The Great Tree at Star of the Sea Cemetery

Every morning, I drive down Lafayette Street and marvel at the great trees the line the center of Star of the Sea Cemetery. This year, the trees seem particularly healthy owing to the snow melt from Winter and the gradual warmup of Spring. As such, I had been determined to photograph them but decided that I needed a foggy day to capture them the way I wanted. On this Thursday morning, we had a thick fog roll in and I thought the conditions might just work. I headed to work a bit early and stopped at the Star of the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:56-05:00May 28th, 2013|Categories: Cemetery|Tags: cemetery, fog, Star of the Sea Cemetery, tree|0 Comments

Marblehead Lighthouse Aglow in the Colors of Sunset

On Saturday, I remember feeling as if weeks had passed since I last went out to take a landscape image. When I looked back at my archive, the real answer was that only 6 days had passed. That being said, my last sunset was 12 days ago...okay, maybe I need help. With that feeling of a need to go out again, I looked out my bedroom window at 7pm and noted some nice clouds and light forming. I 'convinced' the kids to watch just a bit of TV til I got home and got a knowing nod from my wife [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:57-05:00May 20th, 2013|Categories: Sunset|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, sunset, tree|1 Comment

Abbot Public Library in Spring

Spring seemed to take a long time to develop this year and when it did the trees seemed about ready to burst forth out of their Winter dormancy. When April rolled around, I asked for suggestions on trees that were coming to bloom and received a suggestion about this tree at the Abbot Public Library. At the first opportunity, I visited the library and found that I had missed the peak bloom with more than a few petals having fallen to the ground. That being said, the light was incredible and, when the wind picked up just enough, the flag [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:58-05:00May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Spring|Tags: flowers, Spring, tree|0 Comments

Spring Comes to Washington Street

Last week, I shared images taken at Harris Street cemetery and remarked that those three trees might have taken the title from my previous 'favorite tree' in town. Three days after taking those images and, appropriately enough, on a Wednesday, I drove up Washington Street and saw 'my' tree in full bloom. I pulled over and marveled at the tree in its setting with incredible light coming down in the late afternoon. The only problem was the very large truck blocking half of the view. I realized that the house was undergoing some renovations and knocked on the door [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:58-05:00April 30th, 2013|Categories: Spring|Tags: cherry blossoms, house, tree, Washington Street|0 Comments

On a Street Lined with Magnolia Trees

I mentioned in Monday's post that I had gone out on Saturday, April 20th to try to capture trees at peak bloom once the rain finally let up. My first stop was Garnet Street which lies off Beach Street. I had accidentally happened upon this street lined with magnolia trees when I took advantage of the first warm day to take my kids to Devereux beach. Since then, I had been stopping here to check the status of the trees. I had photographed the street on April 17th when the trees had been at peak bloom but wasn't happy with [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:59-05:00April 25th, 2013|Categories: Spring|Tags: flowers, Spring, tree|1 Comment

The Bench Under the Cherry Tree at Harris Street Cemetery

So this is the image I really wanted to capture when I came back to the Harris Street Cemetery on Sunday at sunrise. I had photographed the cemetery and its three beautiful cherry trees at peak bloom the day before but the light was coming from the opposite direction. That made this angle tough to capture as the interior cherry blossoms were in the shadows and the light was just all wrong. I woke at 6am having checked the forecast and noting clear blue skies were expected. That gave me an extra hour of sleep as there was no point [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:59-05:00April 24th, 2013|Categories: Spring|Tags: bench, cemetery, cherry blossoms, flowers, Harris Street Cemetery, Spring, tree|0 Comments

Cherry Blossoms at Peak Bloom – Harris Street Cemetery

Last week I shared images of cherry blossoms taken in the Spring of 2012 and explained that cherry blossoms were forever tied to Spring in my mind after spending several years living in Washington, DC. Over this past weekend, I asked for some help from my 'fans' on Facebook to help me find trees at peak blossom. I was pointed to a few spots around town but one person asked if I had been to the Harris Street Cemetery yet. On Saturday, after the rain let up, I decided to check all the spots recommended to me. I started on [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:59-05:00April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Spring|Tags: cemetery, cherry blossoms, flowers, Harris Street Cemetery, Spring, tree|0 Comments

The Bent Tree on Crowninshield Road

So this has to be one of my favorite trees in Marblehead. There is something about the odd bend in it and its location on the edge of the ocean that makes it instantly appealing. I had struggled with compositions to highlight those characteristics until January 2012 when some great clouds rolled around. As I made my way around town photographing various scenes, I drove along Beacon Street and spotted the tree against the backdrop of those clouds. I pulled over and put on my longest lens to make sure I could get the tree as the focal point of [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:05:59-05:00April 9th, 2013|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, long exposure, tree|0 Comments

Spring Comes to Hammond Park

Repeat after me 'Two More Months'... I don't know about you but this Winter is feeling very loooong after the weekend snow storm following a blizzard. There was no way I was posting a snow photo today so I went back to the archive and found this photo taken on April 14, 2012. You can't beat the view from Hammond Park when the trees start to bloom and a race takes place in the still empty harbor. This was the first photo I captured when I raced to this spot last April. I shared another version with a closer view [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:02-05:00February 18th, 2013|Categories: Spring|Tags: Hammond Park, lighthouse, sailboat, Spring, tree|0 Comments

Long Exposure – The Tree and the Harbor

This image is a year old and has been hanging in my office for just about that long but I just realized that I have never shared it here. In early January 2012 (the same day as my color image of this scene from the end of Doak's Lane), I made this image that was intended as a square crop. The color photo from sunset remains one of my favorites but this black and white is a close second. I love the feel of black and white for these long exposure images (180 seconds in this case). The processing was [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:05-05:00January 22nd, 2013|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, Little Harbor, long exposure, tree|0 Comments