Back to Crocker Park and that great dawn of August 3rd. I shared two other images from Crocker Park taken this morning. This one came about after both of those when I walked down the steps to the bridge connecting the Crocker Park float in Marblehead harbor to the stairs and mainland. The waters were calm and the light great making for a very serene morning scene. Only a few more weeks to enjoy the float and the waters in town.
It seems as though we have had some incredibly varied sunsets this Summer and this image taken from a particularly nice one in late July is no exception. I shared an image from near the end of the good light focusing on Abbot Hall previously [LINK]. The great thing about these Summer sunsets is that they seem to last forever (even long after the sun has dipped below the horizon) and, depending on cloud cover, the colors can be truly spectacular. I moved all around the pier at the Pleon Yacht Club on this particular evening trying different compositions. This [...]
On Tuesday, July 30th, we headed out on the Hannah Glover to Children's Island where my son was spending two weeks at camp. This was the session's Family Night and I made sure to bring my camera for the ride there and back. It seems that I am always greeted with great clouds on the few occasions when we head over to Children's Island and this time was no different. As we made our way out of Marblehead Harbor, I noted the American Flag on the back of the Hannah Glover and tried to include it with compositions of Abbot [...]
This image comes from a boat ride in and around Marblehead Harbor taken on July 16th. We had incredible light and my friend was more than happy to chase that light with me as we cruised the waters surrounding this incredible town and eventually found our way into Marblehead Harbor. For anyone who hasn't taken a boat into our harbor, it is an obstacle course of incredible boats of many shapes, sizes and styles. As we approached Abbot Hall, I spotted these J105s and quickly grabbed this image. Between the boats sharing the same style, the great clouds reflecting early [...]
Here is another image from the boat tour around Marblehead that took place on July 16th. By now we had made our way into Marblehead harbor and the light was really picking up. As we motored past the Corinthian yacht club, I spied this sailboat coming up. I decided to frame the shot so that the boat would show up in the bottom third of the frame and had to fire off a number of shots and hope that I got the shot as I had wanted. It turns out that it is much harder to shoot on a moving [...]
On July 16, a friend took me out on his boat for a two hour excursion around the waters of Marblehead. I have only shared one image from that trip thus far (there are 15 more after today's post left to go). For today's image, I decided to follow up on yesterday's calm reflected sunset view with this brighter and bolder view of a sunset from the water. We had made our way around Naugus Head and Fluen Point and then crossed over to explore the back of Tinkers before heading out to Bakers Island. As we made our way [...]
On Monday, July 29th, I drove home from work in the sunniest rainstorm I can remember. The whole way (all 3 miles of it), I wondered if 5:30pm was too early for a proper rainbow to form. As I dipped down Lafayette street and made my way toward the Welcome to Marblehead sign, I got my answer in the form of a bright sharp rainbow over Salem harbor. With that, I called ahead and pleaded with my wife for a quick photo shoot. I had just enough time to grab my camera and head toward Marblehead Harbor. I tried to [...]
On Wednesday morning, I headed out to drop off a framed print for a customer and then made my way out to the Pleon Yacht Club in hopes of catching the Optis heading out as part of Marblehead Junior Race Week. I got there in time to catch one of the last groups heading out and took some images with Abbot Hall and Marblehead Lighthouse as backdrops. As I was getting set to go, Dan Tucker (check out his great photography here LINK) offered to take me out and get a close up view of the action. I quickly jumped [...]
On June 12th, I woke early and decided to head down to Hammond Park for sunrise. I arrived near the end of the blue hour and quickly went about capturing images of Marblehead Harbor filled with boats and the lighthouse with its green light on. I tried a number of compositions and varied shutter speeds but this image ended up as my favorite. Shortly after this image, there was a pause of 20 minutes during which the rain picked up and I huddled in the car waiting for a sunrise. It turned out to be worth the wait and 'Four [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, I have now shared 700 images of Marblehead since starring this project in August 2010. I decided to go through my published and 'to be posted' images over the weekend to reflect on that and found this lone sailboat in Marblehead harbor. This image was taken on July 28, 2012 and I remember going out that day because some mid-day fog had begun to roll in. This was taken at noon and the fog at that point had been alternating between pea soup and atmospheric or moody. As I happened upon the lone sailboat, the light [...]