J70 and the Start of the Sunset

I shared an image of the peak of sunset light from Peabody Lane last night and promised many more images from this outing on Sunday night. As the sun began to descend in the sky and the clouds broke just right, twin spots of golden light appeared low in the evening sky. I set up this composition and then spotted a J70 gliding through the harbor. I waited until it came into a nice spot and captured this image. If you weren't aware, the J70 World Championship begins today in the waters off Marblehead. Racing continues all week long.

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-23T22:33:16-04:00September 24th, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, Peabody Lane, sunset|7 Comments

Epic Light from Peabody Lane

What an incredible sunset! I had my eye on the clouds for most of the afternoon and had a gut feeling that the clouds might break just right for a solid sunset. Having not shot much in the past few weeks, the timing seemed to work out to get out and see about capturing some new scenes in Marblehead. I drove across the causeway onto Marblehead Neck and over to Peabody Lane where I set up along the rocks on the beach. I started to shoot as the sun lowered and was fairly pleased with early shots until the sun [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-23T20:07:19-04:00September 23rd, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead Neck, Peabody Lane, sunset|50 Comments

Reflections of a Full Harbor

On Monday, I shared an image of pre-sunset light bathing Marblehead Harbor in a soft gold. I had captured the shot from the Dolphin Yacht Club just as our dinner was brought out to the balcony. Upon seeing that light (and with two plates not yet out), I excused myself and headed down to the water for a few more quick shots. As it turned out, the light quickly disappeared as the sun hid behind cloud cover but the still water of the harbor created some really nice reflections. I shot a tight crop and a wide angle view of [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-12T20:10:59-04:00September 13th, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, reflection|6 Comments

Sunset Colors at the Dolphin Yacht Club

On Friday evening, we decided to go to the Dolphin Yacht Club for dinner before going to the high school for the first football game of the season. I had brought my camera bag with me in large part to take photos of my kids near the water before the game and was glad I had done so when a break in the clouds allowed the sun to wash Marblehead Harbor in beautiful sunset colors. The light almost perfectly covered the rows upon rows of boats moored in the harbor and I was able to pull up the shadows in [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-09T17:05:40-04:00September 10th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Dolphin yacht club, Marblehead Harbor, sunset|14 Comments

Blue Sky over Marblehead Harbor

On a hot Labor Day, I parked at Riverhead Beach and walked the length of the causeway trying to find the perfect spot to capture the deep blue sky over Marblehead Harbor. At around the mid-point, I found that I could line up Abbot Hall on the left, the edge of Marblehead Light on the right and seemingly endless masts of boats filling the space in between. With a big blue sky punctuated by white clouds overhead, I had the makings of a picture perfect summer day in Marblehead.

By Eyal Oren|2018-09-04T22:37:19-04:00September 5th, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: blue, boats, Marblehead Harbor|2 Comments

Diving for Rainbows

I mentioned yesterday that I have not shot many (if any) storms this summer and ended up revisiting images taken back in August of 2015 to find an unshared shot of lightning. While in that folder, I found this image of a rainbow forming over Marblehead Harbor. I couldn't remember the specifics of this outing on August 4th, 2015 so I jumped into the folder where I keep my images and discovered I had taken 20 images between 3pm and 8:20pm on this day ranging from dark clouds over Marblehead Light to lightning near Abbot to rainbows over the harbor [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-08-21T23:53:07-04:00August 22nd, 2018|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, rainbow|4 Comments

Making Waves at Sunrise

I don't make it up early enough to catch most sunrises in the summer but when I do and when conditions turn out this amazing, I try to make the most of it. Today's image comes from the sunrise that wouldn't end on June 30th. I've shared a number of images from that morning including 'Sunrise Like Gold' that I just finalized as the June image for my 2019 Marblehead Calendar (going to press this week). After shooting several frames, a passing boat's wake created subtle waves that helped accentuate the reflections of light in Marblehead Harbor.

By Eyal Oren|2018-08-19T19:29:16-04:00August 20th, 2018|Categories: Sunrise|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, reflection, sunrise|11 Comments

Just Another Marblehead Sunset

What does it say about this town when I look at this image taking on the evening of August 1st and the first thing that pops in my head is 'just another Marblehead sunset'? This image was captured a few minutes before two others that I shared from this night including 'the kids are alright'. I've often shot sunsets with a slight change in position of Abbot Hall from the left to right third of the frame and noted that the subtle shift can create a wildly different composition. We've had a paucity of nice sunsets with the recent rains [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-08-14T21:44:27-04:00August 15th, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boats, Marblehead Harbor, sunset|5 Comments

Full Harbor for the Fourth of July

Another funny story (to borrow the intro from last week's image of kids on the boat) - my wife and I went out for dinner a few nights ago and, while eating, caught the words 'Wednesdays in Marblehead' coming from the table next to us. The group said some incredibly flattering things and my wife and I tried to figure out if/when to introduce ourselves but between the food and changes in conversation, the timing didn't seem right. I did catch one comment that I have been mulling over since then - there were mixed feelings on the drone/aerial images. [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-08-06T22:34:08-04:00August 7th, 2018|Categories: Aerial|Tags: aerial, boats, Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead Neck, panorama|10 Comments

The Kids are Alright

Funny story... Not two minutes after taking the image of sunset that I shared on Wednesday night, a boat comes along with a group of kids who spot my camera and immediately pose. As they slowly motor past, they tried to figure out how to contact me. I shouted back to look up Wednesdays in Marblehead and got a bunch of exclamations along the lines of 'you're that guy!' and 'I follow you on Instagram'. I received a nice Facebook message from one of the kids on the boat last night which prompted me to jump to this photo and [...]

By Eyal Oren|2018-08-02T21:26:26-04:00August 3rd, 2018|Categories: Sunset|Tags: boat, Marblehead Harbor, people, sunset|13 Comments