What attracted my attention to this scene from Lunenburg Harbour was mostly the graphical nature of the coloured hulls of the two ships docked almost side by side. However, the pilot’s ladder was the additional graphical element that “made” the scene for me, both compositionally and from an interest standpoint.…
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Rissers Beach and Green Bay are two of the many beautiful locations that are relatively close to where we live. The benefit of this proximity is that I can visit again and again, in different light and different weather. The danger is that one becomes so familiar with every rock…
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Burntcoat Head, located in the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy, boasts the highest recorded tides in the world. The average tide is 47.5 feet, with an extreme range of 53.6 feet. At low tide, one can venture out on the ocean floor, and around what becomes an island…
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Moose Harbour is typical of the many small wharves that dot the shoreline of Nova Scotia. They range from individual docks to collections of 6 or 8 fishing vessels (mostly Cape Islanders). There are also a few massive wharves, such as Dennis Point in Pubnico, or the wharf at Digby,…
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Here and there along the coast of Nova Scotia one discovers the remnants of boats that have been retired from service for one reason or another. Sometimes they have been replaced by a newer, more seaworthy vessel. Sometimes it’s because the boat and the owner have had enough of the…
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I first saw Alfred Stieglitz’s “Equivalents” in the early 1970’s and they have stuck with me ever since. Taken between 1925 and 1934, Stieglitz’s B&W images of clouds were among the first photographs intended to free the subject from literal interpretation. Many thousands of photographers have experimented with cloud pictures…
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In Greek mythology, Psamathe (or Psamanthe in some translations of Ovid) was the goddess of sand beaches. I hope she wouldn’t mind lending her name to title this abstract image. The original shot (mirrored here) was taken at Hawk Beach on Cape Sable Island near the “drowned forest”. In several…
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The Theresa E. Connor, here still wearing her winter protective shroud, is Canada’s oldest remaining saltbank schooner. Built in 1938 in Lunenburg, the Connor fished the Grand Banks as a dory and trawl-line schooner for 25 years. She retired home in the spring of 1963 after her captain was no…
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The above image was taken at the small dock up the LaHave river here in Bridgewater, where I live. The local photo club (of which I am a member) had a field trip to discover what could be found without traveling far from home. The excursion was well attended, and…
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Summerville Beach and Provincial Park is one of a number of sandy beaches located on the south shore of Nova Scotia. On this day in late autumn, in the driving wind and rain, my wife and I were the only ones there. While the beach and waves are the attraction…
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Lunenburg – home to the Bluenose II, the Theresa E. Conner and Picton Castle, is a natural stop on the Tall Ships tour. In 2012, festivities also included some fantastic performance art by one ship’s crew member. Later that same year, we watched as the crew of the Picton Castle…
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On a small, rocky beach at one Nova Scotia’s many small fishing communities, my wife and I came across this scene – hundreds of scallop shells together. They looked like cast-off dinner plates. And, perhaps, that’s what had been happening here – years of locals bringing home some scallops, shucking them right…
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The south shore of Nova Scotia is predominantly rocky. In sheltered coves, one finds fishing communities and wharves. And, here and there, beautiful, sandy beaches appear. The weather here takes its toll upon the landscape – the salt air and drying sun, and the high winds and waves during storms. You…
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Even though we didn’t have a lot of snow this winter, we did see four nor’easter storms. Fortunately, Nova Scotia wasn’t hit as hard as the eastern seaboard of the US. Nevertheless, a nor’easter often brings fierce winds, downing trees and power lines, and the ocean storm surge can be…
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