Three Boats

The series that I call ”Three Boats” is, of course, thee boats tied to a mooring on the Kennebunk River in Southern Maine. When shooting anything in an uncontrolled environment; Timing is paramount. The light, the wind, and in my case, the tide, all had to corporate. From 2019-2020 I visited Kennebunkport, Maine, looking at properties for a new home. One idea kept drawing me to the bridge over the Kennebunk River. From that vantage point, I kept seeing the three fisherman rowboats tied to an orange buoy. I wanted that shot, but either the light or the tide wouldn't be right. I shot hundreds of photographs of different subjects, but the three boats would elude me, as I had a definite idea for how I wanted the shot to look. In late September of 2020, Early on the morning of September 20th, I awoke to a dense fog grey day. Because of unseasonable warm weather, a fog appeared just after dawn. I had morning light, a moving tide, and thick fog to give me the ethereal zen-like look I had been after. I shot over seventy different bracketed photographs from both sides of the river and on the bridge. Shooting with an Olympus OM-D M1 mark three mirrorless camera and an Olympus Pro 12-40 2.8  and a Lumix 35-80 2.8 lenses, I got the desired look I was after. I had recently purchased the Olympus mostly because of its eight stop image stabilization and death tight seal making it the perfect tuning fork for shooting exteriors in adverse weather and without a tripod. The Photography God’s shined down on me that day because I got exactly what had eluded me so often before.