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Man at the wheel
A video and song about the perfect storm by Earl and Arch. A great tribute to the fishermen who lost there lives at sea in Gloucester. We try to visit Gloucester as often as we can. Cape Ann is one of my favorite places to photograph. My brother-in-law, Todd lives in Plum Cove and is a photographer, too. You can visit his website at Plum Cove Photography.
Video from a Post on GoodMorningGloucester
Cape Ann is located on the coast some 43 miles northeast of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the towns of Rockport and Gloucester and is home of The Second Annual Lobsta Fest and Seafood Extravaganza! The photos in this gallery were also shot in Essex, Magnolia and Manchester by the Sea. Autumn in Massachusetts may be the best in the country. Some of my favorite locations on Cape Ann are Plum Cove, Lanes Cove, Rockport Harbor, Gloucester Harbor, Rocky Neck, Atlantic Road, Halibut Point, Buswell Pond, Annisquam, Lobster Cove and Hoop Pole Cove. All of these locations afford excellent photo opportunities. I would love to photograph Cape Ann in the winter but, the weather is too unpredictable. So I will have to leave the winter photos for my brother-in-law, Todd Harrington, of Plum Cove Photography, who lives in Gloucester.
Many of the photos in this Slideshoe were processed in HDR. For more information on HDR or High Dynamic-Range photography and the program I use, Photomatix Pro 3.1, click on the links below!. Photomatix Pro 3.1 is a standalone program and also has Plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.
Massachusetts is rich in history and old cemeteries. To visit and photograph the Old Burying Grounds of Massachusetts in Autumn is incredible. The old maple trees are huge and beautiful, with bright fall colors of yellows, oranges and reds. The last trip to Massachusetts we went out looking for dead relatives for our genealogy project. You see both my wife and I have ancestors in the area that date back to the first settlers of this great country. Finding grave stones of many of our ancestors is a thrill and trying to imagine what life was like back then. I would like to sit down to dinner with our ancestors to visit with them to find out what they were like. The photos in this gallery were shot in the town cemeteries of Ipswich, Harvard, Shirley, Essex, Groton, Newburyport and Lexington. It’s a step back in time. It’s a chance to understand what our Founding Father’s sacrificed for us.
On Veterans Day we thank all the that serve in our armed forces and we remember the ones in our family that served.
Moses Souther, Lucy Jackson Souther, Luke Bartlett, Robert Prentice, Matthew Mayhew, William Whitcomb, Samuel Keeler,
Henry Warner Souther
Arthur Christian Niedermiller
Arthur Reginald Houghton
Howard A. Niedermiller, Courtland Gordon Harrington, John Henry Pretty
Herbert Charles Niedermiller
Autumn In Lexington Massachusetts
Map of Lexington Massachusetts
Cape Ann is located 43 miles northeast of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the towns of Rockport and Gloucester. Gloucester is America’s first seaport established in 1623, some 7 years before Boston. A nor’easter is a circular storm were the winds come from the northeast with the worst having hurricane force winds. The photos in this gallery were shot after a small nor’easter storm with gale force winds. I can only imagine how bad a really big storm would be, like the storm of September 1991, which was made into a movie about the Andrea Gail in The Perfect Storm. The seaport of Gloucester has lost more than 5000 fishermen in the last 386 years.
Most of the photos in this sideshow were taken on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. This includes the towns of Rockport & Gloucester. Some photos were shoton Plum Island and Maine.
I grew up in the town of Warren, Michigan, just north of Detroit, but this is not about Warren and when I was born my parents bought a piece of land in Greenbush, Michigan, on Lake Huron. Shortly after that they built a small cabin which my mother still owns today. I have fond memories of weekends and summers spent up north at the cabin. We have lived in several places around the country like Palmer, Massachusetts, Phoenix, Arizona, and our home for the last 16 years Colorado Springs, but I always look forward to a visit to the cabin up north in Greenbush. The photos in this gallery were taken in Northern Michigan which includes the areas around the towns of Oscoda, Greenbush, Harrisville, Presque Isle, Travers City, Northport and The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. I hope you enjoy the photos of my home in Michigan. My next trip to Michigan. I plan to travel to the upper Peninsula and the North Shore of Lake Superior in Canada.
Click photo below to view photo slideshow of up north Michigan
Alaska’s Inside Passage & Canada - Alaska is a rugged and beautiful place to photograph. We visited Alaska by cruise ship. While the ship was a great place to view and photograph the glaciers and the inside passage, as a photographer there was not enough time spent on land. My next trip will be by motor home. For a review of Alaska and the cruse ship (coming in the future) and other great destinations visit our other site at DCM Travel Reviews.
Alaska: A Photographic Excursion [Hardcover]
Frommer’s Alaska 2011 (Frommer’s Color Complete) [Paperback]
Lonely Planet Alaska (Regional Travel Guide) [Paperback]
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