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p.2 #1 · p.2 #1 · Landscapes from East coast?

The coast of MA has some wonderful spots for landscapes/seascapes. A few years ago I took some beautiful sunrise shots from Horseneck Beach.

Oct 18, 2013 at 08:18 AM

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I'm not saying it doesn't have its own charm, but for diversity and different types of scenery the west definately has a lot of options.
A lot of those scenes in Cookies images are far more style and how the images were taken than actual diversity of different locations. I think most of us have taken similar images, but there all more or less the same thing.

Oct 18, 2013 at 09:17 AM

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Bsmooth wrote:
I'm not saying it doesn't have its own charm, but for diversity and different types of scenery the west definately has a lot of options.
A lot of those scenes in Cookies images are far more style and how the images were taken than actual diversity of different locations. I think most of us have taken similar images, but there all more or less the same thing.

What, and the millions of images of Tunnel View aren't all more or less the same? Or Half Dome? or Big Sur? Or Cannon Beach? It's just different geology. It doesn't appeal to you, and that's fine. To each his own. I prefer to find beauty wherever I am. The east coast has plenty. It's your loss if you choose not to see it.

Oct 18, 2013 at 09:21 AM

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p.2 #4 · p.2 #4 · Landscapes from East coast?

Bunch of haters in this thread!

I moved to CA 5ish years ago, and my photography skills have increased a lot, but I attribute that mainly to my maturation as a person, as well as my amount of free time to photograph having increased. For all its significant beauty, California has failed to steal my heart away from the east coast, where I plan to move back after my PhD has been completed. I like its clouds better, its storms better, its flora better, and its rivers and streams better (yes, CA gets the nod as far as mountains)

Oct 18, 2013 at 11:19 AM

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p.2 #5 · p.2 #5 · Landscapes from East coast?

Not haters at all, and in a way being in the East makes you a better photographer, at least in the sense that you have to get more out of what you have, which is limited at best.
I've been to the west coast,,yet lived in sight of the ocean right from my house, and yet the west coast still amazed me.
In a strange twist though, my wife lived on the west coast, and told me she was sick of it, and really loves it here.
Its all about diversity, and opportunities. Being on either coast doesn't make you a great photographer, but as far as what you can photograph is so much more on the west coast.
Here's a few examples: find me a desert on the east coast.Larger National Parks (when there open of course) are easier to get to. Oceans, both have them, fishing is better though on the west coast. Mtns, hands down the west coast has larger ones. Giant Redwoods, none on the east coast. Coastlines are both nice, but west coast is at least in my opinion, more interesting.
Foliage, the East has the reds of the maples, but the west has the yellows. Snow both have, but in the west it seems to stay longer. Wildlife both have, yet the West has so much more to offer, and its just plain easier to find, sometime even when you don't want to !
Maybe the storms are better here, but with Global weather changes, even that may not last much longer.
Maybe it is a tossup, but If I had a chance and opportunity, I'd be off to the West coast in a flash, matter of fact that might be just what I'm going to do when I do retire.
Not a hater though, I'll always remember the colours, and storms here, more of an opportunist I guess you might say. We all need to see as much as we can, while its here, and we're around to see it.

Oct 18, 2013 at 11:52 AM

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p.2 #6 · p.2 #6 · Landscapes from East coast?

Then of course there's Maine, Acadia, etc.
I don't get this "West coast better than East coast" mentality and I am a lifelong CA resident.
It's just different. Good photography is not about duplicating eye-candy.
Making a good photograph is about seeing something special in a scene, framing it, applying skills and waiting for the right time to open the shutter.
Some of my most rewarding images are from local parks when the mood is just right.

Oct 18, 2013 at 12:55 PM

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Cookies wrote:
I have plenty of east coast images that I have posted here before. While I agree the west is more dramatic, the east coast has its own charm and beauty. See links below.

Chris

http://www.abmedia.com/astro/capecod/

http://www.abmedia.com/astro/vermont/

Love the cape cod shots. Been vacationing there for 25 years, would live there if i could.

Oct 18, 2013 at 01:28 PM

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rickberk wrote:
What, and the millions of images of Tunnel View aren't all more or less the same? Or Half Dome? or Big Sur? Or Cannon Beach? It's just different geology. It doesn't appeal to you, and that's fine. To each his own. I prefer to find beauty wherever I am. The east coast has plenty. It's your loss if you choose not to see it.

+1

It does seem a little silly to talk about east coast landscape shots all being the same thing when it seems so many west coast ones are of the same iconic view and 95% are scenic overlooks with not nearly as many interior forest or alternate type shots attempted, anything other than a clean scenic overlook is too messy or not worth it sort of thinking. How is that being less more or less the same thing? And there is lots of beauty here too.

not to say the dramatic scenes in the West are not amazing though as they are

Oct 18, 2013 at 01:37 PM

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Bsmooth wrote:
Larger National Parks (when there open of course) are easier to get to.

