On Saturday night, I watched the clouds form and break and scouted out the various webcams pointed at Marblehead Harbor until I finally decided to get up and hope for a good sunset. I grabbed my camera as well as the Phantom 4 Pro with a specific location in mind.
I drove across the causeway looking in my rearview mirror still unsure which way the sunset would go and parked along Foster Street in front of the Eastern Yacht Club. There I was greeted by the sounds of a steel drum band and learned that an engagement party was taking place. I set up my camera with a shot in mind of the sunset cannon under the flagpole and then went about launching the Phantom 4 Pro to explore some scenes of the harbor as I waited.
The first thing that struck me when the drone reached altitude was all the boats in the harbor. It was only three weeks ago that I flew over a nearly empty harbor and now there were boats as far as the eye could see. I decided to compose this shot to include Marblehead as well as the Boston skyline as the best of that evening’s light created a soft glow on the still water.
The sunset ended up fizzling but I did grab a nice shot of the newly engaged couple firing the sunset cannon (not the shot I expected) and was happy with this aerial view of boats in the harbor signaling that Summer can’t be very far away…