Figure 1 – Stairs, Kennebunkport, ME. (c) DE Wolf 2014.

As every photographer knows, it’s all about the light, and in this particular photograph – again weathered wood in Kennebunkport’s Dock Square – I was beckoned by the light.  The high dynamic range was challenging as were the weird angles Of course, the weird angles merely represent a puzzle to be solved – a puzzle that required very careful framing and attention to all of the details.  In the end I particularly like the slightly out of focus vertical in the lower right.  When I concentrate on the specifics, I am kind of amused by the little stems poking out of the flower box and where dirt and soil have collected on the bottom edge of the box. This is when you know that your lens is delivering!

One of the nice elements of such a photograph is that when I return to this place in the future, when the light will be different, I will remember this photograph.  I suppose that the same must be true for people who paint.  When you have spent so much time studying and capturing a particular moment in time and place, it is always there in your memory.

A little boy came out of a shop just as I was taking this picture, and he laughed at the silly man with the long monopod and camera.  My monopod was extended maximally, and it was propped on a step at the bottom of the stairs and tilted at a large angle.  What a funny man!

Canon EF70-200mm f/4L USM at 70 mm, ISO 400, Aperture Priority, 1/1250 th sec at f/8.0 no compensation.