The first weekend of August the Wickford Yacht Club takes a cruise. All the club members get together with their boats, sail or power, and visit various ports of call along the southern New England Coast. Typically, the first stop is Cuttyhunk Island just east of Narragansett Bay. It's the first island you reach as you hang a left past Newport, and a tiny one in the Elizabeth Island chain which...
April Showers bring May Flowers never held so true! Well, some of these flowers arrived in April, but there were certainly plenty of rains and plenty of flowers. Light rains, heavy rains, misting rains... and blooms to follow.I have visited the gorgeous old magnolia tree on West Main Street in Wickford every spring the past few years. This time around, it was after a morning rain and there were...
Day 8 - Day trip to SantiagoWe woke up with the sun, which we were finding usual and refreshing in this region of the world. Everyone got up early and everyone felt good about it. We left San Pedrito by 8am facing a 2 hour drive across the cape. We were finally able to put Todos Santos behind us and get to the beauty and seclusion of the East Cape!After driving about an hour towards La Paz, we...
Our last morning on Block Island was spent at Cormorant Cove for a sunrise shoot where there were ample shooting opportunities for views towards and away from the rising sun. I chose a location along a dock to capture the morning light, and setting my camera to Daylight White Balance, everything was warmed up rather nicely! We walked the mile or so stretch of dirt road up the hill to a nearby...
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,...
