Weathered Tree at Chandler Hovey Park

The theme for this week seems to be shaping up as 'images that I wasn't happy with but finally figured out the right processing this weekend'. This black and white image of a weathered tree at Chandler Hovey Park was captured on September 1, 2013. I was drawn to this composition in which the tree is able to steal focus from Marblehead Light in large part due to the curve of the clouds mimicking the canopy of the tree. That being said, the processing never really worked out. I tried this in color and black and white and while the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2020-08-17T21:37:43-04:00August 18th, 2020|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: black and white, Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, tree|0 Comments

Harbor Views

Most people who visit Chandler Hovey Park will spend their time around the lighthouse and benches but, if you walk past the old oil house to the edge of the park, you'll see this view of a not-so-secret beach and great harbor views.

By Eyal Oren|2020-07-29T21:55:16-04:00July 30th, 2020|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park|0 Comments

Chandler Hovey Park and the Harbor

The thing about aerial images is that you don't always need to fly 200 or 400 feet above the ground. I quickly learned that bringing the drone off shore and raised a bit off the water provided some incredible compositions as in this shot captured on July 26, 2017. Just a typical summer day in Marblehead with a perfect view of Chandler Hovey Park, the harbor and Abbot Hall in the distance

By Eyal Oren|2020-07-17T03:15:05-04:00July 15th, 2020|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: aerial, Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, Marblehead Harbor|1 Comment

Lighting up the Clouds

Last Wednesday proved to be quite the outing and it began with a trip to Chandler Hovey Park in the hopes of capturing an oncoming storm. Before that storm would arrive, I spotted huge cumulus clouds behind Marblehead Light and grabbed this shot of the lighthouse backed by the intricate detail and patterns. The oncoming storm was a bust but the sunset more than made up for it.

By Eyal Oren|2020-06-28T21:55:30-04:00June 30th, 2020|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, clouds, lighthouse|0 Comments

Reflected Light

I have had another image from this photoshoot hanging in my home office since I captured it on June 7, 2016. That image features the whole of the lighthouse reflected in the collected pool of water along the path leading to the iron structure. This one was taken 5 minutes later and I decided to change my position to better capture the beautiful sky behind Marblehead Light while choosing to reflect the tree rather than the lighthouse.

By Eyal Oren|2020-06-14T22:20:16-04:00June 15th, 2020|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, reflection|0 Comments

Larger Than Life

I went out twice this past week to capture the moonrise and ended up getting skunked by cloud cover both times. I waited over an hour on Friday night but the moon refused to show and I headed home empty handed. Luckily, I still have 40 images of moonrises and moonsets in Marblehead that have not been published yet and pulled this one of a larger than life moon from a forgotten shoot in February 2020. The moon appears huge thanks to the use of a 400mm focal length which served to flatten the distance between foreground and background and [...]

By Eyal Oren|2020-06-07T21:49:42-04:00June 8th, 2020|Categories: moon|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, Childrens Island, full moon, lighthouse, moonrise|0 Comments

Summer Nights in Marblehead

Sometimes as I go through my 'to be posted' archive, I come across an image and wonder why it didn't make the cut initially. In this case, I looked back and found that I had been playing with reflections of the lighthouse in a puddle of water from a recent rain and then later was treated to an even nicer sunset sky. B0th of those images were shared shortly after this outing on July 18, 2017 but this one stayed back. Looking at it now, all of the elements of summer nights in Marblehead seem to be perfectly captured in [...]

By Eyal Oren|2020-05-05T22:08:37-04:00May 6th, 2020|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: boats, Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, people, sunset|0 Comments

Night of the Aurora

In 2015, strong solar storms allowed Marbleheaders to view the aurora borealis on two occasions - March and June. This is my last image from the earlier outing on March 17, 2015 that I had yet to share. With the sun having since diminished the frequency and severity of storms, I'm not sure that we'll have a chance to view these purple and green colors again for a while. *Note - the colors were not visible to the naked eye but required a long (25 second) exposure by the camera sensor

By Eyal Oren|2020-04-22T21:24:48-04:00April 23rd, 2020|Categories: Night|Tags: aurora borealis, Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse|0 Comments

Rocky Shores of Chandler Hovey Park

Sunday, September 1st was the first time I had been out to capture new photos in nearly a month and, with the nice cloud cover, I decided to bring along my drone. I had flown the drone only once in the past year having spent much of 2017 and 2018 exploring Marblehead from the air. I had realized that the drone offered other possibilities than simply shooting from 100-400 feet in the air and had an idea in mind when I drove out to the Neck. I arrived to find the parking lot at Chandler Hovey packed on this Labor [...]

By Eyal Oren|2019-09-02T21:30:42-04:00September 4th, 2019|Categories: Aerial|Tags: aerial, Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, Phantom 4 Pro|11 Comments

Churning Waves

Finishing off this week's posts from 2011 to 2013 is this image of Chandler Hovey's rocky shore captured on December 18, 2011. I used a slightly slowed shutter speed of 1/6th of a second (on a tripod) to capture the motion in the churning waves

By Eyal Oren|2019-06-16T17:51:05-04:00June 21st, 2019|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: Chandler Hovey park|2 Comments