  just wind, south wind but still raw and cold, and clouds.  i was hoping the sun could poke through but no such luck.  still, i went out at sunset just for the exercise since it was the first day all week it was not raining!  i took the wide angle to get the dark and stormy clouds and the waves.  as soon as i set the tripod i could tell something good was happening :)  this is the first shot i took, and i ended up staying about 30 minutes :)))))

 

]]>translucent scallop shellhttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/24/translucent-scallop-shell.htmlsippican images2010-02-24T16:59:12Zscallop shell waterthat same day this scallop shell being back lit by the sunset as it stood up in the rocks caught my eye!  but i did not have my macro lens with me, only the wide angle...the next day i went back and brought the macro, and sure enough it was still there, right at the edge of the water!  how often does that happen???  and the light was not as sweet for landscape shots as the day before had been so i was not torn about what to concentrate on :)

later i realized that almost a year ago i had found another such scallop shell being backlit - i guess i like them!!

]]>47 minutes with a lenshttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/21/47-minutes-with-a-lens.htmlsippican images2010-02-21T13:21:10Zrock shore wateryesterday was fun :) as i headed out the clouds that had been taunting me all day were disappearing, but it was so warm and pleasant i had to go enjoy it. the low tide, an average one of 0.0', was occuring 16 minutes before sunset, so a tide low enough to expose this rock and allow me to get close to it - my boots are only knee high!  i brought only my new wide angle lens.  these images follow the progression of the light and of the photographer as i move in on the rock.  #1 sets the scene, and #2 is some 12 minutes later, about 3 minutes after the tide turned.  sunset occured between #3 and #4, and #5 is about 20 minutes after sunset, 10 minutes after #4,  requiring an exposure of 25 seconds, twice as long as #4 needed!  47 minutes from #1 to #5, and all with the same wide angle lens...

#1 the scene

#2 just after the tide turned

#3 before sunset

#4 after sunset

#5 in the gloaming

]]>warm winter sunsethttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/18/warm-winter-sunset.htmlsippican images2010-02-19T02:49:55Zmarshgrass shore sunset waterthe sunset was not spectacular tonight, but it was so warm and pleasant out for a change i could not resist :)


]]>winter whelkhttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/12/winter-whelk.htmlsippican images2010-02-12T17:39:19Zice shell snails whelkjust as i was leaving the other night i found this twosome!

]]>whelk in icehttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/9/whelk-in-ice.htmlsippican images2010-02-09T14:49:44Zice rock shell whelki sense a theme here recently :)

the harbor is not frozen although around the edges and in corners the cold nights and days have started to grow ice and snow, especially along the tide line.  yesterday afternoon i found this shell with some lovely color to it as well.  the problem was that, since the tripod (and me!) were in the slushy icy water the waves and wind would knock the large floating chunks of ice into the tripod during the longer exposures...a real challenge to get a clean shot!

]]>incoming icehttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/7/incoming-ice.htmlsippican images2010-02-07T18:01:18Zice shore sunset wateri watched the last 2 afternoons slowly cloud over to gloomy skies...well, yesterday it was just like that all day :((  however i managed to capture a bit of color at a cloudless sunset the night before :

]]>ice teethhttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/2/4/ice-teeth.htmlsippican images2010-02-04T17:31:11Zicea nice low tide and ice got me out the other day, even though the light was not great...when it's really cold the receding tides leaves enough water to freeze!  this was taken an hour before sunset (well there was never a sun to set that afternoon) so this freeze happened during daylight...brrrr...

 

]]>storm debris sunsethttp://www.sippicanimages.com/journal/2010/1/26/storm-debris-sunset.htmlsippican images2010-01-27T00:10:33Zshore sunsetafter the wild day yesterday things were a bit calmer today.  the sun finally poked through in the early afternoon, but the wind was raw and the clouds were many...as soon as i got to the shore i saw this pile of debris left from yesterday afternoon's storm surge and wanted to compose a sunset shot around it :) i ended up taking only a few shots of it because the colors and the clouds were mostly elsewhere :( but i am pleased to have gotten this one!

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