Category: Journeys

  • Rockport, Massachusetts

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    I didn’t visit Rockport by chance. If you’re thinking I wanted to photograph Motif#1, the most popular building in America painted by landscape artists, It’s not true, but let me explain…. I had made the trip out to Gloucester and Cape Ann to capture “Ann’s Eyes”. The twin lighthouses on Thacher Island. The Thacher lights…

    A bright red building sits on a wharf in the left side of the image. the harbor is calm in the last light of the day. A lone sea gull floats on air currents overhead.
  • Megalloway

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    Awake before dawn, I was wrapped in my sleeping bag and some extra blankets. I was warm and didn’t want to get moving. The rental I was driving had more than enough space for sleeping with the seats folded. I was literally “car camping”. This far north and being fall, temperatures were too cool for…

    Pink predawn light reflects on a silhouetted mountain in the distance a calm wide lake stretches out in the foreground of the image.
  • The Sakonnet Point Light

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    In the past, we’d pull on the riding boots and leathers, steering the motorcycles out towards Little Compton. It’s open spaces are sprinkled with farm stands that the local growers sell apples and produce to the families that live out here past the noisy cities of Fall River and Newport. In the fall, it’s squash…

    Sakonnet Point Lighthouse- a white sparkplug lighthouse with clouds and blue sky in the background
  • Wreck Hunting

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    A wrecked ship or boat is a forlorn site. Never to put to sea again, glory days past. I have a love of searching for wrecks of the nautical variety. My favorite finds are wooden ships. These are hard to come by now, as their age has past. The bones of these old ships remind…

    The weathered spine and beams of a wooden sailing ship poke up from the sand on a rocky beach.