Today's image comes from October 18th and an outing at dawn in the hopes of catching some early sea smoke. The first hard frost of the year seemed to be a good time to catch some sea smoke but the wind and other factors prevented it from forming. Instead, I pointed my lens at the great tree at Fort Sewall and composed this image to capture the feel of a calm morning on Fort Beach.
Yesterday's torrential rains reminded me of a unique opportunity I had in late July to capture a large rain cloud over Marblehead Harbor and the Neck. I shared another image of this rain cloud focusing on the boats off Fort Beach. Shortly after capturing that image, I made my way to Fort Sewall to explore additional compositions. I ended up shooting the great tree at Fort Sewall from two vantage points but preferred this one with the large rain cloud easily spotted over Marblehead Neck. You can also just make out Marblehead Light visible through a break in the foliage [...]
In the early morning hours of April 18, I had gone out in search of the Milky Way and returned with several images of the night sky over Marblehead. This image was taken just after the one from the edge of Fort Sewall and before the next location at Castle Rock. I had envisioned this view of stars seeming to explode in light around the great tree at Fort Sewall and found this spot at the bottom of the small hill from which to shoot it. It took a bit of work to bring out the stars while keeping light [...]
I never thought I would be able to capture the Milky Way over Marblehead. With our proximity to Boston and the amount of light pollution in the night sky, shooting the Milky Way seemed to be a task reserved for photographers in Maine or the Cape. However, after seeing some truly awesome images from last month's new moon of the Milky Way and with perfect conditions on Friday night/Saturday morning, I figured I would give it a shot. The first stop was borrowing the right lens for the task and I could not have picked a better person to reach out [...]
Watching the moon rise always involves a delicate balance of perfect timing - clear skies, agreeable work schedule, an understanding wife and kids and lack of other commitments. With that being said, I last had a chance to capture the full moon rising over Marblehead in January. On Friday night, April's pink moon was due to rise but nearly everything kept me from being able to capture it. I therefore present you the Sturgeon moon rising over Marblehead Light from a shoot in August 2012. I started off shooting the full moon from Fort Sewall and shared that image shortly [...]
On Saturday, January 24th, snow finally fell on Marblehead. It's been a Winter without snow but we finally received a nice helping of the white stuff. As I looked out the window in the morning, I noticed the snow sticking to the trees and I knew I had to make my pilgrimage to Fort Sewall. On January 18, 2009, I had captured my favorite image of Fort Sewall in the snow and had returned with almost every snowfall to see if I might be able to improve upon it. Six years later, I finally had the right conditions. I came [...]
By popular demand - an image of the full moon rise from Fort Sewall captured on July 11, 2014. When I go out to shoot, I will often return with several images that I want to share. Such was the case with the full moon rise of July 11-12. On that first night, I had hoped for a new composition of the moon rising over Chandler Hovey Park as seen from Fort Sewall and achieved that when I used the leaves of the great tree at the Fort to frame this shot. However, moments later, the Glover's Regiment began their [...]
This weekend, Glover's Regiment held their annual encampment at Fort Sewall. The timing would prove to be perfect with incredible weather throughout the weekend and a supermoon making its appearance on successive clear nights. I couldn't wait to share two images of the full moon this weekend but this image was an easy choice for next up to share. As I waited for the supermoon to rise on Friday night, I overheard some members of Glover's Regiment discussing a sunset salute. The thought of capturing a volley of musket fire over Marblehead Harbor trumped any planned images of the moon [...]
Every Summer, Glover's Regiment has an encampment at Fort Sewall with reenactments of battles between the Loyalists/Red Coats and the Regiment. It so happened that this year's encampment would take place during the Full Buck Moon. I had a few ideas in mind and so I headed out to Fort Sewall on Friday night with my family to watch a piece of Marblehead history and hoped for good conditions. The full moon rose on a beautiful warm Summer night and the timing of the rise in relation to sunset meant there were plenty of pinks and purples in the sky [...]
How about an image from almost exactly three years ago on this Tuesday morning? I had always wondered what was behind the red door at Fort Sewall and wound up finally being able to see the other side of this one two years later when the Fort was open during the annual encampment. Turns out there are some stairs leading down to parts of the Fort that are accessible behind the iron gates seen from the entrance. After imagining the secrets that lay behind these doors with incredible rust and patina, the answer was a bit of a let down...