The NEISA Women's Championship Reed Trophy: a regional college sailing event to find the best fleet racing women's team in the Northeast. Hosted at the Coast Guard Academy in New London this May, 17 teams competed in a two day event on the unpredictable river and I was lucky to get out on the water for some fierce female competition. Day one saw windy conditions with a rather consistent...
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...
The high school sailing season always feels short. No sooner are the boats in the water in early March then the season is drawing to a close by mid April. But before the season championship events, North Kingstown hosted a three-way regatta in Wickford Harbor, inviting the Rogers team from Newport and the Sharon team from Massachusetts. There was actually breeze and sun as racing got underway...
The hardest part of long exposure shooting is predicting the weather. I'm constantly looking at weather forecasts, watching the cloud cover on satellite maps, and hoping that when I drive half an hour south the sky will somewhat resemble what I'm seeing out my window at home. I prefer shooting sunsets compared to sunrise because you can watch the weather develop as the day progresses. Is that rain...
Late March... it's technically spring but days like these would probably fool you into thinking it was winter. High School sailing is almost a month into its short season and my alma mater and local team from North Kingstown was out making the best of a particularly chilly March afternoon. No warm sun but luckily no snow or freezing rain either. This team was already undefeated in the few events...
