Photo of the Week 2016-06-06

What do you do when when it's just another version of a scene you've captured before ... 

... as Friday night reminded me yet again, you go and photograph it again, because there is always something different. It's always worth another go. Your frame of mind will be different, your vision will be different, conditions will be different and sometimes ... your luck will be different. That's right, your luck !

I'm a firm believer that the harder you work, the more you try, the luckier you will be. It applies to literally everything. So, photographically speaking, even when you have shot the scene before, go back and capture it again, see just what might be different or how you can improve on your image from the last time

Case in point, my sunset image made in Tobermory this past Friday night. Heading up Hwy 6, as we got close to the cottage, the sun was dropping quickly, it was closing in on 9 pm. I  thought to myself, "you got some sunset images from the village a couple of weeks ago, how would sunset shots tonight be any different tonight". I know, right? Well, we wouldn't make the cottage in time to get the kayaks out and get on the water for a sunset paddle anyway, so I decided to make the short detour into the village just to have a look.

Now I won't try to tell you that I had any idea I would get something like this, but the harder you try ... and as luck would have it, I got something quite different.

matchstick sunset

Part of making good photographs is being ready with your camera gear, knowing what conditions to plan for, were to go, and just getting out to that spot to shoot ... and then sometimes, every now and then, it all comes together and luck adds the final touch.

Serendipity Rocks !

DJE