October Sky over the Causeway

Yesterday began with fog then rain and stayed grey for much of the day. As the sun began to dip lower in the sky, the clouds broke up and I thought there might be a chance for a decent sunset. I had missed a few good ones lately so I made up my mind to head out. I stopped at a number of locations including Rocket Landing off Village Street, Parker Lane on the Neck and a few other old favorites before circling back and stopping at Devereux Beach. I looked up as I got out of the car and [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:58-05:00October 14th, 2015|Categories: Sunset|Tags: causeway, lamp post, Marblehead Neck, sunset|0 Comments

Clouds over the Causeway

I mentioned in Monday's post that I had gone out last Tuesday and found great cloud structures from this vantage point along the causeway connecting Marblehead and the Neck. My widest lens couldn't do justice to the beautiful clouds that stretched across the horizon so I turned the camera to a vertical orientation and shot 18 frames to form a panorama. The resulting image is over 87 megapixels and, if printed at full resolution, would measure over 7 feet wide (it could easily print at twice that size without losing any detail). Hope you enjoy this view of clouds over the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:05-05:00May 20th, 2015|Categories: Marblehead Neck|Tags: causeway, clouds, lamp post|0 Comments

Flying over Marblehead Neck and the Causeway

Almost exactly three years ago, I ventured up in a Cessna with a friend to capture scenes of Marblehead from the ultimate 'rooftop'. I had recently come up with the Rooftop Thursday series and was thrilled when a friend invited me to Beverly Airport for a flight over the North Shore. As I explained previously, unexpected winds started to blow shortly before takeoff and made an already nervous passenger grip his armrest for dear life. Between small bouts of turbulence that felt much bigger in a small plane, I managed a few shots of Marblehead as it crossed below. This [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:06-05:00April 23rd, 2015|Categories: Rooftop|Tags: boats, causeway, Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead Neck, rooftop|0 Comments

Fog on the Causeway

Since discovering the beauty of these lamp posts on the causeway during a foggy night in November 2011, I have returned on a few occasions looking for new compositions to showcase the balance of light and shadows on this link between Marblehead Neck and the mainland. This is one of three compositions captured in early December 2013 on a foggy evening. The fog on the causeway helped illuminate the full arc of light given off by each lamp post. Below is a gallery of other images in the series: Would you like to order a print of this image? [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:17-05:00December 9th, 2014|Categories: Marblehead Neck|Tags: black and white, causeway, fog, lamp post|0 Comments

Low Tide in Marblehead – Clouds over the Causeway

With images of Devereux Beach at low tide captured, I walked back up to (and on top of) the causeway. I started taking photos of those same golden clouds from yesterday's image and was reasonably happy with the results. Then, as the sun dipped below the horizon, the colors in the sky began to change to pink and a perfect cloud formed directly over Marblehead Neck with the causeway forming a beautiful leading line directly into it. I widened my composition to include the whole of the Neck with Marblehead Light viewable in the far left and sought to capture [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:21-05:00September 17th, 2014|Categories: Marblehead Neck|Tags: causeway, clouds, lamp post, Marblehead Neck, pink, sunset|0 Comments

All Along the Causeway

For months, Marblehead has rallied around one special girl with cancer. When word spread that her favorite color was blue and a simple request made to put up a blue ribbon to brighten her day, the community response was overwhelming. Trees, houses, schools, fire trucks, garbage trucks all began sporting a variety of blue ribbons. Today, the Make a Wish foundation and a number of locals put on a show of support. Megan was to be driven around Marblehead inside of a white limo on her way to her own premiere at the Warwick Theater in town to celebrate with [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:24-05:00July 30th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: causeway|0 Comments

Marblehead’s Annual Harbor Illumination

Despite the wrench thrown at Marblehead by way of Hurricane Arthur, this was an incredible weekend filled with activities. Though the annual fireworks display was postponed due to rain and then cancelled due to rough seas, I had decided to make my way to the causeway in order to capture the more unique tradition of the harbor illumination. I had captured the harbor illumination in year's past but always changed my focus as soon as the fireworks show began. This year, I could concentrate my time and compositions on the red flares circling Marblehead Harbor and forming a beautiful ring [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:26-05:00July 7th, 2014|Categories: Fireworks|Tags: causeway, harbor illumination, July 4th, Riverhead beach|0 Comments

Lights on the Causeway

This image comes from the morning of February 6 and followed the image of the tree at Fort Sewall. When I composed that wider shot to include the snow covered branches of the tree, I had noticed the bright lights of the causeway shining at regular intervals. I decided to reposition the camera near the edge of the walkway at the fort and zoom in to highlight the alternating lights against the clouds and sky in the blue hour of dawn.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:38-05:00March 13th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: blue hour, causeway, lamp post|0 Comments

Last Night’s Sunset – Devereux Beach, Marblehead, MA

I had another post in mind for today but then this happened and I just couldn't wait to share it. Yesterday was a good day. It began with having the cast taken off my left foot where I had broken a small bone back on December 7. The feeling of having that weight lifted (literally) was tempered as soon as I stepped on the foot and realized I now had a long way to go in getting up to speed with walking. As it happened, I had a physical therapy appointment at the JCC a few hours later that went [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:51-05:00January 16th, 2014|Categories: Sunset|Tags: beach, causeway, clouds, dramatic sky, lamp post, ocean, sunset|0 Comments

New Years Starts with a Storm

Just three days into 2014 and Marblehead got walloped with almost two feet of snow to go along with truly arctic conditions. Once the snow died down on Friday, I decided to head out and try to capture the storm during the noon high tide. I started off on Ocean Avenue intending to shoot the causeway up close but found 12" of ocean water in the middle of the street and no way to safely cross it. I decided to go with plan B which was climbing to the rocks at Goldthwait beach. While the walk wasn't terrible (though I'm [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:45-05:00January 3rd, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: causeway, ocean, waves|0 Comments