A String of LIghts on Marblehead Light

For today's image, I decided to look into my 'to be published' archive and focus on images captured in the month of December. I found this one of a string of lights on Marblehead Light from December 18, 2011 and it instantly put me in the mood for celebrating the upcoming holiday. Each year, lights are strung from atop the lighthouse adding a festive touch to Chandler Hovey Park. I was fortunate to join the crew stringing lights one year and was amazed by their heft. As these original incandescent lights have started to lose their luster and give out [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-12-07T22:30:25-05:00December 8th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, holiday, lighthouse|0 Comments

Casting its Light – Marblehead Lighthouse

Not long after the supermoon rose on November 13th, it reached a height and brightness which offered little in the way of compositions. Instead of chasing the moon, I focused instead on the intense golden glow reflecting in the still waters of Marblehead Harbor. I repositioned as the moon rapidly ascended and reached this point at which the moon was casting its light directly over Marblehead Light. Without the moon in the frame, the viewer is left with a surreal display of the lighthouse seeming to cast a golden light onto the waters below with the green beacon clearly visible [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-27T22:25:28-05:00November 28th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: lighthouse, reflection|4 Comments

Old Glory on Chandler Hovey Park

I shared an image yesterday of Marblehead Light reflecting in rainwater after a storm passed through Marblehead. Having captured that image, I wandered around the puddle of water looking for other reflections when I spotted Old Glory at half mast and perfectly balanced with its reflection in the water. I again decided on a square crop to help the inherent symmetry of the image. Thankfully, there was just enough wind to set the flag waving but not enough to disrupt the mirror like surface of the rainwater. I had never looked up the history of the term Old Glory before [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:31-05:00June 9th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: American flag, Chandler Hovey park, reflection|0 Comments

Light Between Storms

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 [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:31-05:00June 8th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, clouds, lighthouse, reflection|11 Comments

The Shores of Chandler Hovey

As I looked through the archive to find yesterday's image of a warm Summer sunset, I couldn't help finding enough images to fill this week's posts. As my full time job as an Allergist hits its busiest week with birch and oak pollen likely to hit seasonal highs, I thought I would continue with images from the archives and resign myself to leaving the camera in the bag this week. Today's image comes from May 2012 and a visit to Chandler Hovey Park on a foggy day. I had been shooting a lot of long exposure images and decided to [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:32-05:00May 17th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: black and white, Chandler Hovey park, long exposure|0 Comments

Days End at Marblehead Light

In mid-May of 2013, I headed to Chandler Hovey Park in hopes of capturing some nice color to marks the days end. The clouds had built up during the day but a small clearing formed at the horizon just as the sun set. Almost as soon as I had put the car in park, I was out and getting my camera on the tripod to shoot the incredible sunset light that seemed to be exploding from the base of Marblehead Light and marking the days end (or is it day's end?). I shared a horizontal composition of this shot shortly after [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-04-15T16:56:07-04:00April 11th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, sunset|0 Comments

Sea Smoke – Arctic Morning in Marblehead

The sea smoke was an incredible sight to behold on this arctic morning in Marblehead - going out in 7F (without the windshield) definitely paid off. When I first saw the projected temperatures of single digits for this morning, my first thought was that I would finally have a chance to replicate and improve upon my favorite image of sea smoke from 2012. That was the first year I had witnessed this phenomenon of arctic air over a relatively warm ocean creating billowing smoke on the water. With that vision in mind, I bundled up and headed to Fort Sewall [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:49-05:00January 5th, 2016|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: dawn, lighthouse, sea smoke|0 Comments

Iron and Granite

It's been a while since I last shared a black and white image of Marblehead on this site. In mid-September, I had rented a super wide angle lens from Canon and went about exploring new compositions and vantage points in town to take full advantage of my short week with the lens. On this day, I had chased the clouds throughout Marblehead and ended up at Chandler Hovey Park. I had just worked on a few shots of Marblehead Light with a sunstar erupting beside it and then hiked down to explore the possibilities from the granite edge of the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:57-05:00October 22nd, 2015|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: black and white, lighthouse|0 Comments

Sunstar at Marblehead Light

So the theme for the week seems to be ultra wide shots taken with the new Canon 11-24mm lens I received on loan for the week. Right after capturing the facade of the new Glover School, I headed out to Chandler Hovey Park with a few compositions in mind. I had heard that the Canon 11-24mm was capable of producing beautiful sunstars with 18-points and so I found this spot from which I could include all of Marblehead Light in the frame. I positioned the camera just on the edge of the shadow so that the sun abutted the lighthouse. This [...]

By Eyal Oren|2015-09-16T07:20:53-04:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, sun star|0 Comments

Turn to Clear Vision

Another image from my weekend chase of the supermoon rising and setting over Marblehead. With the superzoom on my camera to help me get a close up view of the moon, I tried to find new items to explore at Chandler Hovey Park. One that immediately came to mind with the binocular aimed toward Abbot Hall and Marblehead harbor. With the zoom extended out to about 300mm and using a wide open aperture, I was able to isolate objects and push much of the background to a subtle blur. I composed this image to include the binoculars as well as [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:00-05:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park|0 Comments