Sometimes a photograph is not a "complete" picture. I mean, it is a picture of something, but I want my photographs to be something more than just a snapshot. In college one of the my great teachers would refer to some pictures as "fragments." That was a great term. A fragment has parts of a photograph, but may not be complex enough or interesting enough, or may need some other element in it to make it complete. So I think that this is not quite a complete photograph. If I had a longer lens with me I could have zoomed in a lot and made an interesting composition of just part of the center of the photograph. I am not completely clear, other than to say that I needed a blog post and here it is and it is not one of my better photographs.
I don't ever remember seeing Rowing Shells on Hempstead Harbor so, for me, this is an interesting and unexpected scene. I understand your comments about this photo being a bit disappointing but less than optimum light and time of the day put you at a tremendous disadvantage. Maybe a long zoom lens fixed on the coxswain barking cadence to the oarsmen could have saved the day? Anyway, nice try; I am always a sucker for boat shots!
ReplyDeleteI like this photo of the rowing shells, especially after reading The Boys in the Boat. Never realized how difficult it is for the oarsmen to get in sync. Betsey
ReplyDeletePS: The Boys In The Boat movie was a great flick!
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