Tag Archives: seascape
Picture of the Week, 11/29/10
Witches Rock, Costa Rica
Witches Rock in the Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. This is a seldom seen view of the famous surfing landmark. It was taken half way down the trail head that begins on the Pan American Highway. Most surfers travel by boat and thus are not afforded this scaled back view of the rock.
Picture of the Week, 11/8/10
Birth of an island.
All it takes is a sandbar and a sprouting coconut and in a short time, geologically speaking, a new island will come to life. Of course you must add current, tide and wind with a dose of sunlight as your principal ingredients, and leave the bulldozers and condos for much later, for it to all work.
Picture of the Week, 11/1/10
This past week Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands were once again struck by a tsunami, which tragically killed hundreds of people and left villages in complete ruin. The Mentawai Islands lie within the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, an area in constant danger for catastrophe spawned from deep within the Earth.
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Picture of the Week, 10/28/10
Morning Commute.
This morning as I commuted to work from my bedroom to my office on the opposite side of the house, I fondly remembered this elderly couple in the Azores. Their commute to work was a bit different and made me glad to have remembered theirs.
Picture of the Week, 9/7/10
This week’s PoW was taken last week while Hurricane Earl brushed the US East Coast leaving in its wake little destruction but plenty of good, quality surf.
I had been surfing for two solid days and by the end of the second day began to feel guilty that I hadn’t taken a single photograph. When my arms would not paddle anymore I finally grab a camera and took a few shots as the swell began to subside.
I love the composition, symmetry and sense of location this image has and the touch of color provided by the two background ships. Still, the main focus remains on the surfer who is small in the frame but prominent in being the central figure in the photograph, both in action and in subject matter. The only thing missing from this image is sunlight, which unfortunately I had little control over the switch.
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Technical details:
- Nikon D3
- Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
- ISO 200
- 1/200 @ f/5.6, Aperture Priority
- Matrix Metering
- White Balance set to 5260K
Picture of the Week, 7/19/10
Sea gulls at Lucaya Beach Resort, Bahamas
While I’m aware that a few weeks ago I published a PoW photo of a bird I could not resist but do the same again this week, though in this case the bird (or rather birds) are sea gulls as oppose to the tern from the 6/22 PoW.
It was, to put it mildly, a rather surprising, entertaining and wild weekend and the only thing I can think of this Monday morning is how nice it would be to sit pool side over looking the ocean in the Bahamas, which is exactly what these lucky sea gulls are doing. My body and head would sure thank me for it!
Let me know if anyone else would like to join me.
(NOTE: All Picture of the Week images are available for purchase at http://tiny.cc/PoW where you can view the ever growing collection. Prints in three sizes and finishes can be bought inexpensively directly online. Start a collection or give them as gifts. Either way they are one of a kind Arruza images that tell a story.)
Technical details:
- Nikon D300
- Nikkor 50mm/1.4D
- 1/640 @ f/9
- ISO 200
- Matrix Metering and Aperture Priority
- White Balance set manually @ 5260K