Re-shooting old photos
Sunday 13 September 2020
As you no doubt realized, I like taking photos! However, if you take into account all of our travels on Cotinga, we’ve been living aboard for a long time now and it can be quite challenging to think of shots that might be new and different from what I’ve taken before. This is particularly true when we spend extended periods of time without going ashore – the boat hasn’t changed that much over the past 8 years! So sometimes I end up re-taking shots that I have done in the past and seeing if I can do them better. Today was a case in point. We needed to leave Duxbury fairly early so that we could make the Cape Cod Canal with favorable currents. But I also knew, based on a photo that I took back in 2012, that the Duxbury lighthouse is quite photogenic against the sunrise. (I hadn’t appreciated that it was actually the very same day 8 years ago!) Photography is a lot about being in the right place at the right time and on that previous occasion it was purely by chance that we came around Duxbury lighthouse backlit by the rising sun. Today we planned our timing deliberately to try and be behind the lighthouse just as the sun was coming up. We were up at 5am in the dark and on the move at 6am. Our timing worked out pretty much as intended but in truth we might have gotten better light if we’d been there ten minutes earlier. With Gloria at the helm I was able concentrate on the photography and shoot several shots of the lighthouse looking into the sunrise and also some looking back. If you go back to the blog entry “To Windward” for Sept 13 2012 you can take a look at the photos I took them and decide yourself whether I did better this time. Personally, I think not … !
The rest of the day went really well. We motor-sailed into the light south-east wind for a couple of hours to reach the Cape Cod Canal, passed through it in less than an hour, then had another great sail on a beam reach most of the way to Cuttyhunk before the wind petered out. Tonight we are again on a mooring in the inner haobor. It’s super comfortable and Gloria made meatloaf for dinner that was delicious. I also made a loaf of Irish Soda bread that we have not yet tried. When it gets dark we are hoping to watch the Patriots-Dolphins season opener on “NFL GamePass” if the cell phone reception is up to it.
Mike
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That first shot from 2012 is hard to match...
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