An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Category: Photography

  • The Highland Light

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    A storm front is approaching the Cape from the sea. Or is it?

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    snowpackjack
    A deep blue cloudy sky at nighfall. Below a lightkeepers house with a white lighthouse tower flashes a white beacon from it's lens. A window in the keepers house glows with a warm yellow colr.

  • Coast Walking

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    Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Maine, USA ©lifeasjack.com All rights reserved. When I was a lad, you walked along the shore to explore. To build sand castles with deep moats, gleeful to watch their slow destruction by the unstoppable forces of the incoming tides. You discovered the flotsam and jetsam delivered by the salty waves upon the…

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    snowpackjack
    A derelict kayak is half buried in beach sand, abandoned. In the foreground is a tattered life vest, crusted with sand.

  • Defining Truth and Fiction

    I worked for a while in the photography business. I think most agree that survival requires some key talent in the niche you’re in. Maybe street shooting and photojournalism is speed and quick thinking. I would say in any outdoor situation lighting is managed, not controlled. In my collaborations with commercial shooters it was all…

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    snowpackjack
    A wooden skiff is ashore on a beach of straw, seagrass and shells. The sea is in the background. The image is black and white.

  • Seeking Judith

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    Point Judith Lighthouse, Narragansett, Rhode Island USA ©lifeasjack.com All rights reserved. Stretching a mile out into the ocean, Point Judith would earn a nickname among mariners as “the graveyard of the Atlantic.” While this moniker has been shared among many locations along the Atlantic seaboard, the Point’s conditions often include heavy seas and dense fog.…

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    snowpackjack
    A red topped lighthouse with out building sits on a stretch of grassy shoreline. A red roofed coast guard station is to the left. The sky is light blue. seas are deep blue with small waves