Well the rain here in NE Ohio has been relentless fortunately I made it out to shoot last week.  I had a tough time making images as the forest lacked the clean shots I like to take.  I liked this one because of the detail and color.

When I go out to do photography I sometimes go with an idea of an image that I want to try to make.  This particular evening I saw that the weather forecast was dicey so I figured I might have a chance of getting good clouds and light over downtown Cleveland.  Fortunately the light on downtown never materialized and because of that I was watching for other things to shoot.  As the sun was setting this tug motored out to meet two incoming freighters.  The water texture and the sun glinting off the hull make this image for me.

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I got up very early two Sunday mornings ago and headed down to Furnace Run Metro Park in Richfield to shoot some daffodils.  The park’s website says that the land the daffodil trail is on was owned by the first metro parks director and he planted the first bulbs along the trail.  There are now more than 30 thousand daffodils every April along the 0.6 mile trail.  I shot this one with a very thin depth of field to showcase the great detail in the flower’s center while producing a background that looks very much like a painting.

Well after two days of snow and about 8 or so inches later, I figured I’d venture out and do some shooting.  I only had about an hour of light left after going to a great photography exhibition at the Brecksville Center for the Arts.  They are featuring 6 photographers from the Cleveland Photographic Society.

According to the National Park Service website the Everett Road Covered Bridge is a historical replica built in 1986 after high water during a spring storm lifted the original off its foundation in 1975.  This is also the only remaining covered bridge in summit county.

For this shot I used the polarizer to remove the reflections from the water in the opening in the ice and the ND filter to produce a long exposure to blur the water.  I also used a very low camera angle to make the foreground an important element in the image.  So far 2009 is off to a good start.

This is a shot from back in October after a short hike back to Blue Hen Falls. The falls were not much more than a trickle but the swirling leaves makes this shot interesting. I used the polarizer for 2 purposes, the first was to knock out some of the reflections in the water and secondly to lengthen the exposure time to get enough movement in the leaves. Click on the image above to get a larger version.

On a side note I haven’t been doing a very good job posting articles so in the next couple weeks I’m going to make an effort to post more. As always if you like something here on the site and would like a print don’t hesitate to drop me a line you can find my contact info on the main site www.williamsebastianphoto.com