From the course: Travel Photography: The Maine Coast

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Nothing but water review

Nothing but water review

- So while I was visiting the lighthouse at Pemaquid Point, the weather was not very good at all. I was getting battered by the wind and the rain, the waves were just pounding the shore. So while I had been focused initially on the lighthouse and then on the waves crashing into the rocks, over breakfast I realized I had never actually photographed just the water. And I thought it might be interesting and so I ventured back out into the wind and the rain and put myself right at the edge of the water, getting splashed now and again by waves that were battering the rocks, and I set up and focused my lens on just water. I made sure that there was nothing in the frame other than water, with the horizon up near the top for context. I also, in this case, had to make sure, or make an effort anyway, to try to make sure to exclude the buoys that are used to mark where lobster traps are. That can be very challenging in Maine, because near the coast, especially the north coast of Maine, there are…

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