On a mid-July evening, a friend and I took his boat out for an evening tour of Marblehead. As the last light of day was captured by overhead clouds, we passed Marblehead Light heading into harbor. A half moon sat high in the evening sky and I quickly composed this image of our lighthouse, houses on the Neck and the Corinthian Yacht Club under the light of that moon as day turned to night.
In mid-July of 2013, a friend invited me onto his boat for a loop around Marblehead and a harbor tour as the sun set. We lucked out with great light and perfect conditions for a leisurely exploration of Marblehead from the water and I came away with some of my favorite images from this one day. In fact, there were so many opportunities for shooting that I'm still finding new images to share even four years later. Today's image comes from the last loop through Marblehead Harbor. The sun was just setting and I found myself aiming the camera at [...]
Last September, I was fortunate to witness and capture views of Marblehead harbor as fog rolled in at sunset. The result was a rapidly changing and incredibly beautiful scene that I took advantage of by shooting for almost an hour. I've shared several images from the explosive sunset that followed but, as the sun remained above the horizon, it served to turn our familiar waters into a golden harbor. The view of these boats sitting moored in their spots on still waters made for a picture perfect scene. I thought a bit of light might help push the gray morning [...]
Last week, I chased the clouds out to Chandler Hovey Park and was rewarded with a nice sunset. As the light hit its peak, three Lasers came into the harbor. Since Marblehead Junior Race Week began yesterday and continues for the next few days, I thought this image of Lasers at sunset would be a perfect one to share today.
I couldn't post yesterday's image of fireworks without immediately recalling the display of Mother Nature's fireworks on June 27th. I shared an incredible image of multiple bolts as soon as I came home but had a few more captures from that night that I had wanted to share as well. This was the last shot I took on that evening. The sun had long since set and my exposure time was getting longer. At this point I had to up the camera ISO to 1600 to keep a reasonable shutter speed of 1.3 seconds. Thankfully, it was calm that night [...]
What an incredible night and an epic lightning storm over Marblehead Harbor. I left the house a little after 7pm hoping to capture lightning from Chandler Hovey park but kept missing bolts during the first storm. As the rain pelted the Neck, I waited in my car and saw another storm heading our way on the radar. As I waited, I noted pink hues forming near the horizon and moved to a favorite spot on Corinthian Lane from where I captured a very nice sunset over the harbor. Just as the sunset light faded, the real show began and I [...]
Last weekend, I decided to head out as sunset approached hoping for a break in the clouds to help light up Marblehead harbor. As luck would have it, this was one of three sunsets in the past few weeks that have held great promise but fizzled in the end. However, before the light faded, I composed this tight shot of Abbot Hall rising above boats on their mooring with the last light of sunset creating the effect of golden water in Marblehead harbor. For every great sunset capture there are easily a dozen outings that don't quite work out. I [...]
After the past two days of perfect weather, I can't be the only waiting eagerly awaiting those warm Summer days. I decided to look through my archive of 'to be posted' images to find ones taken in April and instantly settled on this shot for today's post. On April 25, 2015, I had gone out near sunset on an equally warm night and found a single sailboat already moored in the waters. Its positioning was perfect from this angle on Parker Lane and it appeared to be the 'first one in the harbor' - or at least this part of [...]
Today's image comes from mid-February and an unusually warm day for watching and capturing frostbite sailing in Marblehead Harbor. I had been shooting the sailboats primarily from the air but switched to my camera as they grouped together and captured this shot of the boats racing by Old North Church. With this arctic blast of cold in the third week of March, I don't think I'm alone in looking for reminders that Spring should be here soon and with it more boats in the water.
This sunset image of the working boats of Marblehead harbor seemed like a fitting way to head into the long weekend. As the days grow longer and after this January thaw, Spring suddenly doesn't seem so far away. This image was taken on April 12, 2016 at 7:20pm as the sunset gave up its last rays of light to illuminate the sky and the working boats of Marblehead harbor floated on the still waters. From now until late April, these boats will remain the sole denizens of our harbor and then each mooring will begin to fill with pleasure boats [...]