On Wednesday January 30th, a strong wind and some great clouds developed in the afternoon and I decided to head out to Chandler Hovey park for some long exposure images. I started off trying to capture the setting sun but the combination of long exposure and wind gusts wasn’t working so well. I took shelter behind one of the rocks near the edge of the harbor and saw this scene before me.
I decided to use the bench as a foreground element and allow the exposure time of 129 seconds to blur the water and add some movement to the clouds. The end result is a sensation of standing still at the edge of a world in movement. The dedication on the bench only adds to that feeling. It’s a bit hard to make out on the web version but it reads ‘In Memory of Barbara & Llewellyn White’. If anyone knows who they were, please let me know in the comments.