Seldom Harbour Panorama - Fogo Island

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Seldom Harbour Panorama - Fogo Island

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I was finally able to get back outside yesterday, (I love when my spine periodically allows me a little bit of freedom!) and spent a couple of hours touring around Fogo Island with my cameras in tow.

Our weather has been fabulous; hard to believe it is almost mid-December. When you look at this first image, a panorama of the harbour in the town of "Seldom Come By" (yup, that's the real name!) it could have been taken in July. What a gorgeous December day, when much of the rest of Canada is frozen, and buried in snow! You would not think this is Northern Newfoundland!

The second image was captured in the historic town of Tilting. (you may recall that Tilting is one of the oldest settlements in North America) This is a typical fishing stage, like hundreds of others scattered around the island, and used to process and store the catch-of-the-day.

The third one is a traditional hand-made Fogo Island punt, sitting directly in front of my house in Island Harbour. If it looks familiar to you, it's because it is the same little boat that shows up repeatedly throughout my website. I just can't get enough of these photogenic old hand-crafted boats.

The final (4th) shot is of this very same boat; (included for comparison) you have likely seen this one before, as it was taken two summers ago.

The first two were taken with my Alpha DSLR and 18-55mm SAM lens; the third one with my H50, and the last with my trusty old H7.

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WOW!!! enough said.

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Thanks for posting. Those are beautiful photos.

Sorry to hear that you have back problems.
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Very interesting Glen, about time we had a despatch from our Fogo Is. correspondant. Yeah I'll bet snow and Ice over in Canada for sure, the Ocean is probably keeping that away for the time being at Fogo Is. Looking at those rocks, they didn't get that way from wave action I don't think, they look to be ground flat from glaciation, so Fogo Is. could have had it's icy moments in the past...
Very nice pix, the pan would look good at a big size, you can sort of see just enough to want to see more.
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Hi Glen, : )

Nice to hear from you! Always a pleasure to see the Fogo Island through your trusty cameras.

All are stunning...actually, all are very brilliant in colour, clarity and composition, something unique with Fogo Island lannscapes... :)


Glad you are at least feeling up to some photo shooting.


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Lovely shots as always from Fogo Island Glen. Super colours in the first one. As you say it does not look like winter there yet.
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Very great shot, like to see that not everybody is under snow like us.

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Welcome back, Glen, and as always with more wonderful shots.
I agree with you that boats are very very photogenic.
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