Hey all its been awhile since I posted! Here is a B&W photo I took a couple months back of a lighthouse in Maine.

Also I wanted to let everyone know that the 2012 Fotoblography calendars are now available for purchase! I made a New England 2012 Scenic calendar and a 2012 Flower Calendar. Check them out here! Right now they are 25% off.

Thought this was pretty cool and makes for a good silly Tuesday photo! Over the weekend this bulldozer type machine was picking up the pipes used on the beach for dredging. With the sand pouring out looking like smoke and ashes and the angle the pipe was being lifted it looked to me  like this bulldozer was smoking a cigarette.

Hi all! Sorry I have not posted any photos in awhile or visited your photoblogs.  I am going to try to get more active again! Went to the White Mountains in NH this past weekend and have some shots from there to post. For now this is another shot from Rockport Harbor.

Also I have finally joined twitter! So feel free to follow me if you want to see tweets about my oh so exciting life lol :). I also will update it when I post new photos and have other photography stuff that I want to tweet about! I put a Twitter widget on this page as well so just scroll down a little to see it.

Ok thats all for now! Glad to be back posting again!

It may be a bit hard to see on this smaller version of the photo but on the mooring ball of the sailboat there is a bird with his wings all stretched out! Thought that was pretty cool. If you click the photo to make it larger you should be able to see the bird better.

This rock was overflowing with colors and life. It was sort of like its own little planet with its own ecosystem!

Took this shot last summer overlooking Rockport Harbor in Rockport, MA.

About a week or so ago I was dog sitting for my brothers pug puppy (you can see a photo of him much younger here) and decided to take him to the beach! It was his first time there and he had a blast. He would run towards the waves when they went out and run away when they came in. Also as you can see he loved digging around in the sand with his nose!

I just realized that today is the 2 year birthday of my photoblog!! Wow I cant believe its been two years already. Time flies. I want to thank all the regular commenters  and visitors as without your encouragement I doubt I would still be posting photos! I really do appreciate your visits and comments alot! Here is hoping this coming year on Fotoblography.com  is a good one and the camera keeps clicking.

-Andy

I processed this shot pretty heavily and eventually decided I liked this one the most. It has a sort of desolate feel to it that I liked. What do you think did I over-process it?

Here is an interesting trivia question. What building in the USA is the the most often-painted building by artists? According to Wikipedia it is this little red building in Rockport MA known simply as Motif Number 1.

I took this photo from inside a gift shop overlooking Rockport Harbor. Its easier to see the details in this photo when you click on the image to make it larger.

A few weeks ago I went to Rockport,  MA for the first time.  I definitely will be going back as I found it a really charming New England harbor town!

I took this photo this past weekend at Hampton Beach, NH. There were not many people around because of Hurricane Bill. Luckily the Hurricane missed New England for the most part.

You could not pay me to get on this boat! I don’t think this boat will be above water for much longer.

I never got around to posting this photo from my Nubble Lighthouse series so I figured now was as good a time as any!

Just thought this was funny seeing this guy with his laptop and headphones on this old looking Tall Ship!

Another photo in my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series. Here is the tall ship Capitan Miranda.

Here is some info about the ship:

Name: Capitan Miranda
Homeport: Montevideo, Uruguay
Rig: Staysail Schooner
Sparred Length: 205’
Draft: 12’
Beam: 27’
Hull: Steel

Continuing my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series. This was by far the larget of the Tall Ships that I saw in Boston a couple of weeks ago.

Here is some info about the ship:

Name: Kruzenshtern
Homeport: Kaliningrad, Russia
Rig: Four-Masted Barque
Sparred Length: 376′
Draft: 19′
Beam: 46′
Hull: Steel

This fire ship was putting on a show the day of the Tall Ships in Boston and shooting its hoses into the air.

Also just want to let everyone know I will not have internet access for the next week so I will not be able to visit or comment on your blogs. I  have setup my blog to auto-post some photos over the next week though so if you want to stop by it is always appreciated!

This is the fifth photo in my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series. Here are some of the smaller Tall Ships as seen through this poem on glass entitled “New England Ode”.

A view of Boston Harbor from the back of the Tall Ship Mircea. This is the fourth photo in my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series.

The third picture in my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series. Here is a sailor observing the scene and large crowds while aboard his ship. In the background you can see the Tall Ship Mircea that I posted a photo of last time.

Here is the second photo in my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series. This ship named “Mircea” was one my favorites of the tall ships that I saw on Saturday.

