An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: Photography

  • The Nauset Light

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    Constantly being chased by the sea, this light is all that and a bag of chips…

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    snowpackjack

  • The Discarded

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    Walking the beach, I spied a boat on the edge of the marsh. I’ve owned boats both wood and fiberglass and have strong opinions on them. The care for a wooden boat is without end, and can be a chore or labor of love, but fiberglass boat does not hold a place in my heart.…

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    snowpackjack
    A white fibberglass sailboat sits abandoned in a salt marsh, overgrown with vines and weeds. in the distance are boats at mooring on a cloudy day.

  • 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…

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    snowpackjack
    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.

  • 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…

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