Havre de Grace: Bay Light and iPhone
Creativity finds you where and when it does. For me, it's usually behind the lens of my camera. You see... photography is my passion. It's the fire in which my creativity burns. So it was the weekend of January 12, 2019, as I found myself traveling through Harford County, Maryland.
I wasn't there with the intention of doing photography. I didn’t have my camera bag or any of my gear with me. It was an unplanned, impromptu adventure, and I knew I had made a mistake ten minutes into the trip.
Driving through Bel Air and Aberdeen on my way to Havre de Grace, I sorely wished I had my gear. The weather was perfect: 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 three-quarter-mile boardwalk on the south side of Havre de Grace. The Promenade offers vistas of both the Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna River.
This wasn’t the reason I traveled to Harford County, but it was the place that called to me. Years had passed since my last visit. So many, in fact, that I couldn’t 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 just beyond. Now I truly regretted not having my camera bag.
Instinctively, though, I reached over to the passenger seat and picked up my iPhone. It wasn’t the camera I wanted, but it was the one I had with me. A trusted one. 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 water and the birds of the Chesapeake Bay.
I love this silence, the silence of nature. I love to capture it in my images. And so... I walked. I walked and took in the quiet, capturing the stillness in the images you see here.
The images presented were captured with an older iPhone, an iPhone 6. All of them were processed in Adobe Lightroom and converted to black and white using Mastin Labs presets. Detail and depth were enhanced by increasing clarity, sharpness, and contrast. Frame ratios are 6:7 and 16:9.
Enjoy!!
