I wanted to post a photo from the archive and started going back through the past few months. Despite the recent warm Spring weather, it felt way too early for an image of snow. I ended up at this image taken on December 15th, 21012 at Chandler Hovey Park. I’m pretty sure this was an unseasonable warm Winter day* and I recall taking a photo of the Marblehead Savings Bank menorah a half hour earlier. As the sun set, the clouds suggested a nice sunset was in store and I drove out to the lighthouse to see about capturing […]
Marblehead Light Under the Stars
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I had gone out to Chandler Hovey park on Sunday at sunset hoping to catch the tail end of a large coronal mass ejection with promises of auroras in the night sky. I was fortunate that a nice sunset developed and, after capturing it, returned to the car to warm up (it was in the 30s but the wind was whipping across the water) and change to my wide angle lens. I then set up this composition and waited.
The tricky part with stars is that the camera is able to capture much more […]
Summer Sunset at Chandler Hovey Park
Is it too early for a ‘warm’ picture? It’s been freezing lately and this morning is no exception. As I watched the election results roll in last night, I combed through my photo archive (currently with 268 images waiting to post) and settled on this shot taken on August 2nd. The image struck me for the warm feel coming from the colors of the sunset. There is a whole lot […]
Lighthouse Reflections at Sunset
If yesterday’s post was the ‘rule breaker’, this one is toeing the line when it comes to composition. You’ll note the lighthouse in the left third of the frame, the leading lines formed by the grass bringing the viewer’s eye to the base of the lighthouse and then extending up in the form of the clouds over the water.
So, which do you prefer – the ‘rule breaker’ or ‘rule follower’?
