I'm currently working on doing an entire lighthouse series in this style that I'm calling The Long Watch. There are several others in my Fstoppers portfolio if you are interested. I haven't been able to take any new shots of the NC lighthouses but I have plenty of older photos that I am revisiting to edit in this kind of style.
When/Where: This photo was captured during the afternoon/twilight show on Friday August 7, 2026 at the Abbotsford International Airshow. I was positioned in the Photo Pit.
A couple months ago I picked up a RF 100mm f/2.8 Macro L and I am putting it through it's paces to see what I can come up with.
When/Where: This was captured at the Abbotsford International Airshow on the Saturday from the Photo Pit. The MBB Bo 105 was doing a loop as part of its airshow routine.
Sometimes a bit of luck is all you need.
When/Where: On August 7, 2026 at the Abbotsford International Airshow during the Friday afternoon/evening Twilight Show.
I was recently back in the woods trying to take some wildlife photos. Sadly, I barely came across any birds that day and whenever I did, they were gone before I could even focus on them.
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Hi Kyle! I don't know if it's just the perspective of your extreme wide angle lens, but this image looks unsettling to me, as the lighthouse looks far away, while it looks as if it's falling backwards as we are looking up at its top at a very steep angle.
Were the clouds in the original? The whole thing looks to me a bit cartoonish, or cut-&-paste - which of course is a perfectly legitmate artistic vision, but would seem to be a departure from, say, your recent dreamlike surreal images, or indeed your work generally as I recall. I don't feel as if I can enter this curious space.
Hey Chris. I originally fixed the perspective but the lighthouse looked weird to me so I ended up just leaving it. The clouds were not in the original. I wanted to do something different with this one. All the others have been some sort of long exposure.
I still think it looks kind of dreamlike. Maybe not as surreal. It's just different from the other ones I have done. I think that's what I like about it.