Sometimes I just can’t resist….

If you ask me which kind of photography I hardly ever do I think my answer will be architecture and landscaping.
Don’t get me wrong, I love those shots but somehow I never do it myself. The main reason is that I never really see a great landscape in my images, but sometimes everything clicks (well at least for me).

During our stay in Boston Brendan thought it would be a good idea to show us Maine and Mount Washington, well our luck ran out that day, but after all made something special of the day. First we would go to a light house in Maine which would be awesome to shoot…. during our trip it already promised to be a problematic day, there was a lot smaller rain showers and the closer we got to Maine the more we saw a really dense fog, I was imagining a lighthouse shot with a nice blue sky and wonderful light, well it turned out differently, however to be honest I love the final result, and in this case maybe it was even better than a blue sky, although I would have loved to get that shot.

After Maine it was time for a wonderful hotel with a stunning view of the mountains behind it……

 

Well that was the idea.
After a 2 hour drive we arrived at a sign “Road closed” according to Brendan this was not 10 minutes from the hotel and we decided to see how far we could go, and because a car in front of us also drove past the sign we thought “let’s go”, now imaging our happiness when we realized we were not more than 3 minutes from the hotel… we were gonna make it…. well not really, the final bridge before the hotel (we could almost smell the coffee from the hotel) was closed…. and there was no way around it. So we drove 2 hours for…. well nothing. We tried to get some shots in the area but somehow never really worked for me and I was already ready to give up and see the day as a total waste (I did not yet see my lighthouse shot). Because we took a weird detour we drove back a different route than Brendan normally drove and suddenly I saw a nice lake and shouted, STOP!!!! I have to shoot this one.

You know the feeling when everything falls into place ?
Well this was my moment.
I hardly shoot landscapes that I find worth the trouble of posting but somehow the fog and low contrast in this scene worked really well for me. Probably the real landscape photographers will have loads of things that could have been better 🙂 but I post them anyway because for me I think these are some of the best landscapes I ever shot.

Maybe the moral of this story is that you just have to shoot with what nature gives you. Some people might have just packed up and left and not shoot anything, for me that is not done, I will always try and make the best of it…. and in this case I was really excited when I saw the images coming in on my laptop. A total wasted day turned out to give me some of my best nature shots in a long time….. maybe I will try to do some more nature…. hummmmm 🙂

 

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