Rising moon

We woke up the next morning at around 4h30 AM, early enough to catch dawn and the sunrise.

We decided to drive back to the dunes and boy was it the best decision we made! First we were greeted by a setting thin moon crescent. What a treat! We were expecting a moonless night but apparently we were off by one day… Never so happy to be wrong! Setting up the tripod, I was lucky enough to catch this beauty.

And then we just walked up the dunes again. Nothing beats the immensity one feels when climbing a sand dune. I believe it has to do with how they refer us back to the fragility of life… Nature can turn entire seas and countries into sand… And the all mighty man can’t stop it… One can’t help but feel humble by such force and beauty.

So all we did is just take in the beauty, basking in the slowly rising sun. These moments were amongst my favourites of this entire trip. The landscape was changing by the second, mountains turning red, then blue… The sun was firing the dunes and warming us. For a second there, I felt completely out of time.

Hope you’ll like the pictures… As always, your comments are most welcome.

Next post: hitting the backcountry roads. Happy Monday everyone!

Btw, we won the first round of the series in hockey... Wouhou!! H.

Incredible body of work

One of my favourite things to do when I have time to spare is to wander the Internet in search of photographic inspiration. After all, it is by constantly challenging himself that one just might improve.

This also has to do with the fact that last week I went out with a good buddy of mine and fellow shutter bug and we spent most of the evening trying to figure out what our photography was all about... Turned out that once you mentioned the obvious reason – capturing the essence of life, culture, playing with light, creativity and so on – defining your UNIQUE style is something else.

So until I’ve come up with something half decent about my own pictures, I’ve decided to share inspiration and links with you all as part of an exercise consisting of defining what really turns me on when it comes to photography on a regular basis.

The first photographer feature in this new column is from my hometown. I came across his website totally by luck and am sure glad I did. Sylvain Lefebvre’s work is – in my humble opinion – the perfect balance between photojournalism and art photography. You can view some of his shots HERE.

H.