I think it's a mirage though since when you are out there you are expecting to be traveling around and driving all over and the same distances seem much longer and crazier when at home

. For instance, the Adirondacks make most NP in the West look small and it's not that far from where you live really.

Giant Redwoods, none on the east coast.

Yeah nothing really matches them or the temperate rain forests of the PNW (what remain).
That said we do have some pretty nice decent sized trees too. Check out the few remaining old-growth patches in the Western MA or the somewhat larger chunks here and there in the Adirondacks, you get some 4-6' diameter trees and some over 150'. Cook Forest in PA. Great Smoky Mountain National Park has some trees 7-8' diameter and had one 210'. Very lush forests. But yeah the redwoods are pretty amazing. You forget just how insanely impressive if you haven't seen them in person for a while, they somehow still manage to always shock you if it's been a while.

Foliage, the East has the reds of the maples, but the west has the yellows.

East has yellows too.

Wildlife both have, yet the West has so much more to offer, and its just plain easier to find, sometime even when you don't want to !

That depends somewhat. Cape May, NJ during migration is hard to beat for number of species seen at once I bet.
And it's easier to see a deer here. Bear can be pretty plentiful here too (although not quite like in some NP in the west where it can be almost a given in a few of them).

The west does have a lot of impressive scenery though. It certainly is a lot, lot, lot easier to find dramatic landscapes to shoot than in NJ, certainly of the grand overlook sort.

Oct 18, 2013 at 01:47 PM

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Bsmooth wrote:
Larger National Parks (when there open of course) are easier to get to.

I think it's a mirage though since when you are out there you are expecting to be traveling around and driving all over and the same distances seem much longer and crazier when at home

. For instance, the Adirondacks make most NP in the West look small and it's not that far from where you live really.

Terrain in the Southern Appalachians does get pretty wild and West-like. Catskills have some wild terrain too.

Giant Redwoods, none on the east coast.

Yeah nothing really matches them or the temperate rain forests of the PNW (what remain).
That said we do have some pretty nice decent sized trees too. Check out the few remaining old-growth patches in the Western MA or the somewhat larger chunks here and there in the Adirondacks, you get some 4-6' diameter trees and some over 150'. Cook Forest in PA. Great Smoky Mountain National Park has some trees 7-8' diameter and had one 210'. Very lush forests. But yeah the redwoods are pretty amazing. You forget just how insanely impressive if you haven't seen them in person for a while, they somehow still manage to always shock you if it's been a while.

Hmm not sure what is going wrong with my post, most of it keeps not showing up even though I see it is still all here in edit more. Hmm had to change quotes to bolds for some reaosn.

Foliage, the East has the reds of the maples, but the west has the yellows.

East has yellows too.

Wildlife both have, yet the West has so much more to offer, and its just plain easier to find, sometime even when you don't want to !

That depends somewhat. Cape May, NJ during migration is hard to beat for number of species seen at once I bet.
And it's easier to see a deer here. Bear can be pretty plentiful here too (although not quite like in some NP in the west where it can be almost a given in a few of them).

The west does have a lot of impressive scenery though. It certainly is a lot, lot, lot easier to find dramatic landscapes to shoot than in NJ, certainly of the grand overlook sort.

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Oct 18, 2013 at 01:50 PM

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p.2 #11 · p.2 #11 · Landscapes from East coast?

I'd sure miss the fall though. And in many places out west it is quite dry and the lush forests would be quite missed (of course if you live in certain parts of the West it's not exactly dry and barren

Oct 18, 2013 at 01:56 PM

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nugeny wrote:
Why don' t I see images, landscapes, form East coast? Florida and all the way up to Canada?
I am from the West and would like to see some from the Atlantic coast!

That's because us here in the east are too busy working for a living!!

Oct 18, 2013 at 02:21 PM

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p.2 #13 · p.2 #13 · Landscapes from East coast?

I showed this image some months back in this forum. This is a great waterfall from the East!


	© nugeny 2013

Oct 18, 2013 at 02:22 PM

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p.2 #14 · p.2 #14 · Landscapes from East coast?

Its not whether I choose to see them or not, and If anyone really bothered to read my post acrefully you would see I do say that. All I know is I have been to most of the places in the east worth going to and was just plain impressed by the west coast.
Talk about a tit for tat thread, I can see why it happens here all the time, but who really cares, the scenery is where you find it. And If you don't well hey theres always next time.
BTW I had never in my 40 years of looking seen one, and I did try for Bald Eagles around here in the East. 1st trip to Northern CA and I saw 4 or 5 in just one outing, and I wasn't even looking for them.
Enjoy the weekend

Oct 18, 2013 at 02:39 PM

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p.2 #15 · p.2 #15 · Landscapes from East coast?

I've seen many bald eagles in the east. They nest along the Susquehanna River in Maryland from October through February near Conowingo Dam. I saw several my first visit there a few years ago. There's also one eagle that lives year round up near Kingston, NY. Just gotta know where to look.

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2012/12/bald-eagles-are-star-attraction-at-conowingo-dam/#1

Oct 18, 2013 at 03:49 PM

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