Wooden Boats

Seatime

I recently spent two days shooting the wooden boat festival in Port Townsend, WA. It was a great outing, and I want to go back. Here are a couple shots from my trip. Whadya think?

Kevin Miller

rainbow

Welcome to DGrin!

I like the third one the best, probably because of the framing. First and third might improve if you had their faces showing.

I notice the Kavu hat in the first one -- it is a modern update of the "coolie" hat from China.

Thanks for sharing.

Seatime

Thanks for looking, Rainbow. That hat really caught my eye, and I'm glad to find out about its design. Very 'coolie' indeed.

kdog

Hi Kevin,

Welcome to Dgrin! Looks like a fun shoot there. Don't be afraid to post your pics in a larger size so that they can be enjoyed by old farts like me with bad eyes.

Love that last one. It's an amazing ship. I took the liberty of examining it in a huge size on your Smugmug gallery and love the details in that shot. That rigging is just unbelievable.

Regards,
-joel

Seatime

Thanks for the tip, Kdog. Didn't know if I could post huge pics here. That one shot of the schooner has more hits than anything. People seem to like those old rigs. I have a new appreciation for wood boats, but my hunch is they cost time and money to upkeep. Hard to do on a photographer's salary, right?

Thanks for giving a look.

Dogdots

Welcome to dgrin

#3 is my fav too I like the coloring you used in this photo.

Seatime

Thanks for looking and commenting, Dogdots. I'm honored that you took the time. I like #3 too, but it was just luck. During the festival, there is so much going on, you have to be quick. Things happen so fast, and there were boats going every which way. I wanted to isolate certain boats, so it was quite a challenge. I talked to another photographer there, and he told me the secret was to come a couple days early and shoot the boats as they show up in the harbor. Makes sense. It was my first time at a boat festival, and I'm glad to have what I got.

Thanks for the nice welcome!

Dogdots

Seatime wrote:

Thanks for looking and commenting, Dogdots. I'm honored that you took the time. I like #3 too, but it was just luck. During the festival, there is so much going on, you have to be quick. Things happen so fast, and there were boats going every which way. I wanted to isolate certain boats, so it was quite a challenge. I talked to another photographer there, and he told me the secret was to come a couple days early and shoot the boats as they show up in the harbor. Makes sense. It was my first time at a boat festival, and I'm glad to have what I got.

Thanks for the nice welcome!

Just took a look at your site Wow do I envy you -- living by the ocean next to all that beauty. That is "my heaven" as I lived in Monterey for awhile, but now as they say...I'm landlocked

Boats in water can move as fast as kids on land sometimes. You did a good job catching your photos