July 4th

Marblehead’s Annual Harbor Illumination

Despite the wrench thrown at Marblehead by way of Hurricane Arthur, this was an incredible weekend filled with activities.  Though the annual fireworks display was postponed due to rain and then cancelled due to rough seas, I had decided to make my way to the causeway in order to capture the more unique tradition of the harbor illumination. I had captured the harbor illumination in year's past but always changed my focus as soon as the fireworks show began.  This year, I could concentrate my time and compositions on the red flares circling Marblehead Harbor and forming a beautiful ring [...]

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Harbor Illumination

A gigapixel view of the Marblehead Harbor Illumination iPhone/iPad users - click the grey title bar for an iPhone friendly version (pinch to zoom that one). Before the fireworks began, I had another image in mind and carefully setup to try to achieve what you see above. I photographed the Marblehead harbor illumination at a focal length of 105mm (approximately 4x zoom equivalent) using 28 vertical images. The combined image is a staggering 325 megapixels. I then uploaded it to Gigapan and embedded their viewer above. By using the controls, you can zoom in as far as you want and [...]

Fireworks

I figured I would start off the blog with a bang (pardon the pun)!  The goal of this blog is to capture the beauty of the town of Marblehead, MA.  A new image will be posted every Wednesday so please follow me on Twitter or add the RSS feed for this page. Shot from Chandler Hovey park on July 4th, 2010. Technical: Canon 50D with EF-S 10-22mm lens.  3 exposure HDR.

By |2016-11-06T12:06:32-05:00August 14th, 2010|Categories: Book, Fireworks|Tags: , , , , , |3 Comments