A Photographer Afloat

Exeter three loops-6

April 1, 2016 Leave a Comment

Double Locks came up too soon to stop for lunch – a pity, because I remember a very pleasant pie and pint we had here with my sister-in-law a few years ago. It still looked inviting, but I bravely passed by…
A photographer was setting up his medium format camera on a tripod on the bank opposite the pub, so I paused, not wanting to disturb his reflections, only to be asked to paddle on to give some foreground interest! Having taken his photographic directions, I hauled out at the first portage point – not a bad platform, but unfortunately positioned over the bypass channel for the lock. In a stronger flow, that could have been a bit challenging…

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With more than thirty years of paddling and at least a decade of landscape photography behind me, it was only a matter of time before these two passions combined. This blog is about my adventures with canoe and camera, a photographer afloat.

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