Month: September 2019

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Photography

Sunrise in Maine, United States 2019.

Sunrise in Maine 2019
Sunrise in Maine 2019

Many sunrise pictures are oversaturated to increase the visual effect. There comes a time when we forget that nature is full of subtleties and that it is not always necessary to exagerate the saturation to obtain an interesting effect.

For this photo of a sunrise in Ogunquit, Maine, I chose to show the natural colors at 5h30 AM, in August 2019. There is no violet-blue nor citrus yellow in the scenery. Nonetheless, depending on your position in front of the screen, the colours will always vary somehow.

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Photography

Sunrise in Ogunquit, Maine.

Sunrise in Ogunquit, Maine, 2019.
Sunrise in Ogunquit, Maine, 2019.

Ogunquit, Maine. It is 5h15 in the morning and in the hotel room, the thick curtains do not allow me to know what type of light is offered by the sunrise. A quick glance outside gives me the signal that my night is over. The light is worth being captured.

On the beach, there are already a few people who have arrived, either to fish, meditate, jog or take pictures. I will spend the next few hours, capturing the different nuances of light on the water and through the waves.

I will try to include a few of these photos in the coming editions of my blog.

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Photography

Waiting for opportunities in Ogunquit, United States.

A seagull flies over the beach in Ogunquit, waiting for opportunities.
A seagull flies over the beach in Ogunquit, Maine, waiting for opportunities.

This picture of a seagull has been taken from the third floor of the Norseman Hotel in Ogunquit, Maine. The aperture was reduced almost to its minimum to blur everything but the bird. Some serious cropping was needed to enlarge the seagull. I was helped by a Canon telephoto lens and the 50.6 megapixels of the Canon 5DSR full frame sensor.

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Photos of Canada

Houses and buildings of Victoria and Vancouver

Traditional house with flowers in Victoria, British Columbia.
Traditional house with flowers in Victoria, British Columbia.

The houses and buildings of Victoria and Vancouver are really stylish and deserve some attention. The nice Victoria weather allows for the rapid growth of the vegetation and the house owners generally try to have flowers in front of their property. Oak Bay and Uplands are two sectors where a visitor is sure to find very interesting houses.

A modern house in Victoria, British Columbia.
A modern house in Victoria, British Columbia.

During wintertime, the grass is green in Victoria. During summertime, it is yellow unless watered daily. The microclimate is due to the proximity of the Olympic Mountains. The air that slopes down the east side of the mountains warms up and dries, favoring a more stable weather than in the rest of Canada.

Old buildings of Vancouver.
Old buildings of Vancouver.
Condominiums in the highrise towers of Vancouver.
Condominiums in the highrise towers of Vancouver.

The picture above shows the view that an Airbnb rental can afford. In fact, it was the view from our room on a recent trip to Vancouver.