Mid-Coast Maine

hawkeye978

Spent last weekend in the Brunswick area ranging from Harpswell Island out to Pemaquid Point. Here are a few I've processed so far.

#1 Lonely Kayaks



This is at one end of the Cribstone Bridge on Harpswell Island, Maine

#2 Classic Pemaquid


You just can't help from taking the iconic shots. This is Pemaquid Lighthouse. This granite area leads you from the water up to the lighthouse. I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes every night and takes a hose to this basin to be sure it's full of water :rofl. I was a little lucky here in that the brisk wind had calmed for a second.

#3 Shadows on the Rocks



Sunset was getting closer and got some interesting images of the colors in the granites and the sunset light on the lighthouse.

C&C always welcome. Others can be found here....

Thanks for looking.

lensmole

Nice set of images but I have never been able to understand why people take landscape photos in a portrait style format it just seems to go against the grain of things but that's just me.

bryanj87

Cool shots, I really like that last one.

Islandcrow

I think the portrait images works quite well. It does seem like an oxymoron, but sometimes just works.

hawkeye978

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

As far as portrait vs. landscape, I use portrait a lot because there are times when a vertical composition seems to me to be a better way to convey the sense of the location. In the case of these pictures, I was trying to show the long sweep of granite up from the water to the lighthouse. I don't think I could have gotten the same feeling in a horizontal composition.

kdog

Very nice, Tom. Looking forward to seeing more of your trip.

anonymouscuban

hawkeye978 wrote: »

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

As far as portrait vs. landscape, I use portrait a lot because there are times when a vertical composition seems to me to be a better way to convey the sense of the location. In the case of these pictures, I was trying to show the long sweep of granite up from the water to the lighthouse. I don't think I could have gotten the same feeling in a horizontal composition.

Completely agree with you. I'm no landscape photography expert but I often find portrait mode works best for some scenes. On rule I have is that I at least look at a scene in portrait just for good measure. More often than not, I find a comp that works really well in portrait. Additionally, almost all panorama stitches I do are composed of exposures taken in portrait.