Doliber’s Light

One of the more incredible dawns I have experienced took shape over Marblehead on Thursday, January 19 and I finally was able to get the 150 captures down to 7 keepers to process and share. As I did before, I'm going to share them as a group on social media and daily on my website. now the real dilemma - is January best represented by snow or one of these captures with unbelievable light??? A bit of backstory, I received an email a few months ago inviting me to shoot from the highest spot at Peach's Point. I was thrilled [...]

By Eyal Oren|2023-01-23T22:20:37-05:00January 27th, 2023|Categories: Little Harbor|Tags: Brown's island, Crowninshield island, dawn, Doliber cove|0 Comments

Reflected Light in Dolber’s Cove

The clouds continued to move on Sunday as I took in the scene at Grace Oliver Beach and I headed back up Crowninshield Road for this shot of Brown's Island and Marblehead Light. There was just enough fall color on Brown's to make it clear this image was captured in early November. I was torn between the wider shot you see here and a tighter one taken 25 seconds later that I'll share tomorrow. I really liked the few rocks in the foreground and the purple clouds that made it into this frame.

By Eyal Oren|2022-11-09T06:41:13-05:00November 9th, 2022|Categories: Island, Little Harbor|Tags: Brown's island, Doliber cove, sunset|0 Comments

Sunset over the Gap

Continuing in the series of images captured on Sunday, November 6th while out to shoot the moonrise, here is a wider shot than yesterday's. The clouds had shifted and darkened So I moved closer to Grace Oliver Beach from my earlier spot up Crowninshield Road and zoomed out for this wider view that encompassed the beach, Peach's Point and Brown's Island. That sunset over the gap of water was the clincher though...

By Eyal Oren|2022-11-08T06:47:31-05:00November 8th, 2022|Categories: Sunset|Tags: Brown's island, Doliber cove, Grace Oliver beach, Peach's Point, sunset|1 Comment

Doliber Sunrise

On July 1, 2015, I headed out to Doliber Cove at sunrise hoping for a solid showing. I arrived just after 5am and found perfect cloud cover from this spot along Beacon Street from which I composed this panorama to encompass the whole of Doliber Cove, Grace Oliver Beach and Brown's Island. I lucked out with this 'Doliber sunrise' and shared one image from the shoot as soon as I returned home. This panorama took a bit more work and ended up relegated to the 'To be Published' folder for exactly 4 years as the harbor illumination and fireworks show [...]

By Eyal Oren|2019-06-23T13:59:03-04:00July 1st, 2019|Categories: Sunrise|Tags: Doliber cove, panorama, sunrise|7 Comments

Christmas Moon

I had been planning this shot of a Christmas moon for nearly a year and everything came together perfectly tonight to capture the view of the full cold moon rising above this Christmas tree at Doliber Cove. The planning began last December when I spotted this perfectly lit tree at the end of the pier on Doliber Cove. I used a moon planning app to figure out where the full moon would rise and realized I would have a perfect vantage point from Crowninshield Road. As it turned out, the moonrise wasn't due until January 1 and I had assumed [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-12-22T17:36:02-05:00December 22nd, 2018|Categories: moon|Tags: Christmas, Doliber cove, full moon, tree|50 Comments

The Beach at Brown’s Island

Grace Oliver Beach was my first stop on Sunday morning and I launched from the entrance to Crowninshield Road from which I could explore Doliber's cover and Brown's Island. I was hoping for more color in the dense tree cover at Brown's but found only a hint of yellows and oranges. Instead of focusing on foliage, I decided to fly higher and capture the whole of the island while focusing more on the beach at Brown's Island as well as the shallow waters. Sunday may have been the final day of this Indian summer as a cold front was due [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-10-22T22:31:15-04:00October 27th, 2017|Categories: Aerial|Tags: aerial, beach, Brown's island, Doliber cove, drone, Phantom 4 Pro|39 Comments

Doliber Cove and the Dr Seuss Tree

I know I'm not the only one in town who is fascinated by the Dr Seuss tree that can be found along the water at the edge of Crowninshield Road. As I flew the Phantom 4 Pro from Grace Oliver Beach and over Doliber Cove, I kept Brown's Island to my right and moved into position to capture the tree on the left. At this height, the shallow depths of Doliber Cove become much more evident though most who have bathed in these waters can attest to its height. It won't be much longer before boats tie up together to [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-06-13T06:37:32-04:00June 13th, 2017|Categories: Aerial|Tags: aerial, Brown's island, Doliber cove, Phantom 4 Pro|2 Comments

Browns Island from Doliber’s Cove

My second stop on February 25th was Little Harbor and I couldn't pass up the chance to shoot the sun rising over Brown's Island and reflecting in the waters of Doliber's cove. I shot this scene before capturing the one of the rowboat shared on Tuesday but came back to it after and found a bird had perched on the nearby rock to take in the peaceful scene. I preferred this image with the bird to add a bit of life to the morning view.

By Eyal Oren|2017-02-26T19:47:44-05:00March 2nd, 2017|Categories: Little Harbor|Tags: Brown's island, Doliber cove, fog|0 Comments

Leaves Aglow in Doliber’s Cove

In 2014, I sent my older camera to be modified so that it could shoot infrared images. The benefit of this is that foliage reflects infrared while a deep blue sky (and ocean) absorbs this wavelength of light. Once the infrared images are converted to black and white, the result can be a dramatic image that is not possible to achieve with an unmodified camera. For a while, I was shooting more black and white and sharing those images quite regularly. It was only when I dove into my archive that I found a collection of infrared black and white [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:34-05:00April 12th, 2016|Categories: Little Harbor|Tags: black and white, Brown's island, Doliber cove, infrared|0 Comments

Summer Sunrise at Doliber Cove

On Wednesday, July 1, a storm was predicted for Marblehead as was early morning fog. With that in mind, I set the alarm clock for 4:30am in hopes of capturing a beautiful dawn and Summer sunrise at Doliber Cove. I arrived to low tide and lackluster light but that all changed as the sun began to rise above the horizon and clouds started to shift in the sky. I moved from my original vantage point to create a more dynamic composition and was really happy with the way this came out. The boats in the water, houses along Crowninshield road [...]

By Eyal Oren|2015-07-06T22:02:08-04:00July 7th, 2015|Categories: Sunrise|Tags: boats, Doliber cove, Grace Oliver beach, low tide, sunrise|0 Comments