Brown’s Early Light

One of the more incredible dawns I have experienced took shape over Marblehead on Thursday, January 19 and I finally was able to get the 150 captures down to 7 keepers to process and share. As I did before, I'm going to share them as a group on social media and daily on my website. now the real dilemma - is January best represented by snow or one of these captures with unbelievable light??? A bit of backstory, I received an email a few months ago inviting me to shoot from the highest spot at Peach's Point. I was thrilled [...]

By Eyal Oren|2023-01-28T08:07:07-05:00January 25th, 2023|Categories: Island|Tags: Brown's island, dawn|0 Comments

Bench Under the Light of the Moon

And here is the last of five images captured on Sunday, November 6th. This is the image I had in mind when I left the house (though I planned on getting the moon rising lower and to the left of Brown's Island). When the moon failed to appear, I pivoted and captured an unexpectedly amazing sunset. But when that sunset faded, I walked down Beacon and found the moon finally exiting the clouds. I captured this image of it making sure to include Brown's Island and the hints of fall color. It wasn't until my daughter came into my office [...]

By Eyal Oren|2022-11-09T20:39:29-05:00November 11th, 2022|Categories: Island|Tags: Brown's island, foliage, moonrise|0 Comments

A Little Sunset Light

So this is the zoomed in view taken 30 seconds or so after yesterday's wider version. I still can't decide which I prefer...

By Eyal Oren|2022-11-09T20:33:44-05:00November 10th, 2022|Categories: Island|Tags: Brown's island, lighthouse, sunset|0 Comments

Reflected Light in Dolber’s Cove

The clouds continued to move on Sunday as I took in the scene at Grace Oliver Beach and I headed back up Crowninshield Road for this shot of Brown's Island and Marblehead Light. There was just enough fall color on Brown's to make it clear this image was captured in early November. I was torn between the wider shot you see here and a tighter one taken 25 seconds later that I'll share tomorrow. I really liked the few rocks in the foreground and the purple clouds that made it into this frame.

By Eyal Oren|2022-11-09T06:41:13-05:00November 9th, 2022|Categories: Island, Little Harbor|Tags: Brown's island, Doliber cove, sunset|0 Comments

Above the Smoke

Continuing with the morning of January 15th, when the sun rose behind Tinker's Island it created incredible backlight on the smoke rising from the Atlantic Ocean. Once the sun had risen high enough in the sky, I tried to capture more images of the smoke coming off of each wave as it approached the shore. Here I lucked out with a lone bird whose feathers are backlit by the risen sun.

By Eyal Oren|2022-01-23T20:50:42-05:00January 26th, 2022|Categories: Island|Tags: bird, sea smoke, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Arctic Sunrise over Tinkers Island

What a morning - and I thought it was cold on Tuesday... So on Tuesday the 11th, I had gone out before work to capture sea smoke and found just a hint of it to be found from along Front Street. With this morning's projected temperatures to be even lower, I thought I had a better chance despite the predictions for high winds. This time I headed for Devereux Beach knowing that the sun would rise over Tinker's Island and serve to backlight the rising steam from the Atlantic ocean. I arrived at 7am and dound some really nice sea [...]

By Eyal Oren|2022-01-15T09:40:53-05:00January 15th, 2022|Categories: Island|Tags: sea smoke, sunrise, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Reflections at Browns Island

On October 20, I had walked across at low tide to Brown's Island chasing after a moonrise and ended up lucking out with an amazing sunset. On the way back, I had to stop when I noticed this section of still water serving to reflect the fainter sunset to the west.

By Eyal Oren|2021-11-09T06:27:22-05:00November 9th, 2021|Categories: Island|Tags: Brown's island, reflection, sunset|0 Comments

Cloudy with a Chance of Tinkers

This may well be the single worst title I have every come up with for a post in the nearly 10 years of Wednesdays in Marblehead. I'm not sure if it's the quarantine or the fact that no one could tell me what type of clouds these were (stratocumulus???). In any event, if you audibly groaned at the title, you have my apologies. What's a bit more interesting is that I've held off posting this shot since I captured it on May 12, 2015. I looked back to its spot in my catalogue and immediately remembered the night from the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2020-04-27T21:52:56-04:00April 28th, 2020|Categories: Island|Tags: clouds, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Fall Color on Brown’s Island

After capturing yesterday's image of the last regatta of the year at Redd's Pond, I drove down Norman Street. I had spotted some nice fall color on Brown's island a few days prior and, with the recent storm, wondered if any foliage remained. Sure enough, some bright orange leaves could be seen adding a touch of color to the large island in Little Harbor. This is likely my last chance to shoot any foliage in town as the trees have not fared well this year with the severe fall storms.

By Eyal Oren|2019-10-21T22:23:46-04:00October 22nd, 2019|Categories: Island|Tags: Brown's island, Fall, foliage, Little Harbor|2 Comments

Rusted Rail on Gerry Island

On July 18, 2015 I walked across the low tide land bridge to Gerry Island and explored the rocky edges as the sun slowly set. I stopped at this rusted rail that appeared to have broken off and fallen. I imagine it once helped mark a path around the island but had fallen from a Nor'Easter long since forgotten.

By Eyal Oren|2019-06-23T12:58:12-04:00June 26th, 2019|Categories: Island|Tags: Gerry island|3 Comments