From the Rooftops Thursday is back with a vengeance after yesterday’s morning climb to the top of Marblehead Light!
For the past four years, I have been trying to find a way to the top of our lighthouse but the timing never seemed to work out. Twice a year, the Rotary Club and volunteers string red, white and blue lights from the top of the lighthouse and I had hoped to join them but work kept getting in the way. And so, when I received a text message from Jack at All Marblehead to set up a time for hanging the lights for the Fourth of July, everything seemed to have finally fallen into place.
We met at 8:30am at Chandler Hovey Park and proceeded to climb 105 feet to the top. The climb was tougher than I had imagined with a very narrow spiral staircase winding to the top. Once there, I found near perfect conditions with partially cloudy skies, a harbor filled with boats and little wind to contend with. I set to work finding compositions of the top of Marblehead Light as well as of Chandler Hovey Park and Marblehead Harbor beyond.
At one point, the sun rose above the clouds and the shadow of the lighthouse became quite prominent. I had to change to a vertical orientation in order to capture the full height of the lighthouse’s shadow while keeping the harbor and distant shore in the frame. At one point, one of the volunteers walked by and her shadow stood in perfect contrast to that formed by Marblehead Light. I knew that this would be the first image to be shared from this ‘from the rooftops’ view from atop Marblehead Light.