Welcome to Shutter Notes, our new weekly community feature. Shutter Notes will be a chance to get to know our community members a bit better. Each member will share a little bit about themselves and an image they’ve chosen.

Gregory Stringfield is a retired IT professional who has been photographing for over 45 years.

He jokingly likes to describe this image as a long walk off a short pier.

Gregory Stringfield Pier 39

How Gregory created this image

Gregory took around three images to get the shot he wanted here. Using his Hasselblad X1D and a 45mm lens, he was working on his form, structure and composition while lining up the pier in his frame.

Post-processing was done in Hasselblad Phocus and Adobe Photoshop.

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Please only submit one image at a time and for now only one submission per person. We’ll ask for more at a later date if we need them. If you have any questions, comment here or send me a message within the community. We look forward to your submissions.

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