Havre De Grace With An iPhone
/Creativity finds you where and when it does. For me, it is usually behind the lens of my camera. You see... Photography is my passion. It is the fire in which my creativity burns. So it was this past weekend (January 12, 2019) as I found myself traveling through Harford County, Maryland.
I was not there with the intention of doing photography. I did not have my camera bag or any of my gear with me. It was an unplanned and impromptu adventure. I knew I had made a mistake ten minutes into the trip.
Driving through BelAir and Aberdeen on my way to Havre de Grace, I sorely wished I had my camera gear. The weather was perfect. It was an overcast winter’s day, mild but with a biting chill in the air.
I was headed for the Chesapeake Bay and The Promenade. A scenic 3/4 mile boardwalk on the south side of Havre de Grace, The Promenade, offers vistas of both the Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna River.
This destination was not the reason I travelled to Harford County, but it was location that called to me. Years had pasted since my last visit. So many years, in fact, I could not remember how long it had actually been since I last strolled the boardwalk.
Arriving at my destination, I parked next to the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum. Looking out from my car, there was the Concord Point Lighthouse with the Chesapeake Bay beyond. Now, I truly regretted not having my camera bag.
Instinctively, though, I reached over to the passenger’s seat and picked up my iPhone. Not the camera I wanted, but the camera I had with me. A trusted camera. A camera that has been with me, from one iPhone to the next, for many years.
I left the car behind, iPhone in hand, and made my way to the northern end of The Promenade. The surroundings were still and quiet. There were few people. The only sounds came from the waters and the birds of the Chesapeake Bay.
I love this silence, the silence of nature. I love to capture this silence in my images. And so... I walked. I walked and took in the natural silence while capturing the images you see here.
The images presented here were captured with an older iPhone, an iPhone 6. All the images were processed in Adobe’s Lightroom and converted to black-and-white with Mastin Labs Presets. Detail and depth enhanced by increasing clarity, sharpness, and contrast. Frame ratios are 6:7 and 16:9.
Enjoy!!
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Originally Published: January 15, 2019
