Can you tell that I enjoyed my time atop St. Michael's steeple? This is another image from New Years day and came as the light picked up a bit in the morning sky. I composed the image of Pleasant street at dawn to showcase Grace Community Church as well as the stores in historic downtown Marblehead. The addition of lights in some of the store windows add a warm glow to the final scene.
More images from New Years day to start off this week. This was the first thing I saw when I climbed out onto the base of St. Michael's steeple to welcome 2016. Dawn's glowing light was illuminating clouds to the West and I quickly set up for an image including Abbot hall from this unique vantage point.
Here is another image from my dawn outing to capture sea smoke in Marblehead harbor. I shared a close up view of the lighthouse surrounded by the incredible image of sea smoke rising from the water last week. As the sun rose (and my time ran short - I had to be at work by 7:30am), I made my way towards the car with regular looks across the water. At 7:23am when this image was taken, the sun had finally risen in the morning sky to illuminate the clouds over Marblehead Neck. I quickly composed this shot to include the [...]
I mentioned in last week's post that I started off the new year with a shoot from atop St. Michaels new steeple. One of the first images I took was of the lit star seeming to hang over Marblehead Neck. However, while I was up there, I couldn't resist recreating my Hooper to the Harbor shot that won Peoples Choice award in this year's festival. For the prior shot, I had been on the scaffolding around the steeple but found much more room to roam on this cold morning. I moved to this spot which was almost exactly the same [...]
The sea smoke was an incredible sight to behold on this arctic morning in Marblehead - going out in 7F (without the windshield) definitely paid off. When I first saw the projected temperatures of single digits for this morning, my first thought was that I would finally have a chance to replicate and improve upon my favorite image of sea smoke from 2012. That was the first year I had witnessed this phenomenon of arctic air over a relatively warm ocean creating billowing smoke on the water. With that vision in mind, I bundled up and headed to Fort Sewall [...]
Each year on Thanksgiving, I give thanks for the support of those who see and interact with my images on my website and various social media locations. I started Wednesdays in Marblehead in August 2010 as a personal project to learn more about my new town. I still remember those early days when I would post an image to the website and wonder if anyone would ever see it. After five years and over 1,000 images shared, I'm humbled that so many have connected with these photos of Marblehead and the beauty to be found in a span of 4.4 [...]
In early Spring and late Fall, the working boats of Marblehead Harbor tend to gravitate toward this section near the causeway offering protection from the elements. On this day in May 2012, I had gone out at 5am in hopes of capturing a good sunrise but the thick clouds you see overhead snuffed out any good light. As the sun rose in the sky, the dynamic range grew too wide to capture both the sun and any detail in the boats or houses on Marblehead Neck. I therefore changed the composition to focus on the boats - especially when I [...]
Today's image comes from October 18th and an outing at dawn in the hopes of catching some early sea smoke. The first hard frost of the year seemed to be a good time to catch some sea smoke but the wind and other factors prevented it from forming. Instead, I pointed my lens at the great tree at Fort Sewall and composed this image to capture the feel of a calm morning on Fort Beach.
I mentioned in yesterday's post that I had gone out in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning hoping to shoot a unique composition of Abbot Hall, Old North Church and the new St. Michael's steeple lined up in a row. As I set up for that shot, I kept glancing over my shoulder watching the sky grow brighter and brighter as the red glow of dawn bloomed behind Cormorant Rock. I quickly rotated the tripod and composed this image - luckily the entirety of Cormorant Rock fit within the frame using the 600mm lens. Though the morning featured a cloudless [...]
On August 29, while out capturing the moon setting near Abbot hall, I witnessed a beautiful orange dawn from Chandler Hovey Park. I had a super zoom lens mounted on the camera and therefore looked for new compositions that I had not previously explored. One of my favorite images from the morning ended up being this one of Marblehead Bell with its beacon illuminated sharing the frame with Cormorant Rock and a single lobster boat. The sky was filled with the orange glow of dawn which added the perfect dimension of color to an otherwise simple image.