Mediterranean Sunrise, Reprise

I have said it before and it is worth saying again: Just because you have been somewhere and have already spent some time making images there doesn’t mean you don’t ever need to go back to that place.

I remember someone saying this in the context of a particular National Park: “I have been there, done that, don’t really need to go back.”

The problem is this: no moment is ever the same. The season, the weather and the light are always different. The wind and the clouds are different. Even the actual physical geography of a place can change. Perhaps most importantly, you have changed. You (hopefully) will have grown both technically and artistically as a photographer and what you do at a particular site the second time around will likely be very different.

As but a small example, I returned the following day to the area that was the subject of yesterday’s blog post. The wind and clouds and the lighting were all quite different. With more wind, the sea was much more active and that gave me some additional long exposure options.

I was different, too, (in a minor way, I guess) because I remembered to double check my ISO and shoot at 100 rather than 800 as I had done on the previous occasion–a stupid mistake that definitely affects your ability to get longer exposures as well as affecting dynamic range and electronic noise. (And, yes, I think I was “seeing” better, too.)

So, here are three examples of what I came up with on a second visit to the same place (I like this work much better than the images from the first time around)…