Red Glow at Night

I spent a few hours on Columbus Day going through photos from recent outings and making final decisions on those that needed to be processed vs those that would be deleted. As I looked through the set of images from September 23rd and that epic sunset over Marblehead Harbor, I found a few new keepers that I had overlooked the first time around. This image was taken near the end of the evening when the sky shifted to a deep red glow that washed over the waters of Marblehead Harbor. I composed the shot to include a cropping of boats [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-10-08T20:12:26-04:00October 10th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, red sky, sunset|13 Comments

Mid-Harbor Glow

On Friday night, I returned home from work to find some promising clouds over the harbor and headed out before dinner to see about capturing some nice light. I drove to the lighthouse and then came back down to this spot just past the causeway on Marblehead Neck from which I had a few compositions to choose from. I spent most of my time shooting with Abbot Hall in the frame but, as the sun dipped lower, I spotted the reflecting light of one boat's windows and adjusted to this mid-harbor view to capture that pop of light on an [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-10-08T20:08:10-04:00October 9th, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor|2 Comments

Last Days of Summer in Marblehead

As the nights turn cool, I wanted to take a look back at the last days of summer in Marblehead and found this shot captured from Brown's Island looking back toward town. I had gone out to Brown's with my kids and met up with friends to enjoy a picture perfect Labor Day. At one point, we made our way to the tree swing and I took a few shots of my daughter swinging before turning towards this view. The juxtaposition of Abbot Hall and Old North Church makes for a great scene and the addition of boats moored in [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-30T23:11:04-04:00October 1st, 2018|Categories: Island|Tags: Abbot Hall, boats, Brown's island, people|2 Comments

Explosion of Light

A lot can happen in two minutes... That was the duration of time between Tuesday's post and today's image capturing the peak of the afterglow. At this point the sky erupted in an explosion of light with brilliant oranges washing the sky and reflecting in the water of Marblehead Harbor. The light hit its peak one minute later with the first shot I shared on that Sunday night. Hope you enjoyed the week of sunset images (and the extended afterglow) as much as I did taking them.

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-25T20:39:41-04:00September 27th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, dramatic sky, Marblehead Harbor, sunset|2 Comments

Afterglow – Red Sky at Night

This is the last image I took on Sunday night as the afterglow finally faded (twenty minutes after the sun had set!). The oranges had shifted to a deep red sky and I had scrambled up the steps leading back to Peabody Lane. From the higher vantage point I was able to include a nearby dock and a view of the harbor filled with boats on this late September evening. I had pointed to a site in yesterday's post to share some information on how a sunset afterglow forms. In it, they comment on some of the qualities of a [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-25T20:49:06-04:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, Peabody Lane, red sky, sunset|14 Comments

A Touch of Color

I'm sure by now your Facebook and/or Instagram feeds have been filled with photos of Sunday's epic sunset. The light truly was exceptional and I raced around the beach at the end of Peabody Lane (a public way) exploring various compositions. Immediately after the sun set, the afterglow began adding a touch of color to the high clouds overhead. I received a nice comment on my original post Sunday night pointing to a great resource about sunset colors. There they show an example of a red-orange afterglow such as this and explain it is produced by a thick aerosol cloud [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-24T21:22:59-04:00September 25th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: Abbot Hall, boats, dramatic sky, Marblehead Harbor, orange, sunset|8 Comments

J70 and the Start of the Sunset

I shared an image of the peak of sunset light from Peabody Lane last night and promised many more images from this outing on Sunday night. As the sun began to descend in the sky and the clouds broke just right, twin spots of golden light appeared low in the evening sky. I set up this composition and then spotted a J70 gliding through the harbor. I waited until it came into a nice spot and captured this image. If you weren't aware, the J70 World Championship begins today in the waters off Marblehead. Racing continues all week long.

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-23T22:33:16-04:00September 24th, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, Peabody Lane, sunset|7 Comments

Epic Light from Peabody Lane

What an incredible sunset! I had my eye on the clouds for most of the afternoon and had a gut feeling that the clouds might break just right for a solid sunset. Having not shot much in the past few weeks, the timing seemed to work out to get out and see about capturing some new scenes in Marblehead. I drove across the causeway onto Marblehead Neck and over to Peabody Lane where I set up along the rocks on the beach. I started to shoot as the sun lowered and was fairly pleased with early shots until the sun [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-23T20:07:19-04:00September 23rd, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead Neck, Peabody Lane, sunset|50 Comments

Reflections of a Full Harbor

On Monday, I shared an image of pre-sunset light bathing Marblehead Harbor in a soft gold. I had captured the shot from the Dolphin Yacht Club just as our dinner was brought out to the balcony. Upon seeing that light (and with two plates not yet out), I excused myself and headed down to the water for a few more quick shots. As it turned out, the light quickly disappeared as the sun hid behind cloud cover but the still water of the harbor created some really nice reflections. I shot a tight crop and a wide angle view of [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-12T20:10:59-04:00September 13th, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, reflection|6 Comments

Sunset Colors at the Dolphin Yacht Club

On Friday evening, we decided to go to the Dolphin Yacht Club for dinner before going to the high school for the first football game of the season. I had brought my camera bag with me in large part to take photos of my kids near the water before the game and was glad I had done so when a break in the clouds allowed the sun to wash Marblehead Harbor in beautiful sunset colors. The light almost perfectly covered the rows upon rows of boats moored in the harbor and I was able to pull up the shadows in [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-09T17:05:40-04:00September 10th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Dolphin yacht club, Marblehead Harbor, sunset|14 Comments