Seaside Moonrise

For the first time in what feels like forever, the full moon was set to rise and not clouds or rain threatened to get in the way. I had mapped out the projected location of the moon from several spots including Fort Sewall but decided earlier in the day on a completely different spot. As the sun set, I made my way up the grass hill of Seaside Park and to the backside where it faces the harbor. I found trees in the way so I descended to an open area of granite where I could set up and wait. [...]

By Eyal Oren|2023-08-01T21:30:33-04:00August 1st, 2023|Categories: moon|Tags: causeway, full moon, lamp post, moonrise, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Top 10 of 2022 – #1 Arctic Sunrise over Tinkers Island

Maybe one other first in a top 10 list - the top two entries both feature the same subject; Tinker's Island. As soon as I saw this scene and clicked the shutter, I knew it would end up being one of my favorites of the year. Captured on an arctic morning on January 15th, I had made my way to Devereux Beach hoping for a bit of sea smoke. Rather than shoot towards Marblehead Light, I thought this view would be more interesting. It truly was arctic this morning and I kept dashing back to the car as the sun [...]

By Eyal Oren|2022-12-25T21:04:46-05:00December 30th, 2022|Categories: Favorite|Tags: favorite, sea smoke, sunrise, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Top 10 of 2022 – #2 Tinkering with the Moon

Sometimes all the elements come together perfectly and the final shot ends up being as simple as pressing a shutter thanks to a lot of prep work and a bit of luck... Such was the case when the Hunter's moon rose over Tinker's Island on October 9th. I had planned out the rise of the full moon and had two locations in mind. This one at the end of Bass Rock Lane would offer the best chance for a larger-than-life moon thanks to the distance. With my longest lens on and pushed out to 400mm, I was able to compress [...]

By Eyal Oren|2022-12-25T20:58:05-05:00December 29th, 2022|Categories: Favorite|Tags: favorite, full moon, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Tinkering with the Moon

Somehow I had convinced myself that the full Hunter's moon was last night and ran around to three different spots capturing the moon rising well before sunset. Then I realized this afternoon that the moon was only at 100% as of 4:55pm. With that in mind, I pulled out my app for predicting the moonrise and came up with two options - Childrens or Tinkers... I decided to check out Tinkers first which meant driving to Spray Avenue and bringing along my longest zoom lens. By taking advantage of the full 400mm length of the lens (and cropping a bit [...]

By Eyal Oren|2022-10-09T19:31:39-04:00October 9th, 2022|Categories: moon|Tags: full moon, moonrise, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Above the Smoke

Continuing with the morning of January 15th, when the sun rose behind Tinker's Island it created incredible backlight on the smoke rising from the Atlantic Ocean. Once the sun had risen high enough in the sky, I tried to capture more images of the smoke coming off of each wave as it approached the shore. Here I lucked out with a lone bird whose feathers are backlit by the risen sun.

By Eyal Oren|2022-01-23T20:50:42-05:00January 26th, 2022|Categories: Island|Tags: bird, sea smoke, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Arctic Sunrise over Tinkers Island

What a morning - and I thought it was cold on Tuesday... So on Tuesday the 11th, I had gone out before work to capture sea smoke and found just a hint of it to be found from along Front Street. With this morning's projected temperatures to be even lower, I thought I had a better chance despite the predictions for high winds. This time I headed for Devereux Beach knowing that the sun would rise over Tinker's Island and serve to backlight the rising steam from the Atlantic ocean. I arrived at 7am and dound some really nice sea [...]

By Eyal Oren|2022-01-15T09:40:53-05:00January 15th, 2022|Categories: Island|Tags: sea smoke, sunrise, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Tinkering at Dawn

This was not what I had envisioned shooting this morning... I had set out early in the hopes of capturing the setting moon as the cloud predictions suggested a break near the horizon line but as I sat and watched the sky lighten, I realized the moon was not going to show. I had stopped at Devereux Beach on Wednesday midway between shooting the sunrise from Front Street and the second part of the sunrise from across the causeway. When I did, I had spotted the sun behind Tinker's Island and that led me to pull over at the parking [...]

By Eyal Oren|2021-12-18T07:53:17-05:00December 18th, 2021|Categories: Sunrise|Tags: dawn, Tinkers island|0 Comments

$Fractured storm clouds called stratus fractus form over Tinkers Island$

Fractured Clouds over Tinkers

On Wednesday night, I headed to Riverhead Beach as a storm approached Marblehead. I started off shooting the harbor at low tide but kept looking over my shoulder at dark storm clouds over Tinkers Island and the interesting tendrils underneath. I did some research after returning home and discovered these are called stratus fractus for their fractured appearance. The contrast between the dark clouds and dark ocean separated by the waning light of day behind Tinkers Island impressed me while standing on the causeway and was fun to process when I returned home.

By Eyal Oren|2020-08-20T22:40:55-04:00August 21st, 2020|Categories: Storm|Tags: clouds, Tinkers island|0 Comments

The Young Man and the Sea

While I waited for the moon to rise on July 4th, I decided to look out from the back side of Castle Rock towards Tinkers Island. From there I spotted a young man standing between waves coming ashore and fishing off the Neck. When the waves broke just right, they helped bring the man into contrast and I tried to time this shot to maximize the effect. With Tinkers blurred slightly by the wide open aperture and picking up the last light of sunset, the photo had the feeling of a painting as soon as I clicked the shutter button.

By Eyal Oren|2020-07-15T22:52:49-04:00July 16th, 2020|Categories: Marblehead Neck|Tags: ocean, people, Tinkers island|0 Comments

Cloudy with a Chance of Tinkers

This may well be the single worst title I have every come up with for a post in the nearly 10 years of Wednesdays in Marblehead. I'm not sure if it's the quarantine or the fact that no one could tell me what type of clouds these were (stratocumulus???). In any event, if you audibly groaned at the title, you have my apologies. What's a bit more interesting is that I've held off posting this shot since I captured it on May 12, 2015. I looked back to its spot in my catalogue and immediately remembered the night from the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2020-04-27T21:52:56-04:00April 28th, 2020|Categories: Island|Tags: clouds, Tinkers island|0 Comments