Guided Tour to the Gift Shop...
...Snapshots from a Maritimes Holiday...
...Snapshots from a Maritimes Holiday...
Cameras are more ubiquitous today than ever before in our history. From our iphones to point & shoots to the consumer DSLRs that more serious amateurs insist upon, literally everyone carries some form of picture taking device with them these days. The camera is no longer just for the family holiday or special events. We now seem to photograph even the most mundane moments of our lives to be posted almost instantaneously in some form of Social Media for all our chosen friends to see. Still, to previous generations the camera had always been an almost required accessory for the vacationing tourist to capture and preserve those treasured holiday moments for future reminiscence, to be trotted out for slide projection when friends and family visit or kept in leather bound photo albums for future generations to behold.
So what then does a photographer do when on holiday? I take pictures, of course! Nova Scotia has become my second home as I have travelled there every year for the past decade to spend time with my wife's family and friends. It's stunning, rocky shoreline has become an on-going landscape and nature project for me, one which I never tire of...but every now and then I just have to let myself be a tourist and take in the sights. How then do I distinguish my photos of landmark sites from the sea of tourist imagery flooding the visual cyber-universe ?
For your viewing pleasure are my "snapshots" of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in historic Lunenburg, NS. Renown for it's fishing and boat building, Lunenburg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The museum charts the course of fishing and maritime rum-running history in the area. Old and storied vessels occupy it's dock for boarding and closer inspection.
For me the best course of action in photographing this museum is to ignore the big picture. It seems to me that not only can one find the devil in the details, but also the beauty. My eye seeks color, form and line, abstracting them from the greater environment to hopefully create pleasing composition. The colors you see here are not the product of post production photoshop manipulation. Rather, they are captured in the intensity and clarity of the late afternoon Nova Scotian sun with the aid of a polarizing filter to eliminate glare and increase saturation.
