Gone Fishin'

Yeah, the weather was a bit rough. Our tiny craft was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, our lunch would have been tossed.

It rained, it snowed, it was June in Canada.

But, the walleye tasted sweet!

One of the interesting challenges, for me, is travel assignments. We go out to a location that we have only seen in pictures that someone else has snapped, with a shot list in hand, cell phone in the other hand and camera around our neck.

This is where the shot list is just the sheet music and we are the musicians and conductors about to create the performance. Follow the plan but be ready for the happy accidents/fate/karma/opportunities that come up.

And, don't tuck your head so far into your rain coat that you miss the beauty around you.

This image was created as we came back from a 20 mile jaunt into the Dozios Resevoir in Canada. It had rained all morning, cleared up for the shore lunch and then threatened the whole way back.

And, yes, it snowed that night!

Sunsets

What is it about sunsets? The photographer side of me says, "Seen it before. Everyone has shot it already. Why bother? Find something new already!"

But, my inner child says "Ooooo, look at the pretty colors! With fish hooks, too!"

The interesting part about this image is that you could imagine a cold evening, or a hot humid one. You can hear the loons making their last calls before night fall or you can hear the sound of black flies, pummeling your bug nets, looking for a way to bleed you out right there on the boat. Or, as my wife says, you can think of a romantic evening some place else where the sky looked just like that before a warm, melty kiss.

Your sky, your message, your story.