Seascape

Cairn

This photo is taken for the project "Hands." The cairn is a marker that guides a hiker through the forest the same way our minds guide our hands through what we create. What we create is an impression, our signature, something to let others know we once treaded this Earth. The man before I created this cairn. I see the cairn and know what he was thinking when his hands stacked the rocks.

Path To The Sea

This photo was taken for the project "Hands." Our hands is a way for us to create to visualize what we envision.

About The Photo: The cairn here is built up by somebody who came here before me as I saw his/her foot prints leading northway. Shot at f/1.8, 1/160th, 35mm ISO 100.

The Process: I wanted a more focused, intimate view of the little sculpture so I zoom to 35mm and shot at f/3.5 to get a little bit of background blur, enough to know where it is.

Smoooooooth

This photo was taken for the project "Food." For thousands of years, mankind has sourced the oceans and seas for food. Fish, lobster, clams, all come from the sea. You'll notice that many settlements ocurred near bodies of water. The settlers are able to obtain food by fishing or spearing. The sea provides seafood for the settlers and water for their crops

About The Photo: About 96% of the Earths surface is covered in water. Water is an essential and sacred resource to life. Without water, many organisms would not exist.

The Process: When I hear the word "food," I don't think about grocery stores and greasy burgers. Instead, I think about the origin, the processes, and how lucky I am to be able to live on this planet which sustains life. Food is just the simplified term for an energy source in which our bodies can't convert via metabolic processes to keep us alive.

Leading Light

This photo was taken for the project "Monochromatic." When colors are rubbish and light is bad, make it black and white. And that's exactly what I did.

About The Photo: I decided to hop my way down to PHL for a sunset shoot. Unfortunately, clouds filled the sky on the trip to and the wind picked up. Little did I know, this only made for a better photo.

The Process: I've been wanting to do this kind of shot for months now and finally gotten my chance to. I think it turned out perfect. The only thing I change about it is if the clouds were parallel to the lighthouse. The wind was blowing like crazy and it was getting cold but I'm quite heppy with the result. Shot at f/11, 2m36s, ISO 100.

Twilight

This photo was taken for the project "Complementary Colors." The key to good photography is good light. Landscape photography consists of capturing the moment when the nature is bathed in that pink and purple and golden and blue. I was able to capture just that. Nature already has this figured out; when the sunrise/set is orange, the rest of the sky is blue.

About The Photo: I was chillin' at the docks one day waiting for my shipment (nah, I'm not an underground marketer). The sun was setting very far right and it casted this rather spectacular orange light across the sky. The empty boat signifies it is the end of the day. The dinghy bobbed up and down and made these ripples in the water. The texture of ripples adds a new feel to it.

The Process: Unlike most of my photos, this one was heavily editedededed to make it suit the look I wanted. The water was not blue, it was a moss green and the sky was not that orange, more like a Saharan Yellow. Shot at f/8, 1/10th, ISO 100.

Color Splash And A Dash Of Elegance

This photo was taken for the project "Primary Colors." Not sure what to say for this one. I was hanging around the sea at high tide whilst the sun was setting and ended up getting this amazing shot. That's the thing I love most about winter; the sunrises and sunsets. Something about the cold winter air that causes the light to be so intense and vibrant.

About The Photo: The composition I was going for was a vertical shot because I wanted that nice depth where you have a foreground element to"anchor" the image and having the subjects lead all the way to the interesting bit that makes a landscape picture worth looking at; the colors of life.

The Process: I took a similar picture a while back with a tidepool as a main subject or point of interest. The surface of the pool was frozen over and had this really nice texture to it. I think it would have looked a bit different if the pool was still liquid and if I used a longer shutter speed say 15s to smoothen it out. After some good times in the color correction room, I am quite pleased with how it turned out. Shot at f/16, 6s, ISO100, 19mm.

Back In Those Days...

This photo was taken for the project "Still Life." As you can probably tell, it's another photo by the sea. So much of the ocean... The reason why is because my ancestors lived near the river which they used for crop irrigation and fish farming. My grandfather (pa's pa) was in the Navy during World War 2 and my father was an engineer in the petroleum industry which provided fuels for large battleships.

