{"id":24307,"date":"2012-02-29T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=24307"},"modified":"2012-02-29T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:53:28","slug":"crowsnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/crowsnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowsnest at Horseshoe Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You might have been wondering why we sat at Horseshoe Bend for so long. Well, you’d be surprised the photographic opportunities that can come your way when you stop to smell the roses. I heard the boats before I first saw them, then I saw them over in the shadows picking up their clients who were fishing. I wondered if I sat long enough if I could get some aerial clicks of there passing. That’s just what we did, we waited and then every so often a boat would go up stream or down stream, sometimes the same instance. What I had in my mind is an old image taken of a boat with a big wake and while I like what I captured, it’s not what I remembered in that old photo. <\/p>\n

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What are the elements that work and don’t work in this image? The boat itself isn’t that really visually cool, it doesn’t look like a fast racing boat. The wake though, that is everything! I cocked the camera, framed it all up and finished the photos based on the graphic highlight in the dark green water. Then there was the bank of the river which at times worked and other times didn’t. These are what we had to work with to make the photo.<\/p>\n

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The bottom photo is my favorite. It combines all the good, ignores the bad and as an “attitude” to the direction of the boat and its wake that works the best. That hint of shore in the top right corner is what works best for me, it gives the whole photo a sense of place. It was fun to sit there, legs hanging over the edge clicking away as the boats shot by down below. It was a great adventure!<\/p>\n

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