As promised, here comes another shot of my current home, Hamilton. This area is another place I pass on the way to my apartment. When I come home in the evenings, I drive through a lot of the city. Surprisingly, this image was made within walking distance of the first one I post a week or so ago.
As residents know, Hamilton is a river town. And the access to that easy transportation led to the rise of industry in the city. The paper mills still run, but they aren’t don’t employ as many people and they aren’t as much of an influence on the city as they used to be.
H-Town has a long history with the river. There are actually tunnels that run under parts of the city that at one time used the river currents to generate electricity. These are no longer in operation and some are now collapsing and causing problems for roads that run over them. It is strange to think about that technology being used decades ago, much like the Model-T Ford that was designed to run on soy bean oil and drove 25 miles per gallon of fuel. Maybe we should have stuck with what we had.
Anyway, this is another night shot. Unlike the previous photo, it shows a little more of the river action. Hope you enjoy it. I can’t say that either of the recent Hamilton shots are that hard to recreate. They were both shot at very low shutter speeds, but if you have a tripod, you should have no trouble. The reason why I like these shot is that they take a page from Ansel Adams’ playbook. It has been said that he was not a landscape photographer, but was really a weather photographer. If you look at many of his images, his skies are always filled with clouds. That’s why your shot of Yosemite Falls doesn’t look like his. He wait for days and days for the weather to be be right.
The first shot of the High/Main Bridge required the wind to be blowing in the right direction and it needed to be cold enough for the steam to really plume out. Also, it needed to be a clear night with no fog. This second image desperately needed clouds, and the time of day needed to be right so I could pull some blue out in the sky.





