Picture Perfect: Water Under the Bridge

“I have always wanted to capture a unique Seaport Village scene that screams ‘San Diego,’” says Encinitas-based photographer Vincent Darmohusodo. “The day I took this photo, I dropped my family at the airport and happened to have my backup camera with me. I decided to go to the dock and took some pictures.” The conditions weren’t ideal—it was windy and the clouds were low—but Darmohusodo captured the image using a tripod and a 10-stop neutral density filter, which reduces light by a thousand times.

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He also used a 240-second-long exposure that helped generate the frost-like illusion. In the past year, Darmohusodo has been transferring his images onto recycled wood: “Each photo transfer is unique and no two items are ever the same.” He sells the pieces at Solana Beach’s Leaping Lotus and at pixelonwood.com.

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Email [email protected] by December 31, 2016 for a chance to win Darmohusodo’s recycled wood piece featuring this Seaport Village image.

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Picture Perfect: Water Under the Bridge

Photographer: Albert Liu