Fireworks above Marblehead MA

The fireworks 4th of July fireworks  once again fly over Marblehead and yet again gives justification to their being selected as Coastal Magazines #1 fireworks display on the east coast. and as usual I’m back out there looking for a new vantage point to capture the fireworks.  This is a shot from Fort Beach just below Fort Sewall. and more can be seen here.

The location is a quaint sea town that has grown up on the sea trade over the years and here Independence Day continues to take on an important meaning.

Fort Sewall’s (the row of flares on the left) most important moment in history was on Sunday, April 3, 1814 when the U.S. Navy’s Constitution, being chased by two British frigates, escaped into Marblehead Harbor under the protection of the fort’s guns.

Here in this picture you can see Fort Sewall on the left point of land with the flares glowing.

The flares are part of Marblehead’s Harbor Illumination where the town hands out flares for residents to put along any of their properties that have water frontage.  Then, Glover’s regiment fires a canon to let everyone on the harbor know that it’s time to light their flares all at the same time.  It makes everyone jump at least a foot and no one has any doubts that a canon was just fired…

This is quite the sight to see and you can make yourself very comfortable up in Crocker Park because they have bands playing up till the fireworks starts and then afterward the music continues, all as part of the Marblehead Festival of the Arts. But! get there early and bring your blanket to get a good spot.

I’ve captured the Marblehead fireworks for a few years now and more shots from this year and years past can be seen by clicking here.

Here is a link to the to the Marblehead Festival of the Arts web page if you want to read more about this event.

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I had an excuse to get out to Rockport yesterday I had a wedding consult request for Vistaphotography for a June wedding on the headlands of the Rockport harbor and I decided to get up there

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veeery early and try to shoot the sunrise.  I got to bed at midnight and somehow got myself back up at 4:30ish to arrive at Rockport just after sunrise and as you can see here the sun had already cleared the horizon.  I was lucky because I was in a hurry so I didn’t put the filter adapter on the camera and I didn’t run with the ND grad filters to lesson the impact of shooting into the sun.

Even if I had the grad filters on the camera lens, they work best if the horizon is straight which is not the case with Motif #1 in the view. What saved me this morning was that there were just enough clouds to diffuse the rising sun which also led to the intense cloud colors.  You don’t have long to catch scenes like this and I was lucky this day. Normally you have to be in place and waiting for it with a plan of how you’re going to shoot it.

I knew from previous trips that I wanted to be somewhere at the end of the harbor but I had to make a decision and just go with it. I don’t think I made too bad of a choice but I bet I could do better.

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This weekend has for almost 60 years been the home coming event for Rockport and in recent years they have tried to grow it into something very special. So the weekend prior to Memorial day weekend they have this two day party in the streets and they do the town up right.

I walked up Bear Skin Neck rd as the only traveler and I was suddenly pulled to the right by an heavenly smell of fresh brewed coffee and some sort of pastry. In front of me was Helmut’s Strudel and I was unhappy as it was not quite 6AM so I walked past to the neck and I set up for some shots of the harbor from the point.  If I had more room I would post the sun dog that appeared in the clouds but here is a link to my gallery. Later this morning while I walked around the town I   listened to some of the great musicians that had taken up positions in front of several stores in iconic Rockport’s art district.

This is a short clip of the live jazz band on the street they are called “Jazz in the Air” and they were very good.   Bob Sabourin of Jazz in the Air can be found at Jazz in the air.com or email him at jazzintheair@hotmail.com.

I also found a Irish singer with Celtic band back in front of Helmut’s Strudel They were as good as anything I’d ever heard on TV or in my travels overseas. If you would like to contact the Celtic singer his name is Michael O’Leary and can be reached at celtsinger@gmail.com.

This is it for now I hope you enjoy this quick trip around Rockport Ma during their Motif #1 days.
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I’m Jeff Folger of Vistaphotography here in Salem MA.  As a Salem Photographer I was hired to moderate  a weekly fan page for Yankee’s New England Photography FB page which spot lights people’s views of New England.

My goal is to allow anyone to share their view of New England on the page and tell us what they think is really special to them about being in or visiting New England.

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Once here you can see what views make people think of New England. and maybe you’ll share your views too?  I’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject.. What do you like or dislike about New England???

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Morning light on church.. For those who read the blog daily.. ok maybe weekly? You will remember the gazebo that I found in northern Vermont…