Marblehead Harbor Under a Dramatic Sky at Sunset

As I mentioned in Monday’s post, I had been feeling the urge to go out and shoot a landscape image on Saturday when I looked out the window and saw these great clouds forming at 7pm.  With the taciturn approval of my wife, I grabbed my gear and ran out of the house.

My first stop was one of my favorite public ways – Parker Avenue.  I have shot a number of sunset images from the top of the stair leading to Marblehead harbor below and am pleasantly surprised with each outing here being different than the last.

On this day, […]

Abbot Hall Tower Illuminated in the Fog

On Monday, May 6th, I arrived home and noted that fog was starting to roll in.  I decided to grab the kids and my camera and head out in hopes of capturing the unique beauty of foggy scenes.  We started off on Parker Lane – me with my camera, they with an old dSLR.  The fog would thicken to the point of hiding the distant mainland and the sun at times and then quickly dissipate revealing the shores again.

From there we drove up to Chandler Hovey Park and photographed a bit more.  The fog seemed to be receding for […]

Marblehead Harbor Starting to Fill with Boats

Last night, I arrived home from work only to find a fog starting to roll in.  I quickly ate dinner and grabbed the camera and kids (my wife was at a staff meeting) and headed out to shoot some fog.  I’m happy to report that the venture was a great success – not only did I capture some nice shots of my kids but I took what maybe a top-10 all time photo for me…this is not that photo.

Before taking that image, we explored Chandler Hovey park and shot – I with my camera, the kids with my old […]

The Full Pink Moon Rises Over the Harbor

On April 25th, the Pink Moon was due to rise and I made plans to try to capture it.  I use a program called TPE (the photographer’s ephemeris) to plan out the location of moon rise, moon set, sunrise and sunsets.  I opened up that program on my iPad and started hunting for good vantage points.  I decided that Crocker Park would be the best location for the April full moon and headed there before sunset.  After the sun disappeared below the horizon, I started to wonder when the moon would make its appearance.  There were some clouds/haze at […]

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