This espigón, or pier, just west of the main Port Olímpic area in Barcelona is another of my frequented sunrise spots. You would think that once you “shoot an area” you are done with it–not a few landscape photographers are under this mistaken impression.
Instead, I am always surprised by something new each time I visit a familiar site.
Yes, it’s the same pier, the same coastline, the same beaches, the same city and buildings at my back, but everything is still different.
Here is a short list of the things that always change–and therefore why it isn’t a bad idea to go back to places you have “already done”:
–the weather in general
–the clouds
–the Moon’s phase
–the constellations and planets before sunrise
–the wave action and the sea’s surface
–the human action on the pier
–unusual ships coming and going
–my particular mood
–my way of seeing and what I pay attention to
–the current state of my technical expertise
–the camera and lenses I might be carrying
–and, of course, the light–it is always different!
More images from this morning:
Some disco colors at twilight…
The Moon and Venus in Scorpio, and an airliner on final approach to the Barcelona airport…
Pre-dawn is a good time to get those 30-second exposures, neutral density filter not required…
A moving ship on the far horizon is dragging out a light trail just right of the rightmost marker…
It’s hard to tell on this tiny online version, but the brighter white graffiti on the far pier says “Zombie”, thus the title…
Another for the stock photo library…
