Doesn't Cost to Point and Shoot
First, it’s a great photo. The sky is a variety of shades of lighter blue; the ocean is a variety of shades of darker blue.
The boats are pointed to the horizon, as if longing to be there. The subtle green, orange and yellow adds highlights to the picture and brings out the life-saving equipment on the boats and the pedantic existence of those items that cannot put out to sea.
The second reason I love this photo is that it proved a point. It was taken somewhere on Prince Edward Island during our first trip there in 2008.
Before we set out, I provided Julie with a camera and asked her to take pictures. “What will I take pictures of?” she asked.
“Anything,” I replied. “It’s a digital camera. It doesn’t cost anything to point and shoot.”
As I said, this picture was taken somewhere on Prince Edward Island. I suspect it was during our day trip to Tignish, but I’m not sure.
I actually “found” this image as a smaller part of a larger image that was snapped as we went by on the motorcycle. This image occupied about one-fifth of the frame. I found it, expanded it, altered the colours a tiny bit and voila!! A 16x20 of this picture has been up on the wall of our house for more than a decade.
This picture, and that trip, ignited a photographic bug in my partner that has led to more than 25,000 photos from all 10 of Canada’s provinces, the west coast of the United States, the loneliest highway in America, Great Britain, Shanghai, China, and more than 3,000 photographs from our recent trip to Japan.
Not all of these photos are as beautiful as this one. But, as I explained to my partner, if one in a hundred is a really good picture, with 25,000 frames, you will have some excellent pictures. And, unlike the old days when photography was expensive, you can afford to shoot to your heart’s content with digital photography.
And she has. We both have.
The purpose of this blog is to share that beauty. After all, what good are the photos if they only sit on our computer?
Photography is like a chocolate bar. If you eat it alone, all you gain is calories and guilty pleasure. If you share it, you still get the sweet pleasure, but you also gain the joy of bringing happiness to others.
Enjoy!
