One evening in Newport, I had a plan: photograph the Goat Island Lighthouse with the Newport Bridge arching behind it and a sunset sky catching fire. But the light was flat, the scene underwhelming, and no matter how I composed it, the magic wasn’t there.
That’s when the doubt crept in. Why isn’t this working? Am I losing my eye? I try not to silence that voice. I listen. And this time it was whispering: look around. So I stepped back, and just outside my original frame was a small sailboat gliding quietly across the harbor.
I reframed. The lighthouse didn’t disappear, it just shifted from star to supporting role, and that sailboat became the soul of the image. Doubt didn’t derail me that evening. It redirected me.
Available as an open or limited edition print, on paper or metal. Frame not included.
Shot in Newport, Rhode Island.
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