ku # 1175 ~ boat+dog / flat out dumb luck
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 05:00PM ;)
Dog on boat ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenFor 6 days during our stay on Blue Mountain Lake, I attempted, unsuccessfully, to make a picture of this dog on a boat. The boat+dog went by our cottage 3-4 times a day on no particular schedule so it was impossible to predict their appearance and therefore be prepared to make a picture. Each time they appeared over the first 6 days, they were either too far out of camera range (for the lens mounted on the camera) or I didn't have a camera at hand and the few pictures I attempted just didn't have it.
However, on the very last morning of our stay, as I was out early picturing another great sunrise (taking advantage of the light, so to speak), the boat+dog came around the point positioned exactly the right distance for my camera/lens set up. Boat+dog appeared so suddenly and unexpectedly that I was fortunate the camera was set for the proper exposure, the light couldn't have been better and the dog was in the same position - although I never saw him in any other position or even move, for that matter - because I only got one shot at it. Literally, one single click of the shutter.
Reader Comments (4)
We make our own luck.
Real nice light Mark, worth the effort.
Lucky shot? I don't think so. A decisive moment shot if anything.
The sort of view which give definitively the envy to go in the U.S, just to be there... "On the golden pond"...
Thank You
Kind regards
Nicolas
Paris, France