Supermoon Setting over Marblehead Harbor

What a weekend! I chased the moon quite literally from moonrise to moonset starting on Friday night and ending on Sunday morning. The sturgeon moon (as August's full moon is called) was also labeled as a supermoon for being 8% larger than a regular full moon. With that in mind, I again borrowed a super zoom in the hopes of replicating one of my all time favorite images - the supermoon setting over Abbot Hall taken in March 2011. On this occasion, the moon set proved much trickier with Saturday's descent occurring 30 minutes before sunrise and Sunday's taking place [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:00-05:00September 2nd, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: Abbot Hall, boats, full moon, Marblehead Harbor|2 Comments

Full Moon rising over Ram Island

My family and I were out at Preston Beach with friends tonight enjoying one of the last few days of Summer. I had checked the position of the coming Sturgeon moon ahead of time and knew that it would rise over Ram Island. The only potential issue I foresaw were the building clouds and deepening haze at the horizon that I worried might obstruct early views of the full moon. As it happened, the haze did stick around past sunset and I had to wait until the full moon had risen well over Ram Island before capturing it as you [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:00-05:00August 29th, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: full moon, Ram island|0 Comments

Watching the Moon Rise

I've already shared one image of the blue moon rising on July 31st but this one might be my favorite from that night. I explained previously that my camera and all lenses were at Canon for their biyearly checkup and cleaning. In their place, I was fortunate to borrow a camera and zoom lens from a friend. The zoom she lent me allowed twice the magnification of my longest lens and the camera added an extra 1.6 time reach to do its smaller sensor. The end result was an effective 640mm of zoom (vs the 200mm I usually use). When [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:00-05:00August 26th, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, full moon, lighthouse, people|0 Comments

Once in a Blue Moon

On July 23rd, I decided to go on hiatus. This was largely driven by my feeling that I was going out to shoot the same scenes driven in part by the positive response I was getting on social media. I felt that I was no longer shooting for myself and started feeling less excited about going out and less satisfied with the images I was capturing. In the past week, I have continued to go out to shoot but found the excitement has come roaring back (to the detriment of my family whom I forced to join me on one [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:02-05:00August 1st, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: full moon, lighthouse, people|0 Comments

The Full Moon over Marblehead Neck

One last image (for now) of the incredible light that took shape over Marblehead on July 1st. After capturing the red glow of houses on the Neck and then racing up to the top of Crocker Park for an image of Abbot Hall and the purple light of the coming storm, I returned to the water's edge once more to shoot the full moon rising over Marblehead Neck. By this point, the full moon had risen above the layer of haze that had obscured it earlier and the clouds had began to spread overhead. I spotted a couple on the Crocker [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:02-05:00July 10th, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: boats, Crocker park, float, full moon, lighthouse, Marblehead Harbor|0 Comments

Full Moon and the Eastern’s Red Glow

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I was set up to capture the full moon rising from Crocker Park when a red glow began to form on the Eastern Yacht Club and houses on Marblehead Neck. This was the scene I stared at, dumbfounded, until I looked behind me and saw the purple light from a coming storm was the source of the mysterious red glow.

By Eyal Oren|2015-07-07T20:18:35-04:00July 9th, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: Eastern Yacht Club, full moon, Marblehead Neck, red|0 Comments

Watching the Moon Rise from Fort Beach

Watching the moon rise always involves a delicate balance of perfect timing - clear skies, agreeable work schedule, an understanding wife and kids and lack of other commitments. With that being said, I last had a chance to capture the full moon rising over Marblehead in January. On Friday night, April's pink moon was due to rise but nearly everything kept me from being able to capture it. I therefore present you the Sturgeon moon rising over Marblehead Light from a shoot in August 2012. I started off shooting the full moon from Fort Sewall and shared that image shortly [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:07-05:00April 6th, 2015|Categories: moon|Tags: boats, Fort Beach, Fort Sewall, full moon, lighthouse|0 Comments

Full Moon over Fort Beach

It's hard to believe that I haven't shot the full moon rising in Marblehead since this image captured in mid-July. Weather is mostly to blame with many of the full moons having been hidden behind thick cloud cover over the past few months. However, with most full moon risings, I have tried to capture the scene from more than one perspective. On this night, I had managed to get the moon placed perfectly over Marblehead Light and then walked down to Fort Beach while there was still enough light in the sky to capture this wider view including the boats [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:17-05:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: moon|Tags: boats, Fort Beach, full moon, lighthouse|0 Comments

Harvest Moon and Marblehead Harbor

One more image from September 2013 to finish off this short week. With the Jewish New Year upon us, I will be taking a break from the site for the next few days. I have shared a wider image (and the full story) of how I came to be on a rooftop while the Harvest moon rose over a full Marblehead Harbor. You can read that story by clicking the image below. As the moon rose, I tried a number of compositions and liked this zoomed in view a lot but held off sharing it at the time as it [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:21-05:00September 24th, 2014|Categories: moon|Tags: boats, full moon, Harvest moon, lighthouse, Marblehead Harbor|0 Comments

Supermoon Rises over Marblehead Light

Since the 'true' supermoon over 2011, it seems that each year we have more and more appearances of the so-called supermoon. The term originally was meant for the full moon which was at its closest proximity to the earth in nearly two decades and thus would appear 17% larger. The supermoons now are labels added to the closest proximity of the moon to the Earth for a given year. In 2014, we are due to have three such supermoons. With that being said, I am always up for capturing an image of a full moon over Marblehead (supermoon or not). [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:25-05:00July 12th, 2014|Categories: moon|Tags: boats, Chandler Hovey park, full moon, lighthouse, Marblehead Harbor|0 Comments