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Can you do the equivalent of "right click/view image" on your phone?

Yes. We'll, hopefully you all are seeing my images correctly. Let's try another, this is an island off of Acadia, Maine. Really hard to take a "bad" photo up there, it's a beautiful place.



Note: Cropped again on the phone, sigh.. Opening image in new tab works. As always, I was trying to capture the light, Maine summertime light is so fantastic - Soft and Pure. But compositionally, I wanted to draw your eye in a "Z" zigzag to the boats. Cropped image on the phone destroys the "Z," oh well.

my contribution for today, Taken near Helix Or. the crops were peas

a couple of shots, from the past

OK. This was supposed to be about "Marine Photos" so let's get back to water and light:


(click on preview to see full image)

Very much like this image, as you've probably guessed. Almost abstract, I had to look closely to realize it thus is an anchored boat. Do you remember if it was taken a dawn or dusk? Either way, I like how the light comes across the water in big patches.

In a way, you could say it's fitting in that the boat clearly "anchors" the scene.

Ha! Ok, on those notes, both abstract and "anchored," or at least moored:



Although lately, we've all been pretty "unmoored!"

Also, if you're viewing this on a phone, open image in a new tab. The ball is properly centered in this photo. I didn't nearly drown myself and gear swimming around the ball with my camera for nothing!

My friend has a small lake behind his house, This was a 4th of July party at the neighbors

redid the photo

Tom, I really like the "ball", and also Garry's balloon.

thank you was a surprise to see the balloon landing. Tom, nice photo, how did you get that low?, spent the evening printing out some photos to mount. ( I do my own matting and framing, including making the frames) so you have got me doing that at least. as some of these are 10 years old. but none marine.

I need ballooning neighbors, jealous! And good photo, the reflection and space does it for me.

The mooring ball I took by wading/swimming out to it. Miami, the water's warm - and shallow! I really took the photo just for a lark, didn't know what I had till I did some post-processing. Punched up the saturation, otherwise it's what I shot, no cropping. One of those blindingly bright Miami mornings...

How do you make your frames? I keep wanting to, do you use a jig or just go to work with a miter box and saw?

And, as long as inland water counts as "marine," here's the best water photo I've ever done in North Carolina, my new home state. As I wrote before, it's a retaining pond behind a rst stop on I-95, but I like it

And in B/W, love it. i have always loved a high contrast B/W, loved to print on hi gloss #5 or 6 paper. things just pop

I have different woods, i use the table saw to cut the size of the components, and put the rabbit in the back. if i am using old barn wood, i usually hide the cut edge with a smaller piece, cut the rabbit then cut the miters. have a miter joiner for frames puts the metal staples in the corners. also use a small nailer(18ga) or pin nailer(23ga) if i am joining two pieces together. I also put a spot of glue in the corners. solid wood frames i use my router to put any pattern in the frame as desired. I usually make up long pieces of the frames for stock and cut to desired size. minimal exposing of my digits to nasty spinning things. i also repurpose old picture frames (photo, print, paintings) I have a DeWalt 12 in miter saw i use to cut the miters, (one could use a smaller one) the frame joiner has a holding device that holds it at 90 deg until the nails are put in.

Matt cutter

Frame joiner

tomodda wrote:... as long as inland water counts as "marine," here's the best water photo I've ever done in North Carolina, my new home state.

Very nice. I think inland water should definitely count -- best if it is some water that you could (have) float(ed) your DS. (If you'd had it with you at the time). I would give extra points to anything photographed from the water, and additional points if single-handing and underway. But, who's counting?

Here's a simple photo of a deceptively serene lake I wish I had had a boat with me at the time to explore.