Split Rock Lighthouse

[JimFox]

A week after going up and spending 5 days in the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota and going on 3 occasions to capture this, I went back for a follow up. When I was first there the fall colors were awesome, probably in the 70-100% range. I knew going back that the fall colors would probably be gone or almost gone. And that's what I found, but it was still great as I got some really cool sunset colors at the Lighthouse.

I debated on the crop. I liked the reflected water at the bottom, but it may be too much for the scene.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

I like the pastel palette for this scene and don't feel like the pools at the bottom are distracting at all.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice one Jim, the crop is fine although the pour off catches my eyes before the reflected light.

 

[JimFox]

I like the pastel palette for this scene and don't feel like the pools at the bottom are distracting at all.

Thanks Alan!

 

[JimFox]

Nice one Jim, the crop is fine although the pour off catches my eyes before the reflected light.

I think that is the way I want it Ben. I didn't want the reflected water at the bottom to be a distraction. I was hoping that small spill off would work as a nice small foreground interest.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I like it the way it is. The eye moves nicely through the image. Did you try a long exposure here? It would be interesting to see both the cloud as well as water movement in a long exposure.

 

[JimFox]

I like it the way it is. The eye moves nicely through the image. Did you try a long exposure here? It would be interesting to see both the cloud as well as water movement in a long exposure.

Thanks Jameel. I am glad your eye flows nicely.

This is my long exposure, it’s 1/5th of a second. Any more and the water just turns to mush which I don’t like. There also was very little water action. It’s weird to shoot because since I am used to shooting the ocean and Lake Superior has a real ocean feel to it, you expect water movement like what would happen at the ocean. But it doesn’t happen, a 3” wave rolls in every minute or so and causes the tiny splash. It’s also weird because I expect the water level to be going up
and down like it would with the tide of the ocean, but it just stays where it is. I kept finding myself keeping an eye open for a sneaker wave to get me wet, but it never happened. A strange sensation for someone who is used to the ocean.

 

[Joe Colozzo]

beautiful image Jim! I love everything about it, from the perspective right down to the lovely sunset tones in the sky.