My wife and I enjoyed a treat this past Saturday evening with boating and dinner on a nearby lake — thanks to a friend of my wife who owns a beautiful pontoon boat.

Dockside Dining
Dockside Dining

I’d tucked my Canon S90 camera in a pocket of my cargo shorts and managed to make a few shots I like beyond the normal snapshots.

This first one, taken from our docked boat, is where we dined. Those bright yellow umbrellas were casting a delightful reflection in the waters. The food was good too!

Waiting to Launch
Waiting to Launch

A fast looking bright yellow cruiser was docked on the other side of us. It had a streamlined bow that seem to beg to be slicing through air and waves — reminded me of a bird of prey, waiting impatiently to fly.

Night Cruising
Night Cruising

The S90 is not a great low light camera, especially if there’s movement involved. That doesn’t mean you can’t capture some nice images. You simply have to work within it’s limitations and take advantage of what it can do — true of any camera.

It was growing dark as we departed the restaurant for our cruise home and I made this ‘underway’ shot from the bow just before the last light faded from the sky. We were moving at a pretty good clip and I was hoping the slow night speed of the S90 would work to my advantage with nice soft motion blur. I’m pleased with this image. It took several tries to finally land one with the effect I was hoping for.

A nice time with an enjoyable ‘scenic’ nighttime cruise back. A wonderful “something different” from most of our weekends. :-)

4 Comments

  1. Sounds like a lovely weekend!

  2. Some very nice images from what sounds like a great time.

  3. Sounds like a fine time on the lake. Nice lake shots in and around the water. The reflections in the first one are very nice.

  4. Looks like you had a good time. Sorry I’m a couple days behind on comments, something called work got in the way. If you keep posting images using the S90, there could be more of your friends purchasing them. Of course we must give credit to the photographer behind the camera.