It’s been a while since I last shared a black and white image of Marblehead on this site. In mid-September, I had rented a super wide angle lens from Canon and went about exploring new compositions and vantage points in town to take full advantage of my short week with the lens.
On this day, I had chased the clouds throughout Marblehead and ended up at Chandler Hovey Park. I had just worked on a few shots of Marblehead Light with a sunstar erupting beside it and then hiked down to explore the possibilities from the granite edge of the park. I don’t believe I have ever shot from this angle before as my lenses would have distorted the view of Marblehead Light. With this wide angle, I was able to capture the full height of the iron structure without causing any distortion. Black and white seemed a perfect match for the juxtaposition of iron and granite seen at Chandler Hovey park.