As the days get shorter, the weather cooler and Marblehead harbor begins to empty, I can’t help but bring out a photo from a foggy Summer day in 2012. I had gone out on this fog filled day hoping to capture images of boats in Marblehead harbor surrounded by the atmospheric fog. I had envisioned shots of boats with the thick fog serving to hide any signs of houses across the shore.
What I found when I arrived on Marblehead Neck was a more perfect scene than I imagined. The houses across the shore had indeed disappeared in the fog but Abbot Hall now seemed to rise out of the low lying clouds. The clarity of the boats in the harbor and Abbot Hall rising above the fog made for a picture perfect scene on that warm Summer day.