Dramatic Sky over Chandler Hovey Park

With three images shared so far this week all taken on the same morning of Thursday, February 6th, I figured I would add one more and make this a proper theme. Shortly after capturing Monday's image of the tree at Fort Sewall in the blue hour, I noticed the sky breaking up over Chandler Hovey Park. With the sun rising toward the horizon, light began seeping through the breaks in the clouds making for a very dramatic sky. I could not capture the immense size and power of the scene with the horizontal (or landscape) orientation I had the camera [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:42-05:00February 13th, 2014|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: black and white, Chandler Hovey park, dramatic sky, lighthouse|2 Comments

Lighting up the Fog at Chandler Hovey Park

After capturing the causeway, I made my way to Chandler Hovey Park with a particular image in mind. I knew the holiday lights had been turned on and hoped the fog would serve to accentuate them. As it turned out, my hunch was a good one and I shared that image last week - LINK. Before I noticed the lighthouse though, I was struck by the light behind the first tree in the park. The fog served to accentuate the beams of light as they were split by the branches of the tree and the effect was almost unreal. I [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:46-05:00December 18th, 2013|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: black and white, Chandler Hovey park, fog, lighthouse|0 Comments

Marblehead Lighthouse Glowing in the Fog

I mentioned in yesterday's post that thick fog had settled on this Friday night in early December. One of my first stops was Chandler Hovey Park where I was hoping to capture Marblehead Lighthouse glowing in the fog. I knew that the holiday lights had been set up and were lit but I was really hoping that the bright green beacon atop the light might offer something special with the fog. One of the greatest qualities of thick fog is that it helps clarify light and, in this case, was able to show the gaps in light where the framing [...]

By Eyal Oren|2013-12-08T19:12:07-05:00December 11th, 2013|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, fog, lighthouse|0 Comments

Snow in Marblehead – Chandler Hovey Park

Snow week continues on Wednesdays in Marblehead. Seemed like a good opportunity to bring some of these snow themed images to light as we have yet to experience our first real storm of the Winter season. Today's image is from an early January day in 2010. We were still relatively new to Marblehead having moved here in May of 2008 and this was only our second Winter. I had made my way out to Fort Sewall to capture the freshly fallen snow and took this shot exactly one minute after another that I had already shared and which recently was printed [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:47-05:00December 4th, 2013|Categories: Snow|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, snow|0 Comments

Marblehead Light on Chandler Hovey Park

Call it what you like but, in the right light, Marblehead light is a singularly beautiful lighthouse. This image of Marblehead Lighthouse seen on Chandler Hovey Park comes from a July boat ride/photoshoot around the waters of Marblehead. We got to this point at just the right time and hit incredible soft backlight which bathed Marblehead Light and Abbot Hall in the distance in a soft glow. You can just make out a few boats moored at the mouth of the harbor but what stands out is the incredible structure of Marblehead Light. With the orange light of sunset and [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:48-05:00November 6th, 2013|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Abbot Hall, Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse|0 Comments

Storm Chasing at Chandler Hovey Park

People's Choice Award - Marblehead Festival of Arts 2014 I went out this afternoon to chase after some big cumulus clouds that had formed over Marblehead harbor. While I managed to get a few shots of those with a harbor still filled with boats, I began to feel a bit dismayed as grey skies seemed to swallow up those cumulus clouds. I decided to head towards Chandler Hovey Park to see if I could get a better angle on the approaching cloud formation and saw this. This image is a 6-shot panorama at 17mm which should give you some sense [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:51-05:00September 13th, 2013|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, dramatic sky, lighthouse|3 Comments

Dawn of a New Year of Wednesdays in Marblehead

Yesterday, I shared a frenetic slideshow showcasing every one of the 726 images shared in the first three years of Wednesdays in Marblehead. I was trying to decide how best to start Year 4 and went through the archive until I found this image from mid-January of a beautiful dawn captured from Front Street. This was one of many failed attempts to capture sea smoke over the last Winter but, on this particular morning, I was rewarded for my efforts with great clouds above the horizon that encircled Marblehead Neck as well as wispy clouds higher up in the sky [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:53-05:00August 15th, 2013|Categories: Sunrise|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, dawn, Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead Neck|0 Comments

Marblehead Lighthouse Aglow in the Colors of Sunset

On Saturday, I remember feeling as if weeks had passed since I last went out to take a landscape image. When I looked back at my archive, the real answer was that only 6 days had passed. That being said, my last sunset was 12 days ago...okay, maybe I need help. With that feeling of a need to go out again, I looked out my bedroom window at 7pm and noted some nice clouds and light forming. I 'convinced' the kids to watch just a bit of TV til I got home and got a knowing nod from my wife [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:57-05:00May 20th, 2013|Categories: Sunset|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, sunset, tree|1 Comment

Best Seat for a Sunset – Chandler Hovey Park in Marblehead

I wanted to post a photo from the archive and started going back through the past few months. Despite the recent warm Spring weather, it felt way too early for an image of snow. I ended up at this image taken on December 15th, 21012 at Chandler Hovey Park. I'm pretty sure this was an unseasonable warm Winter day* and I recall taking a photo of the Marblehead Savings Bank menorah a half hour earlier. As the sun set, the clouds suggested a nice sunset was in store and I drove out to the lighthouse to see about capturing it. [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:58-05:00May 2nd, 2013|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, Marblehead Harbor, sunset|2 Comments

Day 3 – A Long Exposure Sunset After the Storm

Continuing with this week's theme of showing images from each of the 5 days of our recent Spring storm, here is the one from Friday, March 8th. If you haven't blocked out all memories of this storm, Friday was a whopper. We started the day with about 8 inches of snow on the ground. What was supposed to let up by noon ended up adding another 8 inches throughout the day. School was cancelled and roads were a mess. I was at work but got out a bit early and had the forethought to bring my camera gear with me. [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:01-05:00March 13th, 2013|Categories: Sunset|Tags: bench, Chandler Hovey park, long exposure, Marblehead Harbor, sunset|0 Comments