Greatest Hits of 2014 - Sailing

About this image:

This particular image was intended to capture the movement and excitement of sailing on a beautiful clear, breezy day, juxtaposed with a very stationary lighthouse and low unadorned beach.  The clean lines and simple composition were intended to create a classic-styled suitable-for-framing tourist image. I especially like the way the sunlight illuminates both the right side of the sail and the right side of the lighthouse. The location is Herring Cove, Cape Cod Bay, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.

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About this series:

Last year, I created about 20,000 images with my point-and-shoot camera.  Of those, I published about 2,000 in 329 separate blog posts. I sat down recently and wandered through those 2,000 images and decided to select around 20 of them to re-publish as my "Greatest Hits of 2014," along with a comment about why I think each one is among my best.

First, a comment about digital photography. Comparing digital to film, if I use a purchase price of $7 per roll (for a 36-exposure roll of color film) and add another $13 per roll to process as a benchmark, those 20,000 images would have used about 555 rolls at a total cost of more than $11,000! which would have been unaffordable.

Since I didn't use film, my only cost was the memory card and batteries in the camera. Essentially zero cost per image. No wonder digital camera photography has taken the world by storm.