Marshall Point Lighthouse – Port Clyde, Maine
Marshall Point Lighthouse, Maine, originally uploaded by briburt (Brian Burt Photo). When we took a mini-vacation up to the Maine coast a couple of months ago, I made a point to seek out as many lighthouses as I could to photograph. This one is Marshall Point Lighthouse near Port Clyde, Maine, and is quite interesting [...]
Pemaquid Point Light Station – Bristol, Maine
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse – Bristol, Maine, originally uploaded by briburt (Brian Burt Photo). Took a needed break from the daily grind and headed up to the mid-coast of Maine with my family last weekend and decided it was time to check out some of the lighthouses that dot that part of the New England coast. [...]
Summer’s Day on Cape Cod
Summer’s Day on Cape Cod, originally uploaded by briburt (Brian Burt Photo). OK. I was up before dawn this morning, photographing the sunrise, and it was 10 degrees Fahrenheit. So what did I do when I got home? Started processing photos of Cape Cod from last summer. Makes sense, I suppose. This is one of [...]
Boston Skyline in the Blue Hour
Boston Skyline in the Blue Hour, originally uploaded by briburt. This a shot of the Boston skyline taken from one of the best locations for skyline photography in Boston: the Boston Harborwalk near Moakley Courthouse. I just love the changing light during the blue hour, as the sky deepens in its shades of blue and [...]
Approaching Storm
Approaching Storm, originally uploaded by briburt. This is a shot I got while wandering around the harbor on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, when we were on vacation there last week. A storm front was moving in fast, and I was afraid that we were going to get rained on, but as it turns out, [...]
Rowes Wharf and Custom House Tower at Dusk, Boston
Rowes Wharf and Custom House Tower at Dusk, Boston, originally uploaded by briburt. This is a shot of the Boston Financial District skyline taken on the Boston Harborwalk near Moakley Courthouse. The clock tower in the center-right of the composition is the Custom House Tower. The tower has been through various iterations, but now houses [...]
Kayak Rentals
Kayak Rentals, originally uploaded by briburt (Brian Burt Photo). Rockport, Massachusetts
Inner Harbor at Sunset – Gloucester, Massachusetts
Inner Harbor at Sunset – Gloucester, Massachusetts, originally uploaded by briburt (Brian Burt Photo). Went out to Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann last weekend and headed straight for the water. It is one of the great fishing ports on the Eastern seaboard of North America. Found the Inner Harbor area and managed to get some [...]
Sunlight and Clouds on Beach 4
Sunlight and Clouds on Beach 4, originally uploaded by briburt. Now that I’m out here in New England, I thought it might be time to revisit some shots I took when we were out on the Pacific Coast last fall. Going through my Lightroom library revealed a number of shots with potential, and this was [...]
3 Fishing Trawlers
3 Fishing Trawlers, originally uploaded by briburt. Fisherman’s Terminal, Seattle And, yes, that gray sky is probably here to stay, more or less permanently, until next July. The splashes of color from these fishing boats, though, can help make up for all of the gray and rain of the coming months.
Canal with Drawbridge
Canal with Drawbridge, originally uploaded by briburt. This is the canal leading into Seattle’s Hiram M. Chittendon Locks, connecting Puget Sound (salt water) with Lake Union and Lake Washington (both fresh water) via a ship canal. I can bike here in about 10 minutes from my house, so I spent a lot of time down [...]
East Waterway, Port of Seattle
East Waterway, Port of Seattle Originally uploaded by briburt A wider, panoramic shot of the East Waterway of the Port of Seattle. You can see a tugboat and two big container ships. The interesting about the container ships is that you can’t say whether or not they are loading or unloading because they load and [...]
The Freighter “Manoa,” Port of Seattle
The Freighter “Manoa,” Port of Seattle Originally uploaded by briburt Rode my bike down through downtown to West Seattle last weekend, and stopped at a little fishing pier by the port to take a few shots. This is one of them. I also got to wondering about the people fishing there: a) do they ever [...]
Freighter Anchored in Elliott Bay, Seattle
Freighter Anchored in Elliot Bay, Seattle Originally uploaded by briburt I’ve been biking by these freighters a lot lately and wanted to catch the sort of stillness they emanate as they sit anchored in Elliott Bay. Again, I processed this as HDR and then used a mild “Orton” effect in Photoshop to create that kind [...]
Dreamscape, Ruby Beach
Dreamscape, Ruby Beach Originally uploaded by briburt Well, this one now seems to be gaining some popularity out on Flickr. When I took it, I didn’t think the light was right, but thanks to some (subtle) HDR processing, I managed to bring the light out of the foreground and get the clouds and mist just [...]
At the Grain Terminal (2)
At the Grain Terminal (2) Originally uploaded by briburt OK. I admit it. I had a lot of fun doing this one. When I bicycle to work along Elliott Bay in Seattle, I go through Myrtle Edwards Park on the bike path and pass the grain terminal, where there is invariably a grain ship from [...]
Seattle Skyline at Night
Seattle Skyline at Night Originally uploaded by briburt And one more from my little twilight photo shoot on the Water Taxi pier in West Seattle. This one is of course looking the other way than the previous two shots I posted. I iniitially processed this from 3 exposures as HDR, but mostly just to get [...]
West Seattle Fishing Pier at Dusk
West Seattle Fishing Pier at Dusk Originally uploaded by briburt OK. I had to post this one to my blog as well. It’s the result of some serious digging into Photomatix Pro for the HDR creation and tonemapping and then Lightroom for final processing. I am simply amazed at what these software tools can do [...]
Fishermen at the Water Taxi Pier, West Seattle
Fishermen at the Water Taxi Pier, West Seattle Originally uploaded by briburt Well. I had quite a time a week ago Friday hanging out on the fishing pier where the West Seattle water taxi comes in from downtown. I had intended on getting only some twilight skyline shots, but the fishermen and the water taxi [...]
Sunset Walk on Kalaloch Beach
Sunset Walk on Kalaloch Beach Originally uploaded by briburt Had a lot of good light out at Kalaloch on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s quite a dramatic place no matter what the weather, and I tried to capture this feeling in all of the photos I took on Kalaloch Beach, Beach 4, and Ruby Beach. This [...]
Large Seastacks at Ruby Beach
Large Seastacks at Ruby Beach, originally uploaded by briburt (Brian Burt Photo). Seastacks on Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park on the Pacific Coast in Washington.
Ruby Beach Seastacks
Ruby Beach Seastacks Originally uploaded by briburt This is probably my favorite photo from my latest foray into high-dynamic range (HDR) photography. Taken on the rough and wild Washington coast in Olympic National Park at Ruby Beach, I think it captures that sort of other-worldly, almost prehistoric feel to the place. When you are here [...]
Seattle skyline, with cloud
Seattle skyline, with cloud Originally uploaded by briburt Just a recent photo I took + a little editing in PhotoShop = not a bad picture at all. (Taken from the balcony of a friend’s house in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle). Even though I didn’t specifically process it as an HDR shot, it has [...]
North Sea from Bamburgh Castle
North Sea from Bamburgh Castle Originally uploaded by briburt I wish I could achieve the simplicity of this composition more often. The funny thing about this shot was that it was taken as more of a snapshot in just a moment of time. I didn’t think about composing it first. I just ducked my head [...]