Winter Coastline

Yesterday along the coast, we had exceptionally high surf and temps in the low 20's F (-6C) - making shooting somewhat daunting. As the surf rolled in - the sea-spray would turn into an icy slush, covering the rocks - and unsuspecting photographers ("me" ;) ) and equipment. The soft winter light, however  - was just tremendous.

This was taken with my Sony A7R II and the Sony-Zeiss 16-35mm with a 10-stop ND, tripod mounted - giving a 20 second exposure at f/16 - 100 ISO. The image was processed in PerfectPhoto Suite, then finished in Lightroom for export as a JPG for the Web.

Erosion

It's interesting to visit one of the areas on Great Bay, and watch how the trees hang-off the shoreline in a desperate attempt to cling to life while sustaining the shoreline. Inevitably though, the water and erosion always win.

This was taken yesterday with my Olympus OM-D e-M5 Mark II with a vintage Olympus-Zuiko 18mm f/3.5 lens - a wonderful combination and a difficult lens to find in the used market. But, if you enjoy the look and feel of images created with lenses designed or film cameras - this lens is as good as it gets.

I also tried a different way to post-process this image - and used Photoshop, Topaz and NIK almost exclusively. Someday, when I have time, I'll try to write a quick outline if someone is interested

First Frost

It was bound to happen - our first hard frost last evening. This morning - is was "brisk", but it gave me the opportunity to work on a different aspect to my photography - Macro Photography. I'm the first to admit, I have a lot of learning to do in the specialized area of photography - but, I find it fascinating nonetheless.

The image above was taken with my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II of my wife's mums - covered at first light with a hefty coating of frost. this was focus stacked and post-processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.