Leon Turnbull Photography

I did not want to photograph this old lug of a boat. It has been done and overdone. I have probably seen a hundred photos of this boat. And frankly, it didn’t really interest me too much anymore to photograph it.

But … I was in the area. I was actually within walking distance of the boat from where I shot the sunrise. And the light was still very good. I figured I may as well go see it. I said to myself that if I were to photograph it, I wanted to get a reflection of the boat in the water. That was my goal. I was not too pleased with my results though. The one photograph I took that had a good reflection, was not a very good composition, so I hucked it. I liked the composition on this shot better, but the reflection isn’t all that great. Nonetheless, this is the photo I liked better.

In case you didn’t know and have never heard of this boat before, the boat is called the “Point Reyes” and is located in the town of Inverness in Pt. Reyes Natl. Seashore, in the Tomales Bay. It is very easy to get to. It is also quite firmly entrenched here and is not going to be moved anytime ever.

We were staying in a nice, albeit expensive, little cottage in the town of Inverness Park, at Point Reyes. The couple there owned one cottage that they rented out to tourists. I think they were quite rather surprised at us, that we didn’t just “stay there at the cottage” all day long. Instead, of course, we wanted to get out and see things, go hiking ,go to the beach, see the scenery, etc. Apparently, most of their guests don’t do much of that, they just stay at the cottage all day. It may be a nice cottage and all, but what would be the point of doing that? I don’t get it. You’re gonna drive all the way out of the city to the ocean, and not even bother going to see it?

Of course, I was even worse than that. I got up at unbelievable hours to go photograph the sunrise. I probably almost gave the nice couple a heart-attack when they learned that I did that. Apparently, I did wake them when I turned on the car ignition in the morning too. Oh well.

This is a pre-dawn shot of a pier on Tomales Bay in Inverness. There were zero clouds in the sky again, except for the one little one there on the left side of the frame. I tried to make the most use of it in my photo that I could.