Between the Moon and Marblehead Light

A full moon is rising tonight on the first night of Passover and, knowing that I won't have a chance to shoot it, I thought I would share this image of the moonrise from mid-November. I've shared two other images of this full moon before but today's image was the first one I captured that night and, while the moon hadn't quite hit its peak glow, I really liked the softer look of it as it broke through the haze on this night. One of my favorite aspects of shooting the moon from this spot near Crocker Park was being able [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-04-09T22:11:53-04:00April 10th, 2017|Categories: moon|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, full moon, lighthouse, moonrise, people|8 Comments

Full Worm Moon over Flying Point

I can't describe how cold it was tonight while waiting for the full moon to rise over Flying Point. With the clear night sky, I decided to drive over to Greystone beach having scouted out the projected rise of the full worm moon. I had initially considered shooting the moonrise over Children's Island but decided in the end to try to capture it over the tip of Marblehead Neck instead. I set up about 10 minutes early with a borrowed 600mm lens and waited...and waited. The cold air seemed to blow right through all layers of clothing and my hands [...]

By Eyal Oren|2017-03-12T20:26:16-04:00March 12th, 2017|Categories: moon|Tags: full moon, Marblehead Neck, moonrise|7 Comments

Full Buck Moon over Ram Island

The full moon is rising tonight but I won't have a chance to capture it. Instead, I looked through my to-be-published archive and found this image of the full buck moon from July 2016 rising over Ram Island. The sun had just dipped below the horizon (after 8:00pm!) and lent the sky a pink hue. I've shared one other image from this evening shortly after moonrise but really liked this one for the addition of the moonlight reflecting in the calm ocean waters.

By Eyal Oren|2017-01-11T20:48:19-05:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Island|Tags: full moon, Ram island, sunset|0 Comments

Top 10 of 2016 – #6 – Goodnight Moon

Another very recent image that immediately cemented a place in my top 10 images of 2016 was this one of the supermoon and Abbot Hall captured on November 14th. I had three opportunities to capture the historically large supermoon (beaver moon) with a moonrise over Chandler Hovey Park and a moonset against Abbot Hall. The most challenging one took place on Monday, November 14th with the moonrise. I had scouted out this location ahead of time but wasn't sure if the trajectory of the moon would work with the very small angle I had to work with. To add an extra [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-12-18T10:46:12-05:00December 23rd, 2016|Categories: Favorite|Tags: Abbot Hall, favorite, full moon, supermoon|8 Comments

Moon and Star over Marblehead

On Wednesday morning, I left the house at dawn with two goals in mind - capturing the setting full moon over Marblehead and a few images using my new Phantom drone. I started by crossing the causeway and saw the beautiful full moon in my rear view mirror. I had charted out its descent the night before but, when faced with the moon that morning, I found myself struggling with the right shooting spot. I ended up driving down Foster Street, up Harbor Avenue, down Corinthian Lane, back up Nahant Street, down Ocean Avenue and finally deciding on Harvard Street. [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-12-15T20:56:36-05:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: moon|Tags: full moon, Grace Community church, moonset, St Michaels church, stars, supermoon, The Landing|8 Comments

Light Up the Moon

Last night, I headed out of Marblehead in the hopes of capturing the full cold moon rising behind Nubble Light which had been decorated for the season in holiday lights. It felt good to venture outside of Marblehead for a photoshoot - something I hadn't done in quite some time. And even better to meet up with Phil Cohen who served as the inspiration for Wednesdays in Marblehead with his The Daily Portsmouth. As luck would have it, thick clouds moved in a bit earlier than expected and spoiled the photoshoot. I was still able to catch up with Phil but [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-12-13T21:40:52-05:00December 14th, 2016|Categories: moon|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, full moon, lighthouse, supermoon|3 Comments

Goodnight Moon – Marblehead, Massachusetts

The supermoon rose at its closest path to Earth in over sixty years and I had just made it to this location in time to capture the incredibly large moon against the iconic Abbot Hall. In the past 36 hours, I have shot the moonrise twice and the moonset once. Each location required a good deal of planning and luck - but none more so than this one. I started my supermoon chasing last night from near Crocker Park and managed to get a nice shot of it ascending near the lighthouse. This morning, I woke before dawn and captured [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-14T18:13:00-05:00November 14th, 2016|Categories: moon|Tags: Abbot Hall, full moon, moonrise, supermoon|89 Comments

Supermoon Rises over Marblehead Light

When I first heard that a supermoon was due to rise in November, I dismissed it as 'yet another supermoon' (it seems we've had two to three of these each year since the last really big one in March 2011 which I used for the cover of my book). It was only later that I realized that the moon was making its closest path to Earth since 1948 and would indeed be a supermoon to rival and beat that 2011 one. With that in mind, I made several plans for capturing the wonder of this full Beaver moon. First up was upgrading [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-13T17:50:32-05:00November 13th, 2016|Categories: moon|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, full moon, lighthouse, moonrise, supermoon|14 Comments

Red Door and the Hunters Moon

As the Hunters Moon set on Sunday morning, I ran around Chandler Hovey Park trying to find different compositions with which to capture the beautifully lit full moon. At one point I was perched on the rocks shooting dawn breaking behind Marblehead Rock and then turned to see the full moon setting between the supports of Marblehead Light. I quickly altered my position and set up this image to include the red door marking the base and entrance to Marblehead Light on the right with the full Hunters Moon setting between diagonal supports on the left.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:27-05:00October 24th, 2016|Categories: moon|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, full moon, lighthouse|4 Comments

Hunter Moon sets over Old North Church

Conditions were perfect for last night's full Hunter moonrise and were predicted to be equally good for the moonset this morning. I woke at 6, walked the dog, and then headed out to Chandler Hovey Park where I had plotted the moonset to occur just behind the Old North Church. It took a little while to find the perfect spot from which to capture this image of the Hunter moon setting over Old North Church. There are still just enough boats in the harbor that finding a clean angle without masts in the frame can be a bit tricky. This [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:27-05:00October 16th, 2016|Categories: moon|Tags: boat, full moon, Old North Church|8 Comments