Here is some info about the ship:

Name: Mircea
Homeport: Constanta, Romania
Rig: Barque
Sparred Length: 270’
Draft: 18’
Beam: 39’ 6”
Hull: Steel

This it the first photo in my Boston Tall Ships 2009 series. Yesterday I went to the 2009 Boston Tall Ships event in Boston, MA. There were over 40 of these tall ships from around the world docked all around Boston that you can look at and tour. Sadly because of budget cuts there was no “Parade of Sails” this year so there was no opportunity to see these boats under sail. Still was a great event though! The Tall Ships will be in Boston until July 13th so if you are in the area I recommend checking them out! I will be posting more photos from the Tall Ships event over the coming days so stay tuned!

Here is some info about the ship:

Name: Sagres
Homeport: Lisbon, Portugal
Rig: Barque
Sparred Length: 293’ 6″
Draft: 17’
Beam: 39′ 6″
Hull: Steel

Wonder if he found any buried treasures?

These Ducks tucked their heads in when I came near. I think they where cleaning themselves but it looks like they are trying to hide! Or maybe they were mad at me for interupting their romantic seaside date so they gave me the cold shoulder?

I wanted to show this angle of the Nubble Lighthouse so that the white trolley system to the left could be more easily seen. This trolley was used to transport supplies and food to the Light Keepers who lived on the island.  One interesting story I read about online told how one of the Light Keepers from the 1960’s used to put his children in this basket everyday to ferry them across the ocean for school. When a photo appeared of one of the children in the basket suspended over the water in the local newspaper the district commander decided to ban families with school age children from living on the island. If your interested in reading a lot more history about the Nubble lighthouse and want to see the famous photo from the 1960’s of the child  in the trolley above the water check out this very  informative Light House website.

Forget a quarter this seagull was not going to let anyone use this viewfinder at the Nubble Lighthouse unless they paid him with some treats!

Here is the primary reason I went to Maine in the first place to take photos of my favorite lighthouse the “Nubble Lighthouse” (also known as The Cape Neddick Lighthouse).  This lighthouse is located in York, Maine. The lighthouse was built in 1879 and has been in continuous service since.  A light keeper lived on this island until the lighthouse was automated in 1987.

On this particular day it was so foggy that the foghorn on the lighthouse was blasting every 10 seconds or so to warn sailors who could not see the light.  Starting today I am going to start a series featuring photos I took of  the Nubble Lighthouse on this foggy day.

Taken the same day as my other “foggy” Maine shots. It was a cold March day but there were already surfers enjoying the waves! The fog and the black wetsuit combine to make the surfer look like a  shadow.

This walkway and bouncy green suspension bridge lead to a cool little island with a nature preserve and trail to hike on. There was a surprising number of people out and about despite the foggy weather.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I thought this poem entitled “The Rainy Day” was perfect for this photo since Longfellow was from Maine and this shot I took of a sailboat moored in the fog was taken in Maine.

Pretty cool name for this fishing boat in Plymouth Harbor.

On Christmas day I went to my Uncle’s house and he lives right by the ocean. Here is a shot of the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge as seen from his back yard.

Since so many people where trying to figure out what “The Blue Thing” was in my last post I thought it would be fun to post a different  photo than I planned to today of “The Blue Thing” and name todays post after the comments that many people made yesterday wondering what it was. So here is the Salem Water Tower in all its glory. Thanks for helping me come up with a title! 

Here is a photo I took of Salem Harbor a couple of days ago.

I wouldn’t mess with this pillar it looks like it can take a punch…or a nail.

Behind the Lobster Company there was a cool surprise, actual America’s Cup Sailboats that had competed in the famous sailing race!

Here is the view from the free lookout point that is behind the Aquidneck Lobster Company that I posted about in my last blog post.

I will be on vacation for a week with no internet in NH starting tomorrow so I will not be able to reply to comments until next week but I have setup my blog to automatically post a few photos I have setup in advance so there is still new stuff on my blog while I am away. As always comments are appreciated and you can be sure I will read and reply to any comments I get when I return! Anyways I will be back in a week and I hope to take some good photos to post here while on vacation.

This photo of the Seagull with his reflection in the wet sand was taken at Hampton Beach, NH.

This was taken that same foggy day at the beach as the Life Guard Photo. I was just taking a general shot of the beach with the fog and it was not until later that I noticed this woman in a red dress who seemed to be posing for a picture. Maybe someone else was taking her photo the same time I took mine? In any event I thought she really stood out in her red dress compared to everyone else in bathing suits. This photo has been heavily cropped and I also desaturated most of the colors except for her.