This image of Peggy's Point lighthouse is an example of "you shoot under the conditions you have".
Peggy's Cove is located along the scenic route from Lunenburg to Halifax. The lighthouse there is one of the iconic Nova Scotia photography locations. I planned to spend several hours there before heading to Halifax.
As you can see, it was nothing but gray skies while we were there. I tried to brighten this image in post-processing, but it did not take much movement of the Brightness slider before the lighthouse blended into the gray skies.
This would have been a great mirror composition with the addition of blue skies and puffy white clouds. Alas, that was not to be during our stop. I ended up with a bland image with no time in our itinerary for another attempt.
Be warned, tour buses start showing up in the parking lot around 0900. If you want people free images, get there early!
I found this pile of lobster buoys and lines next to the visitor center parking lot in Peggys Cove Nova Scotia. This was one of those throwaway shots you take while waiting for your spouse to talk to the people in the visitor center.
I was not sure how the image would turn out because of all of the things in the background. Instead of trying to capture the whole mound shaped pile, I zoomed in to get the circles of line and the buoys. It turned out to be a nice colorful image.