Blue In The Phase

The Sun Gets Its Come-Uppance

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

This shot was taken at Algonquin National Park in Muskoka, Canada. I had driven down, pre-dawn, from Huntsville, taking good care not to run the rental car into an errant moose. I stopped for some great shots at Oxtongue Lake and Tea Lake before pulling in at Smoke Creek. I shot about fifty frames here, using a Canon EOS 3000 and a Pentax Optio, but this picture would have been one of the ten best results from the morning. Interestingly enough, I always tell amateur photographers to look away from the ``obvious'' shot, because you never know what you'll capture. And a few moments after I shot this frame, I turned my lens ninety degrees to the right for a great result. If you want to see that shot, just go to Blue Riband.

Click here: Canon EOS 3000, Kodak 100 ASA film, Shutter 1/1000, F2.2

Blue Riband

All Silent On The Boardwalk

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

Algonquin National Park in Canada has so many facets of breathtaking beauty that it’s hard to work out where to go first. I was photographing the rising sun on a cool September morning when I looked away, ninety degrees to the right. Following my own theory that the most arresting images are often on a different compass-point to where we concentrate our efforts, I ``saw’’ this shot. This was taken with a little three-megapixel Pentax Optio. I did not use a filter, nor did I tinker with the image later. This is just a low-resolution version, but on the high-res original, you can see that the only non-blue touch is the red-and-white float in the water near the shimmering boardwalk.