When we moved into our rental house on Willow Street in May 2008, we had no way of knowing the friends we would make just one door down. Our neighbors would become surrogate grandparents to our then very young children and were more than happy to take us out on their boat when conditions were favorable. Such was the case in early August when we went sailing on a perfect Summer day.
As this was one of my first outings on a boat, I was preoccupied with capturing images of Marblehead from the water. I had shot for much of our journey out of Marblehead harbor and then lined up this view looking back at the town when I spotted a sailboat coming into my composition. I tried to time the shot so that all elements lined up – Marblehead Light, the sailboat and Abbot Hall in the distance. As luck would have it, I caught Abbot Hall between the sails of the boat as it crossed in front of us.