This image has been waiting in the ‘to be posted’ folder since a birthday shoot on February 19th. I had shared another image from that sunrise several months ago but kept this long exposure one ‘in the queue’ until now.
This long exposure image was taken 15 minutes before the other image (with that one showing the sun rising above Marblehead Neck). In this one, I decided to focus on the intense color coming from the red sunrise and allow the water to smooth with the five second exposure […]
The 2013 Marblehead High School Senior carnival came into town on Thursday and, as is always the case, brought with it cold and a bit of rain to break up the warm Spring days we had been enjoying up til then. The weather improved over the weekend and the carnival seemed better attended than recent years. I had little opportunity to shoot without my kids clamoring for cash but managed a sunrise session and one evening shoot.
This image was taken on Saturday night. I had arrived at 7pm and ended up parking behind Dennis Curtin and Rick Ashley (two great photographers […]
On this Long Exposure Tuesday, I decided to share an image taken in early April 2012. This was an exceptionally warm day (hard to believe with the weather we’ve had so far this month) and I ended up wandering up and down the harbor’s edge hoping to shoot under and around the piers that line the water. I ended up at the Corinthian near the end of my shoot and noted the way their dock lined up with Abbot Hall in the distance.
As I got closer, I found this great old mooring somehow cemented in the rocks and decided […]
So this has to be one of my favorite trees in Marblehead. There is something about the odd bend in it and its location on the edge of the ocean that makes it instantly appealing. I had struggled with compositions to highlight those characteristics until January 2012 when some great clouds rolled around. As I made my way around town photographing various scenes, I drove along Beacon Street and spotted the tree against the backdrop of those clouds. I pulled over and put on my longest lens to make sure I could get the tree as the focal point […]
