On December 17, I headed out of the house before dawn in hopes of capturing the moon setting over the Marblehead skyline. I had missed the chance to photograph the moonrise the night before and was excited about the prediction of clear skies and cold temperatures for the next morning. There was a small chance for sea smoke inside Marblehead Harbor and I could only imagine what that might look like with familiar buildings above a layer of sea smoke with the moon setting above.
Sadly, the temperatures weren’t cold enough for sea smoke. I did however manage to capture the moon set as the dawn broke. After the moon had set, the sky took on a great blue-purple hue and the skyline came into incredible clarity with the angle of the rising sun. I captured what appeared to me as a perfect morning looking out over the Marblehead skyline with the familiar point of Abbot Hall.
I decided to remove the empty buoys in the harbor as the final image seemed much cleaner and crisper without them there. Hope you agree.
