kayaking pics

Here's a few pictures I took while kayaking on the morning of December 24.

I was out before dawn in subfreezing temperatures. This is the best time to get good pictures of fog moving across the water.

This picture is from a small inlet that I entered since I knew some geese and ducks stayed there. While on my way to find them, I saw this old dock and decided to take a picture of it also.

I like the look of the old weathered wood with the misty water. There's a sense of isolation and dilapidation here but also a feeling of being abandoned by the rest of the world.

It's very comforting, in a way, just sitting in the water and soaking up that feeling. But after a while it got too cold and I paddled off.


These two pictures are of the ducks I was looking for in that inlet that I mentioned above. The one on the right I took first. As you can tell by their casual attitude, they weren't aware of me yet.

In the picture to the left they didn't like my proximity and were scooting out of there. Since I didn't have my flash enabled, the low light levels forced a longish exposure time so the Canadian Geese are blurred.

The great thing about taking pictures of water fowl from a kayak is just how close you can get before they fly or swim away. As you can see from the second shot, I was only about 5 feet away when they took off.

This picture was taken later in the morning while the sun was just rising above the trees. The temperatures were still low which kept the fog close to the water but soon the sun's radiance would move the fog higher and then eliminate it entirely.

In this picture I was facing towards the sun but angled away to enable me to get the light scattering effect of the sun on the fog.