Beautiful today...

I finally went down to the marina this morning. I didn't have to try very hard to not act excited, at first anyway. I guess I can have some definite preferences when I want to shoot. Not too windy, sun not completely up yet or just barely, not too cloudy, all these factors usually make my day. The kids used to play opposite day, today becomes my grown up opposite day. Mother nature punishes me for ignoring her for so long. I even let my school shoes and good jeans soak in the waves. The wind and cool spray are nearly enough to make me leave, and yes, I truly spent a quarter of a century in New England, I just can't stand the cold and I don't have too. More breezy than cold, I find all my old favorite spots to poke my camera into and forget everything else around me. I lose myself in my little world of angles, light, holes, balancing on rock and concrete and hoping I don't kill myself for that one last perfect shot. I leave the banks for the safety of firm ground in the park and find more holes in the rocks. I capture a fisherman leaving, he happened by as I was shooting through a hole. The elements hindered his day, as I thought would happen to mine, but I had a huge grin and I didn't care who saw me enjoying myself. Though I do wonder what they think sometimes, graceful doesn't come to mind when I think of how I acquire some of these shots.