So this was where I was headed on Fathers Day and why I had spent some time on Nahant Street to capture the sunset shared yesterday.  I’ve been to the ‘secret beach’ on Cove Lane several times but felt that I had not fully explored the possible compositions there previously.

The sunset had started to fade at this point and the angles for shooting the setting sun and the secret beach were few.  I spent some time capturing the view of Marblehead Light (and I would return to this exact spot the following day to capture the aurora borealis as it turned out).

As I walked back up to Cove Lane, I looked back and saw this possible composition.  I had to put the camera in a vertical orientation and shoot a 9-image panorama to take in the full scene but the final image allowed me to include the full span of the secret beach at Cove Lane, Marblehead Light, a few boats in the harbor and the crescent moon just visible over trees to the left (there is also an American flag waving between the trees).

Now, if I could just find someone with a 15 foot wall who is looking to hang this on…