Heading out to catch the Orient Point Ferry one misty Long Island morning, I had to fight with myself not to stop every time I saw a beautiful soft image in the misty distance. After giving a few up, I decided to stop and grab a couple of beautiful memories of Long Island as the buds start to show. Spring in the East End wineries. So lovely to see the beautiful pastel landscape beckoning to be captured. I found a wonderful image of the new vines ready to capture this life giving moisture to the grapes that will soon be hanging heavy throughout the vineyard. I just need to let you know that if I were not speaking in Cape Cod, I could have easily and happily spent the day shooting, and would have been miserably sad that I would be running out of light. I had to keep to a schedule which really meant that I would continue enjoying the miserable, raw, windy, rainy, mist that is New England!
Long gone are the days where I drove around Long Island in the fog, in the middle of the night. The days of Mary Tyler Moore on every night at 2 AM. Well, I have not had the pleasure of stepping away from the slide duplicating to enjoy a break with Mary and Rhoda, yes, Morgenstern, but I recently landed in NYC’s JFK Airport at 11 PM. I grabbed a rent a car and headed East. These days I stay with my great family/friends, they are one and the same in this case, way out East in Calverton. This is the area that I used to fly my hot air balloon, nice open fields, minimally residential, although it continues to grow, now populated with tons of deer, wold turkeys, so many critters. This is a nice, dark, rural area, that luckily is a few degrees cooler than the big city in the west, perfect for doing some fog images! I decided, especially since I was at the end of the weather and some big winds started to kick up. I pulled out my tripod and mounted my 1D Mark IV fit with a 24-105 mm f/4 lens, setting the iso to 6400. It was like daylight as I found a single light source, that combined with the moisture in the air, lit up the normally black, lifeless sky that was now a wonderful grey glow. Wonderful separation for the backlit young leaves growing from the spring buds. It really is a great feeling to see something in your miond and go out and create it with the tools that we have today, the low noise at high iso, the magnificent color and sharpness let us go where a decade ago we only dreamed of! To me, photography gets better each and every time that a new camera model is released! I cannot wait for the next round….soon….not soon enough though!
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