Cape Ann Images: Gloucester Schooner Festival....The Tradition Continues !

Why I created this......

Born and raised in Gloucester, Ma fishing gets in your blood. Surrounded by the sea, kids here have a boat almost as much as kids elsewhere have bicycles! As I grew older my fishing ambitions gave way to what's around me. Although I still "drop a line" every so often, my attention wanders to the majesty of the natural light that make this place so special. Never is each day the same. The subjects may be the same but the light from the sea & sky will morph the subject into a form of art. For that reason artists have been drawn to these shores for several hundred years, they followed the light painting and sketching these surroundings. What artists capture with paint on canvas, I attempt to capture with a click.....if I'm lucky!

I guess that's a sort of Fish'n!

Jay Albert

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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Gloucester Schooner Festival....The Tradition Continues !

When I got home from the schooner festivities I couldn't wait to download the images and see what I got. To my horror about 400 of the 436 images I took came out with a blemish! This year I tried something different, in years past I would use my 70mm to 300mm zoom lens about 80% of the time and use my 18mm to 55mm lens for the rest. This time I reversed that. But during the exchange of lenses it appears a piece of lint got into the camera! There was a big black squiggle to the center right of the frame. I had to spend much more time to "brush out" the blemish and I got more to go!

"Thomas E. Lannon" Captain Tom Ellis steers with his foot!