The Winter without snow continues so I have returned to the archives for another snow-covered scene.  I was exploring Fort Sewall almost two years ago to the day when I noted the viewing scopes available for use.  I had my longest lens on the camera as I had planned to shoot close-ups of the lighthouse.  When I saw the word ‘focus’ imprinted on the scope, I came up with a more interesting shot.

One thing a long zoom lens offers is the effect of compressing a landscape.  Distant objects appear larger and closer to the foreground elements.  Also, the long lens tends to do a great job at blurring backgrounds.  I focused (pardon the pun) on the scope and intentionally let the rest of the image blur just enough so that it was recognizable but didn’t steal the viewer’s eye from the center of the image.