One of the very best aspects of sitting on the cliffs at Pelican Point is that it often puts you at, or even above, the flight path of the seagulls, pelicans, hawks, and ravens that cruise the coastline.
The downside is that it really puts the memory card in your digital camera through its paces.
Not that there’s anything wrong with taking literally hundreds and hundreds of photos in an hour.
It’s just that it can get so painful to decide what to keep and what to dump.
For a painter who’s always on the lookout for a great reference shot for an upcoming painting, it means you or your designated alternate (the wee wifey, say…) shoot, keep, process, and store thousands and thousands and THOUSANDS of photos.
I mean, really… is this shot that much different than the one above it, or the five others that where shot in between them? Same bird…
The answer is “yes, in ways too numerous to count.”
Even within a single shot, there are multiple images that can–and must–be harvested.
From one perspective, it’s all about the context and spatial relationships between objects…
From another, it’s about body shape and color.
And from yet another, it’s about how freaking wonderful life is as you recline on a cliff in the late afternoon light, leaning against your sweetie, shooting photos of seagulls.
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