Photo of the Month
Sunrise and Shrimp boat as seen from Hunting Island is the featured photograph for October in my 2010 Lowcountry Calendar. You can view it and my picture galleries online at www.southernlight.biz.
Everything about my venture onto Hunting Island appeared dark and ominous on this morning. I walked under a black cloud ceiling with wet sand under foot following a heavy rainfall. From the beachfront, I watched this lone shrimp boat defy the threatening skies with nets dragging while running at full steam with nets dragging. I took advantage of the setting for this silhouette image of the working ship. The bright strip of clear atmosphere above the horizon was a nice backdrop while the black cloud cover that was filling the remainder of the sky added tension and a nice frame.
The weather forecast called for clearing skies. By 9:00am not a cloud was in sight. I left the park as this early morning drama vanished into blue sky. I gave a cheer for the shrimp boat crew working the ocean waters that morning, wishing them and all local fishermen much success in an increasingly difficult marketplace.
Eric Horan
Photo tip: Photographing wildlife around the coastal waters requires careful consideration to the local tides, whose timing follows the moon. They come almost an hour later each day and with a different water depth as well. This provides important information about the environment that you will want to know while making plans to photograph whether on foot or at sea and is one of the reasons I include the tides and phases of the moon in my Lowcountry calendars. For my walk on Hunting Island, I wanted a high tide before my arrival so by the time I hit the beach I would have some sand to walk on (not the case at high tide). This way the beach would still be wet and I’d have the option of using the reflective pools of water in the foreground. For more information on my images, photo tours and travels in the lowcounty, check out my blog at www.southernlight.biz.
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