Friday, April 3, 2009

Quincy Ghost

A night view overlooking Houghton, with a ghostly figure looking on.
A ghost watching over Houghton in the moonlight.

I enjoy night photography -- moonlight gives everything a wonderfully strange appearance. During the last full moon, I snowshoed out onto the old Quincy rock pile and played around with my camera and tripod. The rock pile has this strange arrangement of stones put together by someone, a lovely place to sit and rest. One of my photos came up with a strange result... this ghostly figure watching the Houghton hillside. Who could it be? What long dead miner or farmer could this be? What does it all mean?

Well, not to keep you in suspense for more than a paragraph -- it means that I was having fun with long exposures. This was one of the results -- a ghostly self-portrait, overlooking Houghton. Look carefully and enjoy!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a magical photo! I can see why the "ghost" would like to sit and look out over Houghton and the Portage. JC

LisaNewton said...

Amazing shot. I love the far off lights of the city, and your ghostly figure is quite amazing.

Summer said...

This is my favorite photo of yours so far (it scores high on both whimsy and beauty). This should absolutely be your profile pic in all social networking from now on, lol:) Now on to the Pauling Ghost Lights...

DC said...

@JC, LisaNewton: Thanks!
@Summer: Heh, cool. It definitely scores high on the whimsy side. It dosen't show up well in a small size, so I guess I'm stuck stealing Quincy signs for a while now...

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It is beautiful photo.

Photograph Afficionado said...

How incredibly gorgeous, I didn't even see you there! The composition is so spot on!