This is a photograph of the City Dock in Bayfield, WI and almost didn’t happen. Jennifer and I were on the west side of the Bayfield Peninsula hoping to get some nice sunset shots over Lake Superior but it was not to be with the cloud cover. We drove back and ended up walking around downtown Bayfield for an hour or so. I was pretty much ready to call it a night but having brought the tripod along, was determined to get a couple of shots in.

This came out of the camera as is with the exception of some minor tweaks with the Black Clipping and Highlight Recovery and I cropped out a bush in the bottom left that was distracting. I took only two shots from this angle and the second one was taken only about a foot to my left and yet looks nothing like this version at all. Moral of the story, if you bring your tripod on vacation, make sure you use it.

Exposure: 10.0 sec, Aperture: f/11.0, Focal Length: 35mm, ISO 200