Time for a New Beginning « White Crane Photography

This has been quite a year already. It’s had its share of ups and downs… more ups, but a pretty major down that I’m still getting over, and finally a new beginning. White Crane Photography is now officially an LLC, my print portfolio is just about ready, and my new site is live at last.

Finally, I have a new web site, with a much nicer gallery than before, though without the handy e-commerce that SmugMug provided, plus a new blog engine that’s both nicer than Blogger, but more importantly, no longer separate from my site like my Blogger blog was.

This image is from my first trip to the Oregon coast. Down in Bandon, we found that the beach had a large collection of sea stacks with a wide variety of sizes and shapes, making for a promising opportunity. So we made a point of being there for both sunset and sunrise, and the results were worth it.

In this image, captured after the sun had dropped below the horizon, illustrates the value of staying past sunset. This sunset wasn’t at all dramatic, the clouds were too dense to give us one of the really beautiful sunsets that we often see over the Pacific, but we had some very soft light with relatively low contrast. I spend some time studying the way that the water surged and flowed around the massive boulders on the beach so that I could find a spot that would provide a nice leading line in the foreground with a long exposure to draw the eye into the image here.

It seems as if I didn’t get any Enchantments passes in the lottery, which means that I’ll have to play the odds to get in… or go in October and brave the cold and weather, but with the possibility of golden larches.

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