As a photographer for the Marblehead Weekly News, I spend a lot of time driving from assignment to assignment and in and out of town. I’ve come to look at my windshield as a camera’s viewfinder, framing the world around me. It offers the perfect frame of the sunset lighting up the sky and the waves crashing over the causeway. It captures the snippets of life as I drive … [Read more...] about Photo essay: Just a drop
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Photo Essay: Signs of the (past) times
As an artist, I’m a sucker for vintage signs and advertising. There’s something about the way old signs used to look, how they were displayed, the effort that went into making them, and the way they weathered over the years that just pulls me in. So when Weekly News reporter Ryan Vermette told me that old signage from Marblehead was being hung in the basement of Abbot Hall … [Read more...] about Photo Essay: Signs of the (past) times
Photo Essay: A winter wonder
I know. It's winter, it's cold, it just snowed, there's ice everywhere. But as I sat shivering in my car last Tuesday morning, anxiously waiting for it to warm up, I was struck by the tiny ice crystals that had formed on my windows. As a photographer, I couldn't resist pulling out my phone, switching the camera to macro mode (my favorite iOS feature), and capturing the tiny … [Read more...] about Photo Essay: A winter wonder