Shooting the Shooter - Bandon

We ended our February excursion at one of our go-to photo locations - Bandon.  We knew another storm was heading our way and the forecast seemed to change daily - rain, no rain, rain, clear, partly cloudy - but we decided to spend the night and hope for the best.  While it wound up not presenting ideal conditions - the clouds did some really funky things that morning - it was a lovely morning of photographing.  And best of all, Ann made one of her shooting-the-shooter photographs that make for an easy blog post.  Except this time, it was an accident!

We had spent quite some time photographing that morning and, as you might guess, at some point nature calls.  Ann headed back up to the parking area and the rest-room while I stayed down on the beach.  When Ann hadn’t returned after a long while, I looked around to see if she’d just gone to another part of the beach.  Eventually I saw her up on the upper elevations photographing from there.  So I just kept on doing my thing, working may way down the beach towards the parking area.  It was an exceptionally low tide, so even though the sun was up, I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss any opportunities to photograph something I wouldn’t normally be able to. 

The bluff that extends from the parking area offers a very different view of the shoreline.  I’ve included several photographs I’ve taken from it in various blog posts over the years, so it didn’t surprise me that Ann would stay up there to continue photographing.  Ann had decided to focus in on a rock grouping that includes a spire that usually has water around its base.  She positioned herself well (doesn’t she always?) to reveal the gap between the large formations where the wave comes in and using that line and the wave patterns to lead to the base of the spire.  

Once she had that general composition established, she became focused on finding the best exposure time, and with that, the best wave patterns - both in the foreground and off in the distance - to make her images.  It becomes a timing issue and she was entirely focused on the left-hand side of the image.  Little did she realize that, at one point, some idiot down on the beach decided to walk over to the spire and make a photograph.

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Oops!  

Ann was rather nice about it and let me finish making my photograph, which wound up being my last shot of the day.  As I stepped back deciding whether it should be or not, I heard a, “HEY!” from behind me.  I turned around and Ann waved her hand.  Looking at where her camera was pointed, I realized that it was a, “Get the hell out of my photograph you idiot type of wave!” Instead of an “I love you wave.”  I moved.  

So here’s the image I was making while I was ruining Ann’s shot.

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Who says I can’t do two things at once?

In any event, luckily for me the photograph with the best wave patterns is one of the images where I wasn’t present in the frame.  Lucky once again!

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