The Pelagic Lens

A Blog about Photography, Sailing and the Combination of the Two.

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Boat Dogs Rule. They’re always on watch!

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An Image in the Making – Breaking Down A Workflow Process

A behind the scenes look at how the very personal and subjective Photo Image Post Process is approached and practiced by one Photographer.

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An Image in the Making - Breaking Down A Workflow Process

How do You Post Process an Image? Or do You? Read to see how this photographer approaches this very subjective subject.

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Thinking Out Loud About the Photographic Image Post-Processing Process

Thinking Out Loud About the Photographic Image Post Processing Mindset. What Path Defines Your Approach to an Image Processing Workflow?

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He'll sit for hours to spot a Dolphin.

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Confessions of a Closet YouTube Sailing Channel Addict

YouTube Sailing Videos.: You either Love'em or Hate'em.

YouTube Sailing Videos: You either Love’em or Hate’em. To me, YouTube is perhaps one of the biggest marvels (so far) of the early 21st Century. Nowhere on this Earth can you learn so much, in so little time, about how to do most anything you’d like to do, or learn about how to do, with as little effort, as it takes to just the enter a short search query and the click of a button. Whether you…

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Boys and Their Toys

Boys and Their Toys

Just Another Way We Learn The Gorgeous 23.8m (78’1″) Custom built Buddy Davis Motor Yacht “Plastic Toy” takes at break at Jarrett Bay Industrial Park along the ICW in Core Creek, NC I’ve always had a love for boats. I think it started when my best buddy in Grade school and myself dragged an old, rotted and wooden skiff out of the woods near the banks of the Tar River in Greenville. Even though…

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A Case For Black & White

A Case For Black & White

“Don’t shoot what it looks like.. Shoot what it feels like” David Alan Harvey “Hierarchy“ Years ago, when I used to teach Photography and some associated courses at Virginia-Western’s Daleville, Virginia campus, four out of the five courses I designed for the curriculum were of technical nature. Going in, that was the part of photography that most newcomers to the Craft (the students) felt it…

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Cruising and Living On The Water

Cruising and Living On The Water

Slip, Hook, Ball or Anchor.. It’s Your Choice

Cape Lookout, NC – May, 2020

Our discussion of Living and/or Cruising Aboard continues this week with a look at some of the various alternatives that are available to Cruising and Liveaboard Boaters .

This is only a general discussion as all of the variables are just too numerous to mention here.

Last post we discussed a lot of the…

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An Eye Opening

A tug pushing a tow on the ICW

Knowledge is something no one can ever take from you.

Long Ago Wisdom from My Dad

Recently, I had the opportunity to experience the US Coast Guard Captain’s Licensing Course at Carteret Community College’s OUPV Program in Morehead City, NC.

OUPV is the Coast Guard’s acronym for Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels. It is also widely known as a “6 Pack”…

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Sunrises or Sunsets?

SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT NATURAL LIGHT

October Sunrise – Somewhere at Sea

Nowhere better but at Sea can the difference between photographing a Sunrise and a Sunset be realized. Especially in my case because a boat makes for a poor platform to rest a tripod…a necessity when using slower shutter speeds. Using a higher shutter speed, while reccomended for a longer lens (or “zoom”) for…

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Isolation