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Peggy Heise
{K:937} 12/27/2002
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Excellent photos! I looked at your work and next time I'm near a lighthouse I'll try and make it more interesting. Thanks Gary. :)
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Gary Martin
{K:579} 12/26/2002
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For what it's worth Thibault, if you look at the "legs" of the catwalk going out, they're all starting to show some icing. It isn't quite cold enough yet for it to build up as the pounding waves keep washing it away as it forms this time of year. In contrast, the lighthouse and outer reaches of the catwalk always ice up first from the billowing clouds of spray thrown up by waves slamming into the end of the pier and freezing up high enough where the waves never reach to break off the ice. Later in the year when it's consistently cold, there will be ice all the way out the catwalk and completely encrusting the outer light at a minimum. As for going out on the pier on a day like last Saturday to get a closer shot of the ice... only if you have a death wish. You'd have about 3 minutes in that water at its present temperature to get out before it killed you. As it was, my effective focal length was 420 mm and I probably couldn't have shot in those winds with my 500 mm and a teleconverter.. not enough light to get a shutter speed high enough to keep the wind from buffeting the lens and blurring the image.
As for the sky, yep, pretty much featureless but I didn't want to crop away any of the spray billow from that wave.
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tess campbell
{K:515} 12/26/2002
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was wondering if you were out there Gary..heres my answer....
amazing that these lights can continue to funtion after a battering like this...
beautiful work...you have captured the awesome power of nature
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Thibault Grouas
{K:848} 12/26/2002
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The timing is nice and the wave breaking on the lighthouse is nice. The path on the left leeds us to the subject of the photograph.
However it seems (unclear for me) that the sea water is frozen close to the lighthouse. This is really interesting and I would have liked to see this ice more in detail.
What I don't like about this shot is :
- The sky, not very interesting, occupies exactly half of the image.
- I find the gull only distracting and not too esthetic... I prefer the shot without gull.
Anyways this is a nice place.
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Jim Fuglestad
{K:1564} 12/26/2002
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Woah! Gary, awesome. Superb timing. Like this a lot.
Jim
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