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I shoot most of the photographs on on Martha's Vineyard.
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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.
Martha's Vineyard Dawn
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This was a very, very cold morning, without a breath of wind. At first I wasn't thinking much about the reflection, but I noticed the crescent moon reflecting in the water and started concentrating on composing the shot to accentuate the mirror image. This is a little strip of barrier beach at Harthaven in Oak Bluffs, on Martha's Vineyard. It's a very sharp photograph, and it will print well in large sizes.
Full Moon Over East Chop
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Here's my philosophy on altering pictures. Almost all of my pictures are processed in Lightroom 4, an Adobe program that allows me to correct exposures, crop, and tweak colors. I try very hard to recreate what my eye saw, and often that means compensating for the things a camera cannot do. I never add or subtract things from a photo.
This was a tough shot because there wasn't much light left, and I had to shoot slow. I was on a boat, where a tripod is useless. I probably shot 30 frames at very low shutter speeds. Most of them were blurred because the camera was moving (on the boat), but this one came out sharp.
Work Boat
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Ocean Park Fireworks
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This is one of my favorite photographs. It is easy to get a shot of fireworks, but difficult to get a shot with something dark in the foreground, and without smoke from the previous bursts dulling down the shot. This was a result of many furious experiments with camera controls, in the dark. The August fireworks in Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs, on Martha's Vineyard, are the best I've every seen. The 2013 fireworks are scheduled for August 16.
Dawn at Gay Head
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My friend Chris Pettit and I were shooting the full moon behind Gay Head Light, but the colors of dawn always catch my eye, so I swiveled around and shot this photograph of first light creeping toward the famous clay cliffs.
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