Happy New Year everyone! 2012 is in the books and today we greet 2013! After a year of triumphs, heartache, achievement, and tragedy, we're all looking ahead at the year to come. But first, I wanted to take a look back. Just before we turned towards the new year, I took a look back at my images from 2011 to see how much I had grown as a photographer. I looked at new photos from Wednesday Racing...
I've been thinking about producing a new photobook for a few months now. I've been very happy with some of the work produced this summer and my new seascapes, and I really wanted to incorporate them into an approachable medium before the year was out. The answer: a softcover photobook offering over 20 pages of wonderful photography in an non-intimidating and nicely portable 7x7" medium. I put...
Day 2 of Race Week witnessed more wind troubles again as NBYA sailed out of Colt State Park in Bristol. A westerly/north westerly breeze spoiled any chance the sea breeze had of filling. And although our beloved southerly made a valiant effort to fill around noon time, it was quickly thwarted by that NW breeze. I joined the Opti Red White and Blue fleets for day 2, and again only one race was...
The event to signal summer's over and the school year is about to start: Junior Race Week. Every year, the junior sailing division of the Narragansett Bay Yachting Assoc. holds it's "junior olympic" event, welcoming all junior sailors from across the entire bay to compete in a (almost) week long event. This event culminates an entire summer's worth of regattas and competition. In the end, a winner...
One of the things a lot of younger kids in town look forward to when the last school bell rings for the year, is not just warmer weather and vacation time, but also sailing. Yacht clubs and groups throughout the bay feature programs designed just for junior sailors. Ranging from 8 to 18 years old, these kids come to sail, (sometimes swim,) compete, and just have a blast out on the water every...
