I dont often post two days in a row since I dont get enough time to spend at photos and produce some every day but we went for a drive yesterday out to Portugal Cove and the Bell Island ferry port and I brought my camera.
After some fish and chips I had the time to take some long exposure shots. I had been converting these into B&W lately but this one looked much nicer in colour this morning that I decided it’d be better to leave it in colour.
The first few photos I’ve posted from Newfoundland have been foggy and misty shots. In reality that was just one weekend and our first month here have been dominated by sunshine and high temperatures. St John’s itself is a beautiful colourful city so I spent a day down town taking photos of the row houses, some of which I’ll post over the next few weeks.
This photo was taking from The Rooms a museum which sits high above the city and while some of my friends hate it’s modern design towering over the city but it does have a viewing platform that gives a great view of the city. In the distance is Signal Hill and The Narrows entrance to the harbour, on the hill is Cabot Tower. If you look at the city itself you’ll see some of the colourful downtown row houses that are a huge tourist attraction.
Last year good friends of ours (Karen and Damian) got married and asked myself, Lauren and Shauneen Armstrong to take the photos. I blogged about it at the time but Karen now writes a column about planning a wedding for ramp.ie and this week she discussed how to pick a photographer and what to do if you want a friend to take the photos. She was very complimentary about the work we did and I decided to leave a rather long comment discussing it from our point of view and why taking photos at a friends wedding is something the photographer needs to take very seriously. Unfortunately the txt formatting got all messed up so I decided I’ll post the comment as an actual blog post here:
Here is another photo from the Burin trip. this one from close to the house in which we were staying. A feature of Newfoundland communities seems to be these old rickety looking docks. They look as if they have been built decades ago for a once off use but somehow they stayed standing so people keep using them. Far braver people than I.
Here’s another photo from our trip to Burin, I have several so I’ll be posting them here over the next while. I could do it all in one burst but that would leave me nothing to post later on 🙂
This one is from our Sunday breakfast. A group of us headed out to a nearby cafe and they had a deck with a beautiful view out over the bay. The three boats tied up outside were what originally caught my eye and with the church on the hill in the background I liked this shot.
I’ve been quiet here lately but I’ve been in the middle of a move to Newfoundland in Canada so I think I’ve got a good excuse this time. My wife is from St John’s and we decided to give life in her home town a go for a few years anyway. We want to build a life here but if things don’t work out we know we could return to Ireland.
We are just about set up here now, at least in our temporary place until we get jobs and can get a house of our own. We still need to get a car as well but that can wait for the moment.
At the weekend we rented a car and went with some friends out to Burin which is 4 hours away from St John’s. It was a foggy weekend so that gave me the opportunity to try out some long exposure shots. Newfoundlanders seem to hate the fog but it’s still new to me so I think it could add real atmosphere to photos. I still need to practice and learn but I do like this style of photography so I’m going to give it some time and try to take more photos around the province.
(Photo Copyright Declan Flynn 2012)
Wedding photography is one of the things lots of people with an interest in photography think they can do but they don’t fully realize how much work, skill and experience is involved. I don’t mean to sound like a photo snob but having done it I can say there are several things to think carefully about:
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