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Having just missed the tide coming in by 10 minutes or so, this shot was not quite the composition I was looking for. Nor was the lighting as dramatic as I desired. But this remnant of a pier long returned to the sea by time and tide, made for such an interesting image that I thought it was worth the wait to get just the shot I was looking for in my head. So seeing that I had already done an inordinate amount of walking with 2 bags of heavy camera equipment this morning, I decided I could use the break, and set up camp right here. Pulling out my tripod, I picked just the composition I wanted, then waited for the tide to come back in which I figured would be in another 3 hours or so, right around when the sun would be going down in the sky for the evening. This would transform this scene into a really nice shot.With food, my radio, and a collapsible seat all stowed in with my photo gear, I was well prepared for the wait.
Now the lighting I was looking for never materialised, and I determined that I would have to come back at a different time of year when the sun would set a bit further to the east then it was doing now. But I did get a lot of other shots from my "perch" while I waited. If any of you are curious, you can see them in my other galleries here on Smugmug. (By clicking on the keyword "New Dorp beach" you see below, Smugmug will make a nice neat temporary gallery of all the shots I took this day at the only shore of Staten Island that faces the ocean. I will be back next year to collect that sunset shot I really want.
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