The Road Curves

As small as Marblehead is, it still amazes me when I notice small scenes that seem like they belong somewhere else rather than in this New England town. This black and white image of the canopy of snow covered trees was captured on the same day as yesterday's shot of Old Town House. I had driven up towards Beacon Street after exploring downtown Marblehead and parked my car facing this section where the road curves and climbs a small hill under a canopy of trees. The scene would be as likely in Vermont or Colorado as steps away from Grace [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-04-03T22:12:10-04:00April 4th, 2018|Categories: Snow|Tags: Beacon Street, black and white, snow, trees|23 Comments

A River Runs Through It

This is just about the exact opposite of yesterday's image of Abbot Hall with brilliant red foliage. I had gone out for a second time at 5:00pm hoping the early evening light would help with what little foliage was to be found. I flew my Phantom 4 Pro out from Riverhead Beach to mid-harbor and then came back and over the causeway headed for Goldthwait Reservation. I wondered what a direct aerial image of the marsh might look like and was not disappointed with the views. I flew over the marsh for a while exploring the patterns below. From above, [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-10-22T22:03:38-04:00October 24th, 2017|Categories: Aerial|Tags: aerial, black and white, drone, Goldthwait, Phantom 4 Pro|0 Comments

Weathered by Time

I captured today's image at the end of June but have been staring at the color version of it for a while wondering why I hadn't bothered to share it. Last week, as I converted another image to black and white, I decided to do the same with this image of a tree weathered by time and flanked by benches on Chandler Hovey Park. The black and white served to accentuate the textures in the tree, bench and sky while helping with the too bright light of this pre-sunset image.

By Eyal Oren|2017-09-17T20:39:42-04:00September 19th, 2017|Categories: Marblehead Neck|Tags: bench, black and white, Chandler Hovey park, dramatic sky, tree|6 Comments

Walking in Marblehead

On Thursday, August 3rd, I rushed back to Marblehead from my office to take part in my very first Marblehead Walking Tour with Bette Hunt. Though I have lived in Marblehead since 2008 and have met Bette Hunt on a few occasions, the timing of her walking tours never quite matched up with my schedule. As this was the last one of the Summer season, I made it a point to get there on time. We started in front of the Jeremiah Lee mansion and then walked as a group down Hooper Street, through Crocker Park and along Front Street. [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-09-11T21:08:58-04:00September 12th, 2017|Categories: Old Town|Tags: American flag, black and white, historic downtown, house|12 Comments

Best of Show – Marblehead Festival of Arts

I am thrilled and humbled to announce that one of my entries 'In a Fog on State Street' has been awarded Best of Show at the 2017 Marblehead Festival of Arts. Both this image and 'Light Dawns on Marblehead' will be on display at Old Town House beginning on Friday, June 30th after the awards ceremony at Abbot Hall. The photography display ends on Tuesday, July 4th. This year's entry was the third in a series of black and white fog landscapes in Marblehead that began with 'A Walk in the Fog' which won Best of Show at the 2012 [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-06-24T16:54:29-04:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: Favorite|Tags: Best of Show, black and white, fog, people, State Street|42 Comments

Milky Water and the Lights of the Causeway

It's 'Marblehead Causeway' week on Wednesdays in Marblehead. Since we are firmly in 'stick season' in between the beauty of Winter and the warmth of Spring, I thought I would visit my 'to be posted' archive and decided to share five very different images of our causeway. Today's image comes from May 2012 and a time when I was exploring long exposure images and doing much more black and white work. This one combined both having been shot on the Neck side of the causeway looking back toward Riverhead beach. The 20 second exposure smoothed the water of the harbor [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-03-26T14:05:18-04:00March 27th, 2017|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, causeway, long exposure|0 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

The Grandstand at Seaside Park

In May 2014, I was still getting the hang of capturing these black and white infrared images when I drove by Seaside Park and had to stop and take a few shots. I had quickly learned that foliage against blue skies made for a great combination in infrared and this scene before me offered the best of both. Though the bases had not yet been placed in position, the grandstand at Seaside Park stood perfectly centered in its dark wood color amidst a sea of foliage that shone white in this final image. The grass similarly glowed and was broken [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:34-05:00April 19th, 2016|Categories: Infrared|Tags: baseball, black and white, infrared, Seaside park|0 Comments

Leaves Aglow in Doliber’s Cove

In 2014, I sent my older camera to be modified so that it could shoot infrared images. The benefit of this is that foliage reflects infrared while a deep blue sky (and ocean) absorbs this wavelength of light. Once the infrared images are converted to black and white, the result can be a dramatic image that is not possible to achieve with an unmodified camera. For a while, I was shooting more black and white and sharing those images quite regularly. It was only when I dove into my archive that I found a collection of infrared black and white [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:34-05:00April 12th, 2016|Categories: Little Harbor|Tags: black and white, Brown's island, Doliber cove, infrared|0 Comments

A Snow Lined Road to Gerry Island

This image of a snow lined road leading to Gerry Island comes from another January snow storm - this time January 16, 2013. Again, a morning snow storm allowed me to go out and capture the falling snow at a few locations around town. When I realized it was low tide, I made it a point to head to Gerry Island hoping for this composition. The road to Gerry Island appears at low tide but capturing snow on the path requires the snow storm to have minimal wind and waves. Such was not the case for the storm that just [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:46-05:00January 26th, 2016|Categories: Snow|Tags: black and white, Gerry island, snow|0 Comments

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