Marblehead Lighthouse Aglow in the Colors of Sunset

On Saturday, I remember feeling as if weeks had passed since I last went out to take a landscape image.  When I looked back at my archive, the real answer was that only 6 days had passed.  That being said, my last sunset was 12 days ago…okay, maybe I need help.

With that feeling of a need to go out again, I looked out my bedroom window at 7pm and noted some nice clouds and light forming.  I ‘convinced’ the kids to watch just a bit of TV til I got home and got a knowing nod from my wife […]

By |May 20, 2013|Sunset|0 Comments

First Sailboat in the Harbor

On April 25th, I headed out to Crocker Park to capture the pink moon rising over the harbor.  On the way, I had stopped to capture a beautiful cherry blossom on Mugford street (posting that one tomorrow) and I still arrived a bit early.  Though the sunset was fairly muted with the lack of interesting clouds, the novelty of a single sailboat in the harbor convinced me to grab this image.

I do like the reflected light off the houses that line Chandler Hovey Park.  Just wish the lighthouse had been lit at the time…

Purple Dawn Over an Empty Harbor

Last week, I shared images of turquoise waters all taken on the prior Wednesday in Marblehead.  I thought I would start this week in a similar way with this image taken last Wednesday at dawn.

I had woken at 5:30am on this particular morning and promptly looked out the window and at the weather radar to try to discern if there were any clouds near the horizon.  I couldn’t tell and decided to bundle up (it was in the 20′s on this early April morning) and head out in hopes of decent clouds and light.  Without much to go on […]

By |April 8, 2013|Sunrise|0 Comments

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 […]