I have sadly neglected this blog space over the past year, which really is quite a shame. It allows me to present my photography is ways far superior to other social media venues, but i have found from past experience that it is much harder to get viewers to click to an outside link to have a look at my work. I suppose people surfing Facebook don't want to break their momentum, so if presented with a link to an outside page they have a tendency to just skip it and keep scrolling. So lately i have only been posting images directly to my Facebook page. That really is too bad because, first of all, my images actually do look better on this page than they ever will on Facebook or Twitter, and secondly, this venue allows me an opportunity to present larger bodies of work in a cleaner, more precise manner. While i could drop this many photos on a Facebook post i usually don't find it to be the optimum space for this kind of volume. People seem to like single serving images that they can view quickly, click a like and then move on.
Though i will occasionally post "best of" collections of work shot over longer periods of time, a lot of the nature and landscape i post in this space is not presentations of longterm projects. What i like to do when visiting a location is to present an essay of photos that describe that place at a specific given moment or moments in time. They are portraits of a space as it exists within an hour, or number of hours of that day. Tomorrow this same landscape might well look very different, presenting a completely different mood or face. Or my own mood and inner dialog may reflect what i view differently as other aspects of my location catch my eye that may not have been evident the day before. These particular photographs could only happen on this particular day, in this specific place and time. Tomorrow will be a new experience, yesterday is past.
Here i have returned once again to one of my very favorite hikes on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Gaff Point. This place is far too diverse to ever be described in just one or two photographs. It demands a larger gallery of work to more completely tell the tale. The walk on this day had its own variables in play that helped produce this particular set of images. Everything from time of year to time of day, the weather and the people who accompanied me this day contributed to the outcome of these images. I hope you enjoy this little slice of time in this very beautiful place.
If you would like to check out some of the other faces of Gaff Point that i have photographed over the years please see the links below. One day a select edit of all these different takes might make a fine coffee table book. 😉
(please click on images for an enlarged gallery view)
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