On Friday afternoon, I headed down to the lake and put the kayak in the water. I specifically left the “ode rig” at home and took only my little Nikon V1.
My intent was to force myself to look of things, other than odes, to photograph.
My thought was to cruise the shore line and to look for details that might make interesting photographs.
My inspiration is the book “Intimate Landscapes” by Eliot Porter, in which the photographer concentrates on “details” in the landscape rather than broad, sweeping views. Porter was also a pioneer in using color film for landscape photography.
While on the lake, I had a close encounter with a loon, I had seen this loon on the surface a number of times, but was pretty much ignoring it since I had the 10-30 mm lens on the camera. However, at one point “he” popped up very close to me (and the shore). I was able to switch to the 30-100 mm lens and make a five or six frames (in about 90 seconds) before he was gone.
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Great Loon Shots Frank. I have tried many times to get half this close. Great little camera!
K
Comment by Kevin — 7 September 2013 @ 2:58 PM