State Street in the Snow

With snow finally on the ground, it felt appropriate to revisit some images of snow in my archive. The timing of this last snow fall and its strong winds followed by clear blue skies did not make for great photographic opportunities. Luckily, I have a fair number of snow shots from past outings that I've wanted to share. This image of State Street in the snow comes from January 24, 2015. This was an early and mild snow storm that preceded the deluge that would be the Winter of 2015. The timing of this snow fall on a Saturday morning allowed [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:46-05:00January 25th, 2016|Categories: Snow|Tags: snow, State Street|0 Comments

Lighting Up State Street

This image comes one week before yesterday's and a dawn outing on State Street. The forecast for light clouds raised my hopes for a good sunrise and I set my alarm clock to try to take advantage of the conditions. I started off on State Street in the pre-dawn blue hour and found one house with holiday lights encircling the door. I moved to the edge of the sidewalk for this image of the street winding toward the harbor and the shining star hanging overhead from a crane.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:47-05:00January 22nd, 2016|Categories: Old Town|Tags: blue hour, State Street|0 Comments

Top 10 of 2015 – Winter Wonderland

It's almost funny to look back on this image of State Street with falling snow captured on January 24, 2015. Little did I know just how much snow would keep falling during the endless Winter of 2015. At the time though, the timing of this snowfall (8:00am) allowed me to capture the falling flakes before plows began to clear the road and spread sand and salt to discolor the soft coat of white covering State Street. The conditions reminded me of those in which I captured a favorite image of Fort Sewall years ago. With the natural beauty of the houses of [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:51-05:00December 27th, 2015|Categories: Favorite|Tags: favorite, snow, State Street|0 Comments

State Street Sunrise

Just like Monday's image of Mud Puddle Toys, this image comes 5 years after a very similar one. I had captured the sunset over State Street in November 2010 and always meant to return for the sunrise view. The position of the sunrise is such that it occurs at the base of State Street during the Winter and it seemed like I would get a perfect complement to that image with a sunrise version. For whatever reason, I hadn't captured State Street at sunrise until Saturday morning. I began shooting on this morning along Washington Street before heading to State [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:03:52-05:00December 16th, 2015|Categories: Old Town|Tags: houses, State Street, sunrise|0 Comments

State Street After the Blizzard of 2015

Continuing this week's theme of photos captured after the Blizzard of 2015 passed through Marblehead, we come to this image of State Street. I've shot the houses along State Street countless times and have found a different composition on just about every visit down this street. On this day, I positioned my tripod against the snow bank on the right with one leg shortened and balancing on the 3-4 foot high pile of snow. This allowed me to focus on the houses with their alternating colors along one side of the street.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:11-05:00February 3rd, 2015|Categories: Snow|Tags: blizzard, houses, snow, State Street|0 Comments

A Blizzard on State Street

As I write today's post, predictions are for Marblehead to receive anywhere from 2 to 3 feet of snow from Monday night through Tuesday. That led me to my photography archives and this image from February 9, 2013 when we last received almost 2 feet of snow. Once the driving ban was lifted, I headed out to capture scenes of Marblehead after the blizzard. This view looking up State Street hadn't been shared until now and seemed to be a nice compliment to yesterday's view.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:13-05:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Snow|Tags: houses, snow, State Street|0 Comments

Winter Wonderland on State Street

On Saturday, January 24th, we had one of our first real snow storms of the Winter season. It had been a while since I was last able to capture images of Marblehead in the freshly falling snow and so, as soon as I woke up, I headed out the door with a few destinations in mind. I shared an image of Fort Sewall over the weekend but this (and another image coming Wednesday) were my favorites from the day. I had just parked on Washington Street and captured images of Old Town House when I turned the corner and found [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:13-05:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: Snow|Tags: houses, snow, State Street|0 Comments

A Magical Night on State Street

Lately I've been sharing a lot more images of the sea and, with that in mind, decided to look through the 'to be posted' file in search of an image that broke the recent trend. This image was captured on a particularly magical night on State Street on December 5th, 2013. This is one of many black and white images of fog that came out of the evening's shoot throughout town. I had a tough time deciding between color and black and white for this particular image as there is a decorated tree at the bottom right that seems to disappear [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:04:16-05:00December 16th, 2014|Categories: Old Town|Tags: black and white, fog, State Street|0 Comments

In a Fog on State Street

This image marks the start of 'fog week' with black and white images taken on an incredible foggy night in early December. I shared a few color images from this night last week but have to admit the black and white ones ended up being my favorites. I had six in particular that stood out and am sharing five of those this week. The benefit of black and white, especially when it comes to images of light and fog is that it removes the distraction of color and forces the viewer to focus on textures, lines and gradients. I hope [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:47-05:00December 16th, 2013|Categories: Old Town|Tags: black and white, fog, people, State Street|0 Comments

A Foggy Night in Marblehead – State Street

On Friday, December 5th, Marblehead was enveloped by an incredibly thick layer of fog shortly after sunset. I headed out at 7pm and spent the next two hours capturing scenes of a foggy night in Marblehead. While most of the resulting images were converted to black and white, I kept a few in color. This one of State Street is the first I'll be sharing. You might recognize this composition as it is very similar to 'A Shining Star Over State Street' taken after a snow storm. This was one of the last images I captured in the fog [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:47-05:00December 12th, 2013|Categories: Old Town|Tags: fog, State Street|0 Comments