A Photo Conceived

Many a time have I walked past this site and not bothered to take a photo, but I did this time.

It was pretty well a trial photo with the intention of returning at another time if I thought it had potential.

With the tree trunk in the foreground and the canoe club in the distance, I thought it did, indeed, have potential.

My concept was to use my wide angle lens to get more of the old tree in the frame and to take the photo in the early light when the lights in the canoe club might still be on.

They were, and, even better, unlike the above photo, the river was dead calm.

15mm, 2 seconds, 100 ISO, f8, 6:02am

The photo came out close to what I had envisioned, which certainly does not always happen. To some extent it is unfortunate that the wide angle lens also renders the building small, but I knew that would happen, and that is just the way that it goes. I do like how the building is well centered and well framed by trees and branches.

I may return with other lenses to get closer photos, but I am pleased to have pulled this one off to the extent that I did. It is certainly not always what happens.