I hadn’t been out to shoot the dawn in a month and so, when I woke at 6am on Saturday morning, I decided to head out the door and see if luck might follow me to Crocker Park. I had quickly checked the location of the rising sun and decided that Crocker offered the potential for some nice side light to illuminate the boats still moored in the harbor. I lucked out with a parking spot along Front Street and walked up to the park.
I arrived to find still waters and some nice orange light beginning to show to the left of the lighthouse. I chose my spot and captured this image at 6:24am. I adjusted my aperture and iso so that I could use a not-too-slow shutter speed of 0.8 seconds – this helped capture the subtle ripples in the water and make sure all the boats were tack sharp.
The bright green beacon atop Marblehead Light reflects perfectly in the still waters as a new day dawns in Marblehead. Stay tuned for the spectacular dawn show that followed twenty minutes later…