Earlier this month, I flew across Canada from Vancouver, British Columbia to Fredericton, New Brunswick for the total solar eclipse. While I was there, I decided to visit Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park to see the Bay of Fundy for the first time in my life, only to discover that it was closed for the season :( While I didn’t get to explore much, I did manage to photograph some of the sea stacks under the night sky. The illumination on the rocks is from a nearby street lamp.

Camera: Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark III Lens: Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40 f/2.8 at 12mm Exposure: f/2.8 • 20s • ISO 2500 Edited with Adobe Lightroom

Nikkor 18-140. ISO100 - 18mm - f22 - 8 sec with ND1000 filter

Window To Tomorrow

Nestled in nature, it's easy to see why the Hog Farm hippie commune would have moved to this actual hog farm on top of a mountain in the 1960s. Founded by peace activist Wavy Gravy, the Hog Farm is perhaps best known for their involvement at Woodstock. Now abandoned, it was ultimately decimated by a catastrophic wildfire. This was a day for a lot of walking. Earlier that day, I had walked three miles for my usual exercise. Then in the evening, I made the 1.3-mile night hike up to the steep mountain trail. I probably walked for about two miles while photographing. Then the hike back down, where my knees began feeling the weight of the camera bag and the day's events. To create this night photo, I set the camera on a tripod. I opened the camera shutter for a long time. While the shutter was open, I walked around with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light capable of producing different colors, and illuminated the building with warm white and red light. During the exposure, all the light I shined on the subject was cumulative. This process is called "light painting". Why? Because one uses the flashlight as a paint brush, "brushing" on light, not paint. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than AI-generated images.

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(Plate 1825) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. March 2024.