LAW: 178, Which one, design decisions

 Good morning, it is a beautiful day on the Chesapeake. After we got confirmation of the Biden/Harris victory, the world took a deep breath and started to wake up from our collective nightmare of the past four years.

This photo was taken after election day, but before it was called. Do you think that the fog and mist are indicative of the confusion in the country?

From the Dock, 11.05.2020

Perhaps unsprisingly, the weather cooperated. We cast off our lines and left dock yesterday afternoon and motored out to our favorite local anchorage, which is really just a little bitty way down the river. But hey, we're anchored out and enjoying the bliss of solitude.

Okay, so it is not always as easy as that. The river has silted in quite a bit in the last couple of months, it took us four times before we were happy with our location. Which does mean that i got to drop and raise the anchor four times. Gotta love the exercise. We probably had to anchor about 150' further out than normal.

But aside from that i really want to focus on what goes into design decisions from a photographic point of view.

The color this morning at dawn was incredible. I grabbed my phone and took a couple of shots, but realized immediately that i wasn't satisfied with the color. So out came my trusty Canon Rebel T3 SLR digital. I got some stunning photos. As always i threw away more images than i kept. Three cheers for digital cameras.

I really like both of these images, but for different reasons.

Middle River Sunrise #1, 11.08.20

Middle River Sunrise #2, 11.08.202

#1, is the first image i took, i was focusing mostly on the reflection of the trees on the water. I think #2, is the better photograph, even though i lost the tree reflections. Why, well, better depth of field, and compositionally #2, is far more interesting to me, because the mast reflection isn't smack dab in the middle of the image. What do you think?

Planning another beautiful day on the river.

More later,

gail