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!

Just want to wish everyone from the USA a Happy 4th of July! Enjoy the day everyone!

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?

I just want to thank everyone for the great replies and response to my last post about the People of Haiti. And I want to thank you for any donations you gave to Compassion or another charity towards Haiti. If you are still thinking about donating to help the people of Haiti please click the banner below.

Since this is my first post of 2010 I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year!  Hope its a great year for us all!

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.

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!

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

I got the inspiration for this shot from seeing the many very cool photos yz has posted of half sunk boats on his photoblog. I probably would have passed these boats by without a second thought but as soon as I saw them they reminded me of his great sinking boat photos.

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

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”.

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!

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.

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

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

Here is a photo I took of the famous Gloucester MA monument for sailors who are lost at sea.

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.

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.

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.