On this Long Exposure Tuesday, I decided to share an image taken in early April 2012. This was an exceptionally warm day (hard to believe with the weather we’ve had so far this month) and I ended up wandering up and down the harbor’s edge hoping to shoot under and around the piers that line the water. I ended up at the Corinthian near the end of my shoot and noted the way their dock lined up with Abbot Hall in the distance.
As I got closer, I found this great old mooring somehow cemented in the rocks and decided to compose the image so that the mooring stood out in the foreground and the Corinthian dock took up the middle space while pointing toward Abbot Hall in the distance. I shot this as a 30 second exposure (the maximum without the remote trigger I had forgotten at home) which smoothed the waters in the harbor and allowed the clouds to streak in the sky. The decision to process this as a black and white was an easy one as it made the mooring stand out even more.