Halloween Race in Front of Abbot Hall

On Saturday, I decided to head out to catch the start of the Annual Eastern Yacht Club Halloween Race in Marblehead Harbor. The conditions were perfect for racing with strong winds but that made for less than fun conditions standing across the harbor shooting the action. I started off getting images of the colorful sailboats crossing in front of Old North Church and was hoping the race course would extend out toward Abbot Hall even though that section of the harbor seemed to be fairly full with boats (for this late in the season). It turned out that the image [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:49-05:00October 27th, 2013|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: Abbot Hall, Marblehead Harbor, sailboat, sailing|0 Comments

Foggy Morning in Marblehead Harbor

Earlier in the week, I became a bit overwhelmed by the number of images I had waiting to post and turned to Facebook to see what everyone was most interested in seeing. The answers included the expected foliage shots but also a strong vote for more images taken in the fog. This image comes from the morning of September 11th when an incredibly dense fog rolled in and enveloped Marblehead Harbor. I began shooting from near the State Street Landing but moved toward Fort Beach as the sun rose in the morning sky. This was one of the last images [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:49-05:00October 17th, 2013|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: fog, lighthouse, Marblehead Harbor, sailboat|1 Comment

Foggy Morning in Marblehead Day 5 – Fort Beach and Fort Sewall

An hour and a half after starting this photo shoot on a foggy morning, I finally tore myself away from Marblehead Harbor and drove off in search of other vantage points. I made my way down Front Street and ended up at Fort Beach facing the head of the harbor and Fort Sewall. The sky had taken on an orange hue at this point and the fog remained thick. I composed this scene to include the tide pools seen at low tide along Fort Beach while also including the great tree at Fort Sewall and the boats moored in the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:50-05:00September 20th, 2013|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: beach, boats, fog, Fort Sewall, sailboat, tree|0 Comments

Foggy Morning in Marblehead Day 4 – Feeling Lucky

Day 4 of this week's posts all coming from the same foggy morning in Marblehead. I mentioned before that these images were taken on September 11th which ended up being a 90 degree day and I headed out that morning at dawn hoping for a good sunrise. As you saw in the posts earlier this week, both dawn and the sunrise were worth the few hours lost sleep. As the sun rose, the fog actually increased (rather than burning off as I expected). At this point, I began to look for compositions with boats against the rising fog. There is [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:50-05:00September 19th, 2013|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: boats, fog, Marblehead Harbor, sailboat|0 Comments

Watching the Storm Roll In From Cove Beach

We had what seemed like an endless run of rainy days to end August and begin September. On this particular day (Sept 1st), the sky cleared shortly before noon and promised only a few hours of relief. I decided to take advantage of the brief respite to head out and shoot under what should have been good light. I quickly decided to head to Marblehead Neck and then made stops at most of the public ways. I ended at Cove Lane and stopped at the top of the chairs to survey this scene that lay before me. As you can [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:52-05:00September 10th, 2013|Categories: Chandler Hovey park|Tags: black and white, Cove Lane, dramatic sky, lighthouse, Public way, sailboat|0 Comments

Of Sailboats, Landmarks and Marblehead Harbor seen from Children’s Island

At the end of July, we went out to Children's Island where my son was spending two weeks at camp. I shared an image taken from aboard the Hannah Glover previously but had kept this one taken from the island. As we were getting ready to leave Children's Island, I noted these three sailboats moored in the mouth of the island's harbor with Marblehead lighthouse and Abbot Hall visible in the distance under great clouds. I positioned myself such that each landmark fell within the triangular lines of the two sailboats and clicked the shutter when I felt the sailboat [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:52-05:00September 5th, 2013|Categories: Island|Tags: Abbot Hall, Childrens Island, lighthouse, Marblehead Harbor, sailboat|0 Comments

Good Speed and the Corinthian Yacht Club

Here is another image from the boat tour around Marblehead that took place on July 16th. By now we had made our way into Marblehead harbor and the light was really picking up. As we motored past the Corinthian yacht club, I spied this sailboat coming up. I decided to frame the shot so that the boat would show up in the bottom third of the frame and had to fire off a number of shots and hope that I got the shot as I had wanted. It turns out that it is much harder to shoot on a moving [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:53-05:00August 2nd, 2013|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead Harbor, sailboat, yacht club|0 Comments

Lone Sailboat in Marblehead Harbor

As I mentioned yesterday, I have now shared 700 images of Marblehead since starring this project in August 2010. I decided to go through my published and 'to be posted' images over the weekend to reflect on that and found this lone sailboat in Marblehead harbor. This image was taken on July 28, 2012 and I remember going out that day because some mid-day fog had begun to roll in. This was taken at noon and the fog at that point had been alternating between pea soup and atmospheric or moody. As I happened upon the lone sailboat, the light [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:54-05:00July 9th, 2013|Categories: Marblehead Harbor|Tags: fog, Marblehead Harbor, sailboat|0 Comments

At the Starting Line of the Redd’s Pond Model Boat Regatta

On Friday, July 5th the Marblehead Festival of Arts Annual Model Boat Regatta took place at Redd's Pond. As we have for each of the past three years, I took the kids to the lawn at Abbot Hall and we built a model boat to compete. It was the boy's turn for a boat (they alternate each year) so we ended up with a grey on black battleship that he named the USS Constitution and promptly painted on cannons to do battle with the other boats. We headed down to Redd's Pond at 3pm for the start of the model [...]

By Eyal Oren|2015-06-13T16:07:54-04:00July 6th, 2013|Categories: Traditions|Tags: people, pond, Redd's pond, regatta, sailboat|0 Comments

A Blue Moon Over Marblehead Lighthouse

I missed out on shooting May's full moon and, when trying to decide on a photo to share today, came across this one from August of the rare blue moon. The blue moon is the name given to the second full moon in a given month. On August 30th, 2012, this one rose under perfect conditions. I shared a landscape oriented version of this blue moon but kept this portrait oriented one 'in the archive' to bring out on just such a day. This image of the blue moon was taken from along Front Street on this warm late August [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:56-05:00June 3rd, 2013|Categories: moon|Tags: full moon, lighthouse, sailboat|0 Comments