02-19-2022, 11:58 AM
I just got back from a nice 2-mile walk to the city pier and back. I finally got the chance to try out my new ND filter. I managed to soften the water a bit and compared to the photo I took without the ND filter, it is an improvement. The water was quite choppy and was rather distracting without the ND filter. I sort of stuck on using the HDR effect, I hope that I am not overusing it.
This photo is a combination of two. The water is one taken with the ND filter, the sky was no ND filter.
This is the city pier on Anna Marie Island. They use to have a great restaurant that we use to frequent, then a hurricane wiped away the entire building and much of the pier. This is the newly rebuilt building but the city has made it very difficult (politically) for a restaurant to return. The latest is that they want to put an educational type facility for children to learn about the ocean and all of its inhabitants. It appears to be a slow process because the original plans of putting several 15,000-gallon aquariums in the facility were deemed too heavy for that pier to handle. So, back to the drawing board, it goes. And so, we continue to wait to see what will happen. In the meantime, we are missing one of our favorite restaurants.
I will join your landscape, Peter, with my seascape.
This photo is a combination of two. The water is one taken with the ND filter, the sky was no ND filter.
This is the city pier on Anna Marie Island. They use to have a great restaurant that we use to frequent, then a hurricane wiped away the entire building and much of the pier. This is the newly rebuilt building but the city has made it very difficult (politically) for a restaurant to return. The latest is that they want to put an educational type facility for children to learn about the ocean and all of its inhabitants. It appears to be a slow process because the original plans of putting several 15,000-gallon aquariums in the facility were deemed too heavy for that pier to handle. So, back to the drawing board, it goes. And so, we continue to wait to see what will happen. In the meantime, we are missing one of our favorite restaurants.
I will join your landscape, Peter, with my seascape.