A Few Days in May

The end of May was a pretty busy time. Between enjoying the Connecticut Wine Trail with my wife and our friends, visiting the lake on Memorial Day, our weekends were pretty full. I got a bunch of great shots, but I wanted to share a select few that summarize the last few days of the month.

Grape fields at the Winery

Enjoying the fresh wine

Lake on Memorial Day

Geese at the Flats

Month in Review: Best of May 2013

May was a pretty busy month for me. Starting this blog/gallery was one of the coolest thing’s I’ve done, and I’ve loved every minute of it. As a retrospective of sorts, here is a gallery of my favorite photos from the posts to date. Also, if you like my work, please like M. Diamond Photography on Facebook!

Filet Mignon and Asparagus

Soft Water

Dogfish Head Sixty-One

Stone Beer Reflection

Cape Cod Beer Steel Art

Seagull Steal

Photographer and Woman

Perfect on a hot day

Stone Brewing Beer Haul

So Drinkable, It’s Scary.

I hope you enjoy my photos! There’s plenty more to come.

Sunset at Paine’s Creek Beach

Ever since I’ve been going to the cape with my wife, we always stop at Paine’s Creek to catch the sunset at least once. This time, there was another photographer there taking pictures of his friend. It was a great opportunity to not only catch some shots of the sunset, but also some silhouettes of them against the sun.

Brewster Herring Run

There is a phenomenon that occurs each year around April/May across eastern Massachusetts. It’s called the Herring Run. I had never heard of it, but after a bit of research we decided that it would make a good opportunity to take some action shots. We headed over to the “Stony Brook Grist Mill” in Brewster. Of course, I was also excited to see the fish because I had never seen this before. I was pleasantly surprised.

I was expecting fish to be flopping out of the water and jumping from step to step. It wasn’t exactly like that. The fish actually “rev up” underwater and swim up the stream of water. It was really hard to capture because it wasn’t predictable and it happened in a fraction of a second.

But then, something crazy happened. When we arrived, there was only one or two seagulls hanging around and nothing really exciting was happening. But all at once, they must have communicated to each other, because about 20-30 seagulls showed up and started chowing down on the herring.

A slow shutter equals soft water

I recently discovered, not too far from where I live, a small park alongside a brook going under a bridge. I thought this would be a great opportunity to experiment with a technique called “long exposure” or a slow shutter. It requires the use of a tripod, but if you can get the shutter speed around 1/5 without overexposing the shot, you’ll get great results like this. I’ve ordered a neutral density filter to allow me to capture even longer exposure times, and I look forward to using it.

Here is approximately the same shot using 1/2500 shutter speed. You can really tell the difference in how the water looks.