We had the first real Summer storms pass through Marblehead yesterday with near torrential rains at one point in the afternoon and a bit of thunder and lightning later in the evening. As the first wave of storms passed, I headed out to Chandler Hovey Park hoping to catch a view of Marblehead Light between storms. With the amount of rain that fell, I had a feeling that rainwater would have collected in a familiar spot along the path to the lighthouse.
Sure enough, there was enough rainwater with which I could capture reflections of Marblehead Light and I explored a few compositions as clouds passed behind the lighthouse and added an extra dimension to the scene. I ended up finding this shot to be a quick favorite and decided on a square crop to help highlight the symmetry and reflections.
This may be one of the only times in which I have not cloned out the electric cable leading to the lighthouse. I do not clone elements out of scenes lightly but this cable has always bothered me since it is not original to the lighthouse and often serves to detract from the image. In this case, it added one more point of symmetry and reflection in the collected rainwater. I’m curious what you think of the cable in this image and my removal of it in others.