2013 – Looking back, part 6

 

Without any doubt our vacation trip to the coast of Maine in October was something I really have looked forward to. It is a wonderful landscape with many facets and endless opportunities for photography. I have loved boats and harbors since I was a little boy. Watching the lobster boats going out or coming back from a catch and all the busy activities in a wharf still fascinate me. Getting up early or staying late in the evening is the key for catching the boats in best light.

Many of the lobster boats got very “colorful” names by their owners. I talked to this lobster man after he landed his catch. I told him I liked the name of his boat “JUST BITCHIN”. He said that it was his two sons who told him to name it this way, because that’s what he is doing all the time, “just bitchin”… I thought that was a funny little story, worth to be told here in the blog.

Let the details tell the visual story

 

We all get overwhelmed sometimes by the great “postcard views” or focus only on the iconic elements a particular shooting location has to offer. It is easy to overlook the details that surround a great place. Sometimes the light that hits those details has a  particular quality that makes them stand out and tell a visual story.

We have visited many of the lobster wharfs along the Maine coast. Beside eating there fresh lobster big time, we found countless opportunities to make the click. The detail shots I show you today are from different locations and different times of the day. There are some early morning and late evening shots and a couple were made completely in the shade. But they all got some quality light that brings the colors to life or pronounces the shape and suddenly a rough working place like a lobster wharf reveals a lot of beauty…

Lovely coast of Maine

 

The first three days at the coast of Maine were really lovely. The days started out very foggy but became warm and clear during the late morning. We explored the area around Freeport with its bays and little wharfs. Everything is colorful and it is not difficult to find interesting things to put the lens on. Most things here have to do with catching lobsters. Every restaurant has lobster on the menu in different variations and many people here try to make a living from this industry. I love to watch the lobster boats, even if they are just moored in a harbor. None of them look alike and even in the fog they make for a nice photography subject.