Cover of the 2011 Door County Go Guide

Sunday, July 10th, 2011  |   Posted by :  admin

We just drive when we're out taking pictures and chase the light around. We may have a vague idea of where we'd like to be when the golden light arrives, but as often as not, we find ourselves before a scene we didn't expect at all. It may be a scene we've shot before, or passed on, but on some evenings the light transforms the land into a landscape worthy of some time and creative energy. It might be somewhere new to us, like this stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline north of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. We hadn't been here before but we immediately knew that we should spend some time. As I (Luke) lay down in the wet sand at the wave's terminus to photograph the small stones that live there, Heather used the blowing grasses that grow along the beach to mirror the lines of the waves. The late-day light played in the sand with the long shadows of distant cedars. We eventually got to our destination — the lighthouses at the Canal — and we took some pictures we liked, but we weren't surprised at all to find that we took our favorites on the way there.

Heather & Luke Frykman, ©2011, www.door-county-photography.com