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I shoot most of the photographs on on Martha's Vineyard.
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Christmas Light Painting
Old Marine Hospital
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I got to go inside the old Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven with my friend Chris Pettit and shoot the abandoned operating rooms, wards, hallways, and lots of other creepy stuff. Soon it will be the home of the Martha's Vineyard Museum, but for now it's a very interesting place. Lots of patterns, urban decay, and old, old relics of another era. It wasn't like shooting a sunset.
Harvest Moonlight at Quansoo
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Sad Kingdom
Wynton Marsalis at the Tabernacle
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The Zipper
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Martha's Vineyard Cloud
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Farr 40 North American Champhionship Regatta
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I spent a great day on the water shooting the Farr 40 North American Championship Regatta. This shot is a bit of a cliche, lots of people have made similar pictures, but I like it. That third boat from the port side is just screwing up the spacing a bit. I got reacquainted with Daniel Forster, who I met years ago on an assignment. He is a terrific photographer and I learned a lot just watching how he positioned the photo boat. He was very generous with his knowledge. In addition to a great day for making pictures, it was a great day of racing. First photo boat I have ever been on that had its own chef. Below are some more pictures.
Sophie's Reflection
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Finally, the gray, gray weather broke. For the past three mornings, I have been up early in hot, sunny, weather with no wind, zipping about Vineyard Haven Harbor trying to catch boat reflections. I got such good reaction to my red boat shot, I want to use the same technique, focusing on a small part of the boat that illustrates pleasing lines and a reflection.
Sophie is a gorgeous 90 foot wooden sloop, in the harbor for the past two summers. I got several shots, and I like this one best.
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Richard Donahue, Boston Pops
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He turned around to see the crowd for only a few seconds, and for once, I was ready. I nailed the shutter and fired six frames per second. Good thing Nikon has good auto-focus, because I could see absolutely nothing through the tears.
Vineyard Haven Super Moon
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This was a 54 hours before optimum time to shoot the Super Moon. I was on my way to the Ghost Channel to take advantage of a very low tide. Spent 2.5 hours there standing in the water, got no shot. (OK, 45 minutes of that was fishing.) I shot this on the way there, about 3:50 a.m., from Eastville. The moon is not quite full, and the amount of moisture in the air gives the moon an orange tint, but it also makes the edges fuzzy. I spent a total of 5 minutes on the shot. It turned out OK. Go figure. I spent the next two days chasing the moon, thwarted entirely by fog, clouds, fog, and more clouds.
Cold Front, Comin' Through.
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Cedar Tree Neck Sunset
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Red Boat
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Full Moon Over East Chop
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Lettuce Be Friends
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Beach Textures
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Vineyard Haven Fog
Golden Sail on Menemsha Bight
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Wet Wisteria Hysteria
Orb Wins Kentucky Derby
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I really need a faster lens for this kind of shot, but a lot of time behind the viewfinder has helped me understand how to push the camera when I have to.
My vantage point was the winner's circle at Churchill Downs, where you can't see any part of the race except the finish. He is a striking colt, though not at all flattered by mud. At the moment he is the only 3-year-old on the planet with a chance to win the Triple Crown.
Maybe the best, and certainly the most loved turf writer ever, the late Joe Hirsch, always told us forget picking a winner, root for the best story. Joe would have loved this. Trainer Shug McGaughey capped a stellar career with this first Derby win for owners and breeders Stuart Janney III and Dinny Phipps.
Before Dawn at Churchill Downs
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Moet on Ice
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Blue Ice Forest at the Edge of Blue Ice Lake
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I like this bizarre abstract. No one can guess what it is. It is actually ice crystals in the bottom of my recycling bin. I noticed the ice crystals, and tried to preserve some in the freezer. That didn't work. I tried to hold a chunk of ice in my hand, and shoot with the other hand. That didn't work. By the time I figured out how to put the bin on top of my car with the morning sunlight at just the right angle, the crystals had melted a bit, and this is the result. The crystals look like a forest, but they are really just five or six millimeters high.
Ocean Park Gazebo
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Quansoo Reflection
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Happenstance is a wonderful thing. I was at Quansoo (see previous image) when I saw two beautiful swans in a tidal marsh. I slogged through, but the swans were having none of it, and swam away. The water was still, and the sky reflected in the pond. I got this shot just as the sun dipped below the horizon. I'm not nuts about the colors, but many people like this photograph.
Quansoo Sunset
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Quansoo is a private beach, natural and undeveloped, with high dunes and crashing surf. Though beautiful, it is not usually interesting to photograph, just sand and water in pretty much the same proportion a far as you can see. On this day, I walked behind the dunes through a fairly dry marsh, and saw these reeds just across a tidal creek. The reeds block enough light so the sun doesn't blast out the image, and captured the golden glow perfectly.
Chicken
Old Wooden Groin
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Island Theater
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The post above proves I have never been able to tell left from right. I disagree with the whole concept anyway.
Ferry Bridge Sunset
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I'm sure the crew on the bridge thought I was nuts, jumping around on the chairs trying to get just the right angle before the colors disappeared. Eli Dagostino, a terrific young photographer, happened to be on the boat. I'm sure he thought I was nuts, too.
Dawn at Lucy Vincent Beach
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This is the first picture I made that I thought might be of interest to somebody besides me. The long exposure gives the surf swirling around the rocks on Lucy Vincent Beach an ethereal effect. I am on this beach two or three times a week in the off-season. It's amazing how different each day looks, with the variables of light, surf, tide, and wind.
Erosion has changed it radically since I made this picture. Most of the rocks are gone, and a few new ones have washed up in violent ocean storms. The clay cliff on the left side of the picture has mostly fallen down in a pile of glacial rubble.
Zen Morning at Ghost Channel
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I love this location and shoot here often. The light is always different. The rocks form an old channel that led into a harbor long sealed off by the shifting sand of the Martha's Vineyard shoreline. My friend Chris Pettit dubbed it the ghost channel. On this morning, the colors of first light were especially vivid, and the image evokes a feeling of calmness for me.
Governor's Light
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Chappy Ferry Light
Into the Fog
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We get some fog on Martha's Vineyard, though not as much as Maine. It was really thick this afternoon in Vineyard Haven Harbor. I was hoping the M/V Martha's Vineyard would slide into position behind the schooner Alabama, and the shot came together for a few seconds. This was around holiday time, because Alabama is flying small evergreen trees from her topmasts. It's an old seafaring tradition that dates back hundreds of years.
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