Another Red Bank Photo Trophy

I make a lot of trips to Red Bank Marina and the small spit of land that juts into Hoover with a parking lot and small pavilion.

I made a lot of photos there and could do that every day if I so desired.

My trip yesterday was at the end of a busy day that left little time for feature photography. Red Bank was my immediate choice for the My Final Photo search as I headed to city hall for the Uptown Review Board meeting. I felt confident there would be at least one good photo.

There turned out to be two good photos.

I stepped out of the car with only the iPhone looking to the east for someone fishing, All I could see were two heads just poking above the eroded shoreline. They were too small to use as primary subjects. They would be lost in the expanse.

I turned to the picnic table at the far right where the afternoon sun fell through openings between trees and enveloped the table and surrounding ground. The only person nearby was a young boy fixing bait on his hook. I waited until the father joined him at the table, also fixing bait to his hook.

I made several quick photos explaining to the father that I’d waited for him, instead of photographing the kid by himself and how the late afternoon sun hitting them was almost perfect light.

While I had waited for the father, I’d turned back to the couple I first saw with only their heads visible. The man was walking toward a cooler and a set of tackle boxes that were in a different location along the shoreline. He moved them closer to their fishing location and returned to his shoreline seat. As he stepped across the frame, I made the photo above using the shadows and trees as framing devices.

Gave it an edit to keep the shadows dark.

Used the father and son photo as My Final for the day.

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