Photo of the Week 2025-11-10

 

Waiting for sunset, I worked compositions of the shoreline and rock outcrops at water's edge, Stone Beach, Lake Superior, Algoma District, ON

 

' formations '

It often happens after arriving at a location for a planned photo opportunity, there is time available to explore further. Whether waiting for others in the group, for a planned shot to develop, or quickly getting the planned shot, I try to make best use this extra time and opportunity.

The image above was captured during this "extra time", waiting for the sun to set across the vast Superior horizon. 

 

DJE 

Photo of the Week 2024-09-02

 

The need for an image to post weekly on the blog motivates me to pick up the camera even when life seems busy and full with other things as it is now. With bright sun and wind on Hay Bay, I tried some in-camera double exposure ICM images using the darks blend mode.

 

' rough shore '

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2017-12-04

Quietly they sit unnoticed. Tucked away among many of their kind. They wait for their moment, for their turn to be liberated.

above and below

I'm speaking of those 'gems in the rough', those image captures that reside in your storage media. They've played their part and been backed up, racked up and stacked up, all in the name of archiving.

Then one day they catch your eye. Something has changed. Not with them, but with you, the photographer. Perhaps just the right amount of time has passed for them to suitably marinate in your subconscious. Perhaps you have been stirred by some recent work from another, words of an instructor-mentor, obtaining new skills in the craft or some other experience on the current leg of your Photographic Journey.

Once noticed, they command your creative attention and you work with them, on them, and when all is done ... sometimes they see the light of day.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2013-09-23

The second in my "The Bruce Rocks" series ...

There is so much to see in the rock of the Bruce. At Little Cove, the waves of Georgian Bay have worn the surfaces of the larger dolomite blocks smooth and smaller rounded rocks are all that remain of others tumbled over each other for countless years.

TBR - Little Cove IV

The boulder beaches of the Bruce are a great place to sit and contemplate. See my recent blog post.

DJE

Photo(s) of the Week 2010-12-13

Normally I'll have an image in mind when I make plans to visit a specific location. Even if I have not been to the location before, I've likely checked it out on the internet and searched for images by other photographers. So when I took a vacation day this past Friday to visit the Bruce Peninsula, I was looking for a crisp clear sunrise shot across Georgian Bay with a rocky shoreline in the foreground.

Although the Bruce is easily accessible by car from Guelph where I live, the challenge is to be there early enough to capture sunrise when the drive can be 3 hours or more. So with another photographer, I set out and knocked off most of the drive Thursday evening before grabbing a motel for the night.

I have not visited the Bruce Peninsula extensively but from searching online I have a general familiarity with some of the more popular locations for photography. There are a number of locations where we could have set up for the shot I wanted and we decided to make our first stop at Cape Croker, specifically the lighthouse at the tip of Cape Croker. We arrived just after 7:00 am and weren't in a hurry because there was thick cloud cover and intermittent heavy snow and high wind ... we knew there would be no spectacular sunrise this day.

So what do you do when the elements do not cooperate and your planned shot is scuttled ?
... you capture what you are given.

Here I present a series of images from that first stop of the day:

rocks & wave


Cape Croker - waves 'n shore


cold wave


DJE