by

Photography: Beach Time

I’ve got a lot more photos from my June road trip to share with you, including these from my time spent at Little Whale Cove. I recently realized, or perhaps remembered again, how seeing the world through the camera lens is a bit like a time machine. It allows me to slow time enough to capture a single moment. It’s magic.

I hope you enjoy these photos. As always, let me know if you have a favorite.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

My daughter sifting through the sand

My spot

Me
  • These photos were taken with an Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW.

31 thoughts on “Photography: Beach Time”

  2. Lovely photos, Bridgette! You have lovely eyes. As Roy said, how do you get the critters to stand still for you? that’s the magic of photography, we can’t make time stop except with a camera. A frozen moment of existence in an ever evolving universe.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

      • Oh no! I’m so sorry that happened to you. That’s so scary!

        I was attacked by hornets a few years ago hiking with my kids. One of the kids stepped on a nest and they swarmed us. It was terrifying! I can’t stand the sight of a hornet now, and get that horrible shaky feeling I felt the day we all got attacked (I had about a dozen stings, as did both my small kids). But bees…they don’t bother me like hornets do. I guess it’s because, in general, they don’t seem to notice me. But if one buzzes at me, toward me, I do get uneasy.

        Liked by 1 person

      • I so-o-o-o love these days of digital photography. In the days of film one had to balance the cost of film (and developing) with ‘getting the shot’. When I rolled my own film into canisters, developed it, and had a darkroom to frame the shot as desired, I still weighed cost against artistic desire. Now I shoot a dozen or two of the waves just to hope I capture one that I want. To paraphrase a common saying, “What would you shoot if you could shoot anything and as much as you want?”

        Liked by 1 person

      • Agreed! When I was a journalist in college, I did photos for the newspaper as well. We had maybe one roll per weekly addition, and developed them ourselves in a darkroom. Now, I take a bunch of photos and know the more I take, the better the odds I’ll like a few 🙂

        Liked by 1 person

  9. 1-9, all just spectacular. And I really like your selfie. A lot of honesty in that one. I like it more than any I’ve seen of you, except your new photo in the blog’s title bar. I wish the background to “Me” had been more discernible–a sharp visual contrast to your face….or just blurred out of focus.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • Thank you so much for the kind words. Yeah, it’s hard to take a photo of myself, and this one was very honest. It’s been a rough time in my life. I keep thinking it will get better, and in many ways it has, but it still feels like I’m trudging through thick grass more days than not. Agreed about the background of my photo. I wish I’d angled it higher so you’d see the ocean inlet behind me.

      Often when I finish a photo shoot, I look back and see all the ways I could have improved the shot. I just did author photos for a friend and each one was just a little bit off. I’d really like a better camera, one I can view the photos I’ve just taken. Mine has that ability, but the screen is tiny and dark (hard to make out the details I notice later in editing). Something to work towards!

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

      • funny…I gave up large cameras for a point-and-shoot Nikon that fits in a pant pocket (and more importantly into my briefcase when I was a road warrior). The Nikon A900 has a bigger viewscreen than a lot of the super-more-expensive cameras I see. Additionally it tilts! I can hold it over my head, tilt it down and see what I’m aiming at! All that said, I’m taking more and more of my photos on my Pixel 8 Pro phone. The computer enhancement software ‘magic’ takes care of my old hands jiggling it, and the colors seem more true. I can make it focus where I want it to, unlike the Nikon. (I think I should start identifying which are which on my blog, like you do on yours…hmmm, good idea.)

        All that said, I miss the days of my old Honeywell Pentax SP-500 with it’s simple built-in light meter. Use the manually adjusted f-stop and shutter speed to line the needle into the notch of ‘good exposure’. Focus the lens by turning it. Take photo. I think when a camera can do everything, it can do nothing (so to speak). I’ve heard some young folk are using pinhole cameras to go back to the very basics of photography. Is this true?

        Liked by 1 person

      • I use my phone for some photos, but nothing really beats the ability to fuss with settings. While I get some good photos with my phone, they still aren’t the same quality, and can’t beat my camera’s ability to zoom in on tiny details.

        I know most photography students do start with pinhole cameras, to go back to the basics. It’s a good idea. With having a camera on their phones since they were born, it’s a new world for young photographers to explore the more nuts and bolts of light and dark.

        Liked by 1 person

Leave a reply to Bridgette Cancel reply