After capturing images at Chandler Hovey Park, I drove across the causeway and then through town trying to find a spot from which I could capture the cumulous clouds over Marblehead harbor. I made my way into historic downtown and then down State Street to the Landing. Once there, I headed down to one of the docks and began composing shots but wasn’t thrilled with the results.
I had seen the large Open sign and the American flag above it on the dock that serves as a gas station before but never tried to walk down to that spot. With the clouds perfectly placed over the harbor, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. I made my way past a ‘proceed at your own risk’ sign and down to the water’s edge. As before, the wind was blowing enough to set both flags flying. I started off shooting back towards the Landing but then noted this view as I began to make my way back.
With the two flags billowing in the wind, boats on their moorings and cumulous clouds breaking up the perfect blue sky, I couldn’t have asked for a better shot to proclaim that Marblehead Harbor is Open for the Season.