After photographing dawn from Hammond Park last Wednesday, I decided to drive out to Doaks Lane and shoot Gerry Island as well as the houses that line Little Harbor. If you have followed this site for a while, you will likely recognize this composition. I have shared some long exposures taken at sunset from this vantage point but never thought to photograph at sunrise. It turns out that the sun was coming up at just the right angle to bathe these houses in great light. The image needed amazingly little work at the computer apart from removing one wayward […]
Long Exposure – Reflections on Little Harbor
In February 2012, I was just starting to get the hang of these long exposure images. On this particular day, I had gone out in hopes of capturing Gerry Island at sunset. While I started to photograph the island and little harbor surrounding it, my eye quickly latched on to the collection of houses along Fort Sewall Terrace that faced the harbor. As the sun began to set, the colors in the sky took hold and I started to shoot longer and longer exposures in the fading light. I had previously shared an image with the houses reflecting in […]
A Puffin? In Marblehead?!
On Tuesday, a fan of my site asked if I ever photographed wildlife – especially birds. I admitted that I had never been interested in shooting birds – it is an incredibly challenging (and expensive) branch of photography that requires inordinate patience. Then he mentioned that he had seen a puffin in Little Harbor and I quickly changed my tune. A puffin? In Marblehead?!?! This was too good to be true I thought. I was told that he seemed to appear with some regularity at mid-tide. The fan had been doubtful as well but noted that he definitely moved […]
Long Exposure – The Tree and the Harbor
This image is a year old and has been hanging in my office for just about that long but I just realized that I have never shared it here. In early January 2012 (the same day as my color image of this scene from the end of Doak’s Lane), I made this image that was intended as a square crop. The color photo from sunset remains one of my favorites but this black and white is a close second. I […]
