Digital photography and Good Fishing Pictures

I had an e-mail the other day asking about the beautiful photo illustrating the gone fishing notice posted in early July.

The photo, taken at about 4:30 in the afternoon in June 2008 by Dave Dobson, uses some photographic techniques with which he has been experimenting.

It is a shot of me fishing an upstream, dry fly to a trout rising in a typically tiny Nova Scotia, backwoods brook

I am doing a single haul roll cast because there is no room for anything fancy and definitely no room for a mistake. In this situation, you either catch the riser or put him down with rarely a second chance.

According to Dave, the "Strobist” blog spot is one of the most useful and inspirational sites out there for photog's wanting to take the next steps towards mastery of their craft.

I just think it is a great photograph.

A great picture captures more than the moment.

Anyone heard any good fishing quotes lately?

My brother once offered this one when we arrived at a camp. "Early to bed, early to rise; fish like Hell and tell some lies".

I always liked it but this one from Steven Wright made me laugh out loud, "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." A good caption for this post's picture.

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

It was taken by my brother Dave. When I look at it the whole of the trip when it was taken comes back to me, the smell, the sounds, everything. Its amazing how some photos/photographers can do that. It captures one of my favourite places. It is getting dark fast and I've just cast to cover a big, swirling, roll.