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Dickens Preserve & New Harbor

Continuing with my recent photography workshop on Block Island as part of Profundo Journeys, after our first sunrise shoot at North Light, we had a few hours of down time and then it was back to business! Shortly after lunch we took a field trip to the Dickens Preserve on the western side of the island. This sprawling landscape provides hiking trails throughout a large portion of preserved land,...

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Block's North Light

As part of my recent trip to Block Island with Profundo Journeys, we had several early morning shoots to make the most of our short four day workshop. First up was a sunrise shoot at North Light out on a spit of beach that protrudes northward towards the mainland. Between Southeast Light, tall and covered in red brick, and solitary North Light tucked out of sight with it's smaller building and...

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Cruise to Cuttyhunk

Every year the Wickford Yacht Club takes their annual cruise.  All the members get together and travel as a group by boat to various locations around Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts.  Last year we went along Block Island Sound towards Connecticut but this year it was east through the Elizabeth Island and New Bedford.First stop was Cuttyhunk! I hadn't been there in quite some time but...

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Beavertail Seascape

With all this talk about the Supermoon in late June, I thought I would take the opportunity to break from the sailing photography and shoot a seascape.  I hadn't been out to shoot a seascape in over a month and it was time to go somewhere quiet and soak in the scene!  I decided to head over to Beavertail which I had been sorely neglecting, and catch the rising moon as the sun set behind me. I did...

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Fireworks for the Fourth

We have been beyond lucky with gorgeous Fourth of July's for as long as I can remember.  Clear skies, warm weather, cool breeze... there's nothing else quite like it!  And this year was no exception.  For North Kingstown, fireworks just about always happen on the evening of the 4th.  None of this day before or weekend after, we celebrate day of!  Wickford Harbor empties of boats and everyone...

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