Here is another shot from Hampton Beach from a couple of weeks ago. I got down on my knees to try and show some of the incoming waves at eye level. Granted the waves are not very big but I still liked the shot.

I thought this small fishing boat had alot of character so of course I took a photo of it. I desaturated the photo quite a bit so the boat would stand out better. I think it works pretty good.

Here is a shot of a stone pier in Kennebunkport Maine.

I took this photo the same day that I took the photo of the foggy sailboat race that I posted last week. I am sure the lifeguard had to pay extra close attention to the people in the water with this thick fog.

Believe it or not this photo was taken on the same day as the sand sculpture photos I have been posting. A thick fog rolled in later in the day and you could barely see in front of you. There was a sailboat race going on that day and just minutes earlier you could see them clear as day but could barely see them at all once the fog rolled in. If you want to see a clear shot of the sailboats before the fog to compare it to after the fog then click here.

Here is a shot of one of the master sand sculptors from last weekend hard at work perfecting his sculpture. If you click the image to make it larger you can see he is actually making the eyebrow in this shot.

I could post these sand sculpture photos forever if I keep posting only one a day and I don’t want people to get bored. So I decided to make a gallery with the the rest of my favorites so I am not only posting sand sculpture pictures for the next month! Hopefully everyone has enjoyed these sand sculpture photos. Just click on the thumbnails of the photos in the gallery below to make them bigger. » Continue Reading…

Here are the master sand sculptors hard at work.

There was an advertising area for sponsors of the event that all of the sand sculptors worked on together in between working on their individual contest entries. This is one of my favorites of the sand ads! This is the final form of the monkey that I posted last week. It ended up alot different then I would have imagined based on the early version. I had no idea he would be riding on an elephant!

On Saturday I went to the annual Hampton Beach sand sculpture contest. The works of art that the sculptors made out of sand were amazing to say the least. This one of the sun I think was my favorite sand sculpture of the contest.

Over the next few days I will be posting some more of my favorite shots from the sand sculpture contest so be sure to come back.

Well I just got back from Hampton Beach again. I ended up going back to Hampton Beach today because I really wanted to see how the sand sculptures turned out that I posted about last week.  I took so many photos of them that I don’t have time to go through them right now and pick one to post. I still wanted to post a photo so instead here is one that I really liked from today of  a lifeguard station on the beach. I really liked the intense orange color against the blue sky and ocean.

I will start to post some of my favorite sand sculpture shots starting tomorrow so stay tuned.

On my way home from Hampton Beach I stopped to go fishing with my father in this spot right across the bay from the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. No three eyed fish where caught

At Hampton Beach they are having their annual Sand Castle competition this week. The day I was there the contestants where just starting to make their sand castles. This partial sand castle featuring a monkey was the only one that had a recognizable shape on that day. If you want to see some of the amazing entries from last year check out the official Hampton Beach Sand Castle Gallery.

I was walking on the beach and came upon an odd site. A tire that was in good shape just sticking out of the sand as if it where one of the rocks nearby it. I am not sure how it got there maybe it washed ashore? Strange how it was perfectly standing there though.

Here is a photo I took of Marblehead Harbor in January. On the far right you can see a rather average looking lighthouse that is not very pretty (it looks sort of like an oil well or something) but it gets the job done.

I took this photo of this old and weathered house in Kennebunkport Maine. It must be nice to live literally right on the water like that. It was a very calm and peaceful fall day as you can see by the reflections of the house supports.

This photo was taken in Newport, RI last summer. There was a lone fisherman on some rocks with waves crashing all around him. He must have been pretty dedicated because I am sure he got pretty wet as I remember a few of the waves got pretty close to him.

It was a very busy day on Gloucester Harbor last Labor Day weekend when I took this photo as you can see. I found this interesting because every type of boat imaginable is in the picture. From speedboats, to fishing boats, sailboats, and in the distance dwarfing them all a giant warship. There is even a barge of some sort to the left. The term organized chaos comes to my mind seeing all these boats zooming around in every direction!

This is a photo I shot of a monument to lost sailors that was overlooking the ocean in Maine. I really like how the b&w conversion came out and it actually makes it easier to see the details of the lighthouses that are carved into the monument then when it was in color. If you look closely you can see the Nubble Lighthouse carved on the left hand site of the monument. If you remember I posted a photo I took of the Nubble Lighthouse earlier if you want to compare the carving to the lighthouse.

Sometimes you just get lucky when taking a picture. That was the case with this photo I took of the Nubble Lighthouse in Maine. I was just setting up to take a normal picture of the lighthouse but by the time the shutter clicked I ended up getting a seagull in the foreground of the picture that was totally unplanned but something I think enhances the image. The seagull gives a little life to the image since this picture was taken in March when there was still snow on the ground and the grass was brown.

There was not much sand on this beach in Maine so some ingenious people decided to build rock castles instead of sand castles! Of least these should be a bit more sturdy then their sand castle counterparts and harder for troublemakers to destroy to. I kneeled down at eye level with the castles to get the view of the ocean from the castles perspective. Hmm I wonder if these castles rent rooms with ocean waterfront views like that!

I recently read a very good article on several different black and white conversion processes on Matt Greer’s Photography Blog. I had taken this picture of some reeds by the ocean that had some very dramatic looking clouds that I thought would look great in black and white so I decided to test a few of the methods he mentioned on this photo and share the results on my blog.

First here is the original photo in color. Like I said I am pretty happy with this shot but It just seemed like this photo was asking to be converted to black and white. Now to see how the conversions turned out: » Continue Reading…

I took this picture the same day that I took this photo of the sailboat in Kennebunkport Maine that I posted last month. I did not plan for the boat to be so out of focus but the effect is really growing on me. It gives the boat a hazy quality that almost makes it seem like a dream. What do you think do you prefer this dreamlike version of the sailboat or the original one I posted?

I took this picture in the fall while at Kennebunkport Maine. I tried to frame the sailboat between the two twigs on the shoreline and overall I think it worked. In the distance you can make out some of the fall foliage along the shoreline.