Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries: 23 July 06 |
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One
of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal, which originally
began in downtown Buffalo, and later when the canal was widened
and renamed the Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and
still begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River where
Tonawanda Creek empties into the river.
We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport to Brockport,
and we've rowed a time or two, too.
Sun,
moon, and sky guys
07August06
: The
Reverend and I decided to go
up to the canal for the sunset, and we weren't disappointed.
And the moon -- full in the sky -- made for a second
act as good as the first. And in terms of sky-writing,
even better.
We
had the sun, the moon, and reflections in the water
of these two solid friends.
The reflections? Call them sky
guys. Stange and wonderful, never
seen before, and thereby worthy of a new name.
This
is a medium-amazing sunset. Seen better, seen worse. Still,
these colors are fine. |
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Camera
magic joins light breeze to create a rippled image. |
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Then
a traditional shot of the rising moon, at the tree line. |
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And
now, for some fun, the navigational light dwarfs the moon,
which is peeking from behind the corner of the boat. |
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And
after shooting a few hundred shots to get the effect of
the moon and the light and the boat, I noticed that the
moon reflected in the water was like Japanese Kanji handwriting
on the wall. In some ways, this shot is the most dramatic
relection I've captured. |
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Another
reflection of the moon in the water. |
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And
a third. |
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