EARLY DEPARTURE

Early departure, New Harbor, Maine

The first lobster boat left the harbor about 25 minutes before sunrise. It only takes a few minutes to load the barrel with bait for the lobster traps at the wharf but the real hard work starts when they reach the first trap a bit later. The sky to the east was still covered with a band of clouds and the golden light I was hoping for didn’t happen that morning at the end of September. But a story can still be told with the photo. The powerful spot lights on the boat deliver more than just a silhouette and the light in the background helps to tell the story, just in a slightly different way than what I had in mind.

Nikon Z6 III, Nikon NIKKOR Z 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S, @100mm, 1/400s, f/4.5, ISO 10000, -1.67EV

OUT EAST AGAIN

Lobster boats in the harbor of Lubec, the easternmost town of the US

I wanted to go back to the coast of Maine, one of my favorite landscapes in the United States, since a long time. Ending the day with a good lobster dinner right at the wharf where the caught lobsters are delivered and watching the light of the setting sun touching the boats is priceless.

DIGGIN’ FOR AN OLD STORY ABOUT LIGHT…

Lobster boat leaving harbor at sunrise ------   

Commitments kept me grounded today, at least photographically seen, but there is always the chance to go into the photo library and dig out an image that has not seen the light of the day yet. I have created a book about the coast of Maine some time ago, sure sign that I’m in love with this area, and I like to return to the photos I made in 2013 at the Atlantic coast of the United States.

I can ensure you this is not just nostalgic thoughts of an aging man. It was the incredible light Joan and I have experienced during early morning and late afternoon hours that made us fell in love with Maine. Well, Joan may add that 50% was the limitless availability of fresh lobster and I have a hard time to argue about that…😉

Back to the light, I think during our visit in Maine it was the first time that I started really to understand what the term “quality of light” means. The photo above is not in my “coffee-table book” (Deutsch: Bildband), but if there is ever a second edition, I will consider this picture. Light as seen makes story telling a breeze…