100 Images in 365 Days - #1 Heavy Skies of the Monterey Bay

For a while now I been looking for something that will push myself back to regular shooting, and I think I found it. I used to shoot a lot more when I got my first SLR couple of years ago. I had more free time then while I was still in college, but I also had more motivation. I had a goal to post new picture every day on Flickr. After a while, however, I got weary of it and decided to stop the 365 Project. I describe why here.

However, if I don't have goals, I find myself not doing very much. So in my search for a new project, I came across a project that one of my favorite photographers Brooks Jensen started to keep himself motivated to produce new work, and that is, post 100 new images in 365 days, or one image every three days. You can see his project here.

I will do the same thing. In the next year I will post 100 new images here. The rules are simple:

• this should be a new image I have not posted before (although I don't have to shoot a new picture every three days, as I can dig in my archives to process some images I haven't published here before)
• I can't post family related pictures
• I can't post pictures from paid assignments, such as portrait sessions which I do on occasions
• I will also post a short description about the picture.
  

With that, here is the first image in the series.



I took this image last Sunday as we visited Monterey and this image was taken during a sunrise. I always wanted to take a picture of these colorful structures at Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, but I knew I needed a right light for it or else the saturated color of these house won't come through.

It was a stormy morning, and I didn't think I'd see much of anything in the skies, but just as the sun appeared on the horizon, it illuminated the stormy clouds above it with all kinds of color. I quickly set up my camera as I knew the light and the color won't last long and took few long exposures to smooth out the water and to capture more color as it was changing in the skies. The light from the sun also allowed me to capture the color of the buildings, just as I wanted. Five minutes later the color was gone, as was the sun, and the rain returned.