About The Photo: Ever since 1932, my pa's family have lived by the "Pearl Canal" on the south side of Guangzhou where the fish would be brought into the markets and where the petrol would be delivered on small vessels out to the battlecruisers and frigates for refueling. On my ma's side, they relied on the streams and rivers for crops and fishing. Now to present time, pa always takes me fishing during the summer and he says he'll never forget seeing the waves crash against the harbor's "firewall" and the smell of seaweed on his clothes.

The Process: Well, I can't really replicate the vision from my ancestors' eyes. All I can do is take the story they've passed down and interpret it from my perspective as a landscape photographer. The sea, the rocks, the waves... Shot at f/8, 1/6th, ISO 100, 18mm.

Colours of Life

This photo was taken for the project "Reflection." For the past 2 weeks or so, I've been kind of uninspired to go out and do any sort of photography. It just wasn't happening for me at all. After feeling discouraged for some time, I just said "screw it" and grabbed the gear and headed out with the feeling it would just be another day of meh colors and just ok compositions. Holy $h!t was I wrong. I arrived at the location just the crucial moments before sunset and quickly ran down to the shoreline and stabbed the tripod into the ground. Oh my gawd, upon looking at the first exposure, I nearly soiled my trousers.

About The Photo: You know, after living in Maine for 18 years now, I have always dreamed about seeing the magenta and pink sunrises but never having actually seen the view myself. I've had this image in my head for about 4 months now and I finally gotten the chance to execute. Though, it isn't the exact composition I was shooting for, it still has the same color and points of interest being the piles and having them reflect off the water at high tide.

The Process: The look I was going for was having the piles as the subject of interest and them leading out creating a sense of depth. The thing that would have made this image complete was having a circular polariser to cut through the surface of the water and being able to see the rocks beneath, I think that would have been absolutely stunning. Besides that, I am quite heppy with the result. Nothing a little post processing can't fix eh? Shot at f/8, 220s, ISO 100, 18mm.

The Difference

This photo was taken for the project "Negative Space." This was more of a "fine art" shoot. I really like simplicity when it comes to black and white. Of course, contrast is key.

About The Photo: Sometimes, when there's a lot of negative space, it gives a sense of scale and vastness. My first ideer was to find a lone tree in an open field but that didn't happen because no open fields around here with a lone twee. So, I reverted to plan B: seascape photography. I hopped my way down to the waters and waited for a nice sunset. This was shooting with the light and I had hoped for it to be illuminated but that didn't happen, probably spent too much time thinking about it than actually doing. I like the symmetry of this though, it looks like a very modern black and white art piece.

The Process: I balanced myself on a couple of rocks and aimed for a very formally balanced composition because I had dah dah dah dah...reflection! Yes, I was dere with the ideer fo reflection in mind because you can see the reflection eh? But I think it plays out more in just a single point of interest being the land. I think the next negative space I would go for in a couple of rocks protruding the waters surface and like, misty skies. I think that would be...A+. Shot at f/10, 30s, ISO 100, 29mm.

Simply Me

This photo was taken for the project "Self-Portraiture." You know, I'm a simple man. I do not demand much, I do not strive for much. Just give me a hammer and some duct tape, I'll engineer my way through this.

About The Photo: I chose this picture to represent me and my personality. I am overall a simple person as shown by the rather easy composition. But generally, I am also an upbeat and lively person when I'm in my zone, that is, within the boundaries of nature (landscape). That's the best part, there are no boundaries in nature. This planet is open for me to roam, as far as my little legs can carry me. I wake up to the sounds of a babbling brook or the sweet bird song and I fall asleep after bathing in the ethereal light of our sunsets

The Process: I just love of easy this is for me. When it comes to me, I know how I am: I do not need much to be happy. This photo represents just that. I was aiming for a balanced photo where the light colors express the liveliness of me. The smooth waters say that I am calm. If you look closely, you can that sliver of black treeline, that is my dark side... Shot at f/16, 20s, ISO 100, 35mm.

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