Monday, March 23, 2015

Maritimes Miscellanea

I know what you've been thinking. This guy has been milking his last trip to Nova Scotia an awful lot. That was the Christmas/New Year holiday. Spring is here now. When are we going to see some more recent work? Honestly, i'm just about done, but here are a few miscellaneous items that didn't quite fit into the narrative of my previous blog posts, yet, i believe, deserve a viewing. Hopefully you feel the same. I can't guarantee there won't be a few stragglers to come, but i should be moving on to new territory after this. 

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LaHave River; Ferry; Ice; River; Crossing; Nova Scotia
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Surf; Atlantic Ocean
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Seaweed
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Rocks; Harbor
©David Sorcher 2015


Nova Scotia; Lunenburg; Storefront; Reflection
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Cable Ferry; LaHave River
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Frost; Seaweed
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Ferry; LaHave River ©David Sorcher 2015





Monday, March 16, 2015

This Old House

I don't really know much of the history of the old house on Fish Peddler Road. It has stood abandoned since long before i first began making my regular visits to the Nova Scotian south shore. These old derelicts have always held a certain fascination for me and i find it difficult not to snoop around them a bit and stick my lens into their windows of forgotten time.  

Nova Scotia; House; Old House; Abandoned
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; House; Old House; Abandoned
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; House; Old House; Abandoned
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; House; Old House; Abandoned
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Tree; Sunrise; Frost
©David Sorcher 2015

I actually published this shot in a previous blog, but it is the tree in the yard of this old house and has also been a repeated subject for my lens over the years so i included it again to give the house place and context. I also really like the shot, but the above excuses are as good as any for my re-post. ;-)



Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Island of Forgotten Toys

OK, not really an island, but a coastal Nova Scotian "town" known as Long Cove where the self-appointed "mayor" has a bit of a whimsical sense of landscape decoration, especially around Christmas time.

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Nova Scotia; Long Cove; Teddy Bear
©David Sorcher

Nova Scotia; Long Cove
©David Sorcher

Nova Scotia; Long Cove
©David Sorcher

Nova Scotia; Long Cove
©David Sorcher

Nova Scotia; Long Cove
©David Sorcher

Nova Scotia; Long Cove; Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree ©David Sorcher





Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Blackwater Backwater

Well, i seem to be on a bit of a black&white roll so here are a few more. Mostly shot around my in-laws' yard. I never have to wander too far in Nova Scotia to find beauty. 

Nova Scotia; Water; Pond
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Water; Leaf; Ice; Frost
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Water; Pond
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Water; Pond
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Seaweed; Ice; Frost
©David Sorcher 2015




Monday, March 2, 2015

Down to the Black & White Sea

Having spent so many years photographing the lush and richly saturated colors of the Nova Scotian coastline i find it interesting that i have lately been leaning towards a black & white treatment of the subject. Maybe it's just the time of year. It is certainly more difficult to ignore the pervasive, deeply saturated colors of this place at the height of the summer season. They douse the eye with their brilliance and permeate your retina with their illuminated insistence. This isn't to say that Nova Scotia is a colorless place in winter. Far for it indeed. But it is, perhaps, toned down to the point where form steps out a bit from behind it's gaudy dress and i can put aside my "chromist" tendencies for grayscale and structure.

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Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach
©David Sorcher 2015

Technically this is not the sea, but a barachois off Hirtle's Beach. This is a term used to describe a coastal lake that is separated from the ocean by a narrow strip or sand bar. Often at high tide this bar is breached and fresh water mixes with the salty sea. 

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Seaweed
©David Sorcher 2015

Hurtles has a greater variety of seaweeds than i have ever seen on any one beach anywhere. I don't know what this one is called, but i love the way i sometimes find it curled up into spiral formations. 

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Seaweed; Atlantic Ocean
©David Sorcher 2015

At the right times of tide and season these many varieties of ocean flora gather in large mounds along the shoreline creating breaks for crashing waves. 

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Lobster Trap
©David Sorcher 2015

The surf deposits many other gifts upon the shore. It is not uncommon to find old lobster traps washed up, especially after a good storm. This one came to rest in the grasses that divide the sea from the barachois.  

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Seaweed
©David Sorcher 2015

Sometimes this stuff reminds me of old, dried up umbilical cords discarded by the mother of the great briny blue herself.

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Fence; Drumlin Cliff
©David Sorcher 2015

I'm not sure how i feel about this new fence that went up along the edge of one of the sandy beach cliffs. I have photographed this particular cliff many times for is natural beauty, unfettered by the intrusions of man. Certainly it has added some interesting leading line to my composition, but i still must mourn the loss of the unspoiled and pristine landscape just a little. My wife tells me i may feel differently about this in a few years once the elements have added a proper weathering to the wood. She may well be correct about that.  

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Seaweed
©David Sorcher 2015

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Seaweed; Atlantic Ocean
©David Sorcher 2015

Seaweed, rocks and sand make for nice compositions of textures, form and contrast. 

Nova Scotia; Hirtle's Beach; Rocks; Seaweed; Atlantic Ocean: Surf
©David Sorcher 2015

Waves crash on mounds of seaweed piled as high as a person... active, fierce and alive in the dead of winter.