Sights Of Hampton Beach

I haven’t had much time lately to post, but I figured I would share some images from Courtney and I’s recent vacation at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.  Hampton is a familiar place for me.  As a kid, my family would rent a summer cottage every year.  Though they don’t change much, the sights and sounds are always exciting!  It is a fairly busy place, with plenty of novelty shops, restaurants, and arcades.  I, usually get a bit restless after a few days, because I am not a huge beach person, and I don’t play video games.  The one thing I do appreciate is good food!  I am now back on my strict diet which I have been doing great at, but for the week I am at Hampton every year, it’s nothing but junk food for me.  Don’t hate me for not including any photos of fried dough though, I am not a fan.  These photos are all brought to you courtesy of my G10.  Such a handy little camera to take with you.  It does video too, but I haven’t really played with that yet.

 

The Hampton Strip is all about one way streets. Can make for a pain when trying to park!

 

You know your at the beach when every little nook and cranny is filled with sand!

 

The view from my towel!

 

Steamed Clams! Taken at Sea Catch Restaurant. By far the best at Hampton!

 

Couldn't resist a little sand/towel macro shot!

 

The famous "skee-ball". This is the only game I play at the arcade.

 

Lobster Raviloi. I have never seen it stripped like that.

 

Courtney hit it big at the arcade! We're almost there to getting that food processor they have there!

 

1500 Tickets!!! I never have that luck. Jackpot!

 

This was the biggest portion of Chicken Parmesean I have ever seen!

 

I got this idea from one of my contacts Ashleigh. I am sure she will comment. Check out her blog!

G10 takes on Macro!

Corn_web-0335, originally uploaded by craig.proulx.

Just when I thought I had experience everything with this camera, I realized that I had not yet made a closeup image yet. A major part of my photography consist of closeups and what better image to make then a nice summery ear of corn. For this image, I used natural window light coming in from the right. The light was soft as it was early evening. To fill in some shadows on the left side, I used a collapsable silver reflector. The G10 can even manually focus too, although I think I used autofocus for this particular image. I have been busy creating images for my stock/commercial portfolio. I have a lot of concepts which are on the back burner, so hopefully I will be pulling those out soon as well.

–Craig