Western New Brunswick
Hey, it’s been a while. Almost six months, in fact. After my last post, I got a new guitar, a piano, started jamming weekly with some guys, and started bowling season, which inevitably pushed photography to the back burner. Also, autumn and winter already tend to be slower for me in terms of photography, in part due to the shorter days.
While going through my photographs last week, I realized that I’d never finished sharing images from my last photography trip. So let’s wrap it up.
In my previous newsletter issue, I shared some images I had taken of trees on a foggy morning in St. Andrews by-the-sea. What I didn’t mention was that the fog stuck around for most of the morning and I was able to make more photographs in those conditions before heading north.
But before I get to those, I wanted to talk about the image at the top of this post that is possibly my favourite one of the entire trip. It’s simple, but I like the textures. It kind of looks like elephant skin, doesn’t it?
Before I tell you what it is, can you guess?
It’s a picture of one side of the Lighthouse Town Wharf in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, on which the following decorative lighthouse stands.
But St. Stephen was only a brief stop towards our ultimate destination: the Salmon River trestle train bridge.
This thing is gigantic. And as such, it’s difficult to photograph it in a way that does it justice. My best attempt was to include a nearby house in the images to emphasize how big it really is.
The fact it started raining just as we got there, and that you’re somewhat limited in how you can photograph it without impeding on the private properties in its vicinity, means that I didn’t stick around for as long as I had anticipated.
That night, we camped in Grand Falls, which allowed us to explore the town in the evening and again the following morning. Of course, the main attractions there are the falls and the gorge.
On the way back home the next day, we made a brief stop in Fredericton and walked around downtown along the St. John River.
Finally, here are a few more images from St. Andrews by-the-sea before we left.
That’s it for now. As always, thank you for your interest in my photography!