Voight Creek and the Fish Hatchery
Great skies today for landscape photos
I like taking a wide angle lens down to the local fish hatchery to test it out; it’s a complex subject with lots of Lins and angles, and if a lens is a good one, it will handle of that cleanly. Add in an interesting sky, and I’m happy.
Technical info: Shot with a Canon TS-E 24mm lens on the WRS-5000 camera. I cropped out the left edge; there is a fence there and it didn’t add anything good to the composition. As luck would have it, cropping at the edge of the fence leaves an exactly square frame.
A square frame always reminds me of film photography with the Hasselblad 903 super-wide camera, a sentimental favorite of mine. It’s nice to know I can still use that format digitally with the right lens and framing.
Here is a shot of a dead tree about a 100 yards downstream from the hatchery.
Same settings as for the shot of the hatchery, but with a bit more risk in the getting: I had to walk through and over some nasty vines, all without falling into the creek. It’s not as muddy as it looks; the color of the water comes from tannin, produced by the trees further up stream. But I have been told that cameras really don’t like to get wet, and I don’t plan to test that any time soon.
If I may editorialize, it always amazes me how one can find little gems like this to photograph on any given day. There is always something: today it was the amazing sky lending it’s talents to the photos, and the strange seasonal colors of the water in the streams. Not every idea for a shot pans out, but I love it when color/light/subject all come together.