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Nantucket // Day 1

Nantucket. It's not a terribly small island, but it's not terribly big either. Sitting 30 miles offshore of Massachusetts, it faces due south to the open sea. The eastern most point of Massachusetts is on Nantucket, and if you sailed south into the Atlantic, the next point of land you'd cross is in the Caribbean. The island is steeped in history, from the native americans to the whaling industry...

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Abstracts // Narragansett & Narrow River

Early this summer, when the weather and water were starting to warm, I went to explore abstract photography once again.  Although I returned to perhaps my most photographed beach – Narragansett – I challenged myself to find something different.  I watched the waves roll in, and water line washing back and forth... and then I thought about finding some greenery. I walked all the way to the end of...

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Abstracts // Green Hill and Little Compton

Abstract photography can be an escape.  It forces me to let go, allow the creativity to take over, and look for the subtleties in the landscape.  Intuition and expression take the place of contrived composition, and Mother Nature comes through. I don't need much to photograph abstracts, just an hour or so of free time, my standard camera kit (always packed and ready to go), and my tripod. Just...

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Thistles at Dusk

This summer I made time to just go for a walk.  I went down Rome Point, nice and close to home, and brought my DSLR with me.  I didn't know what I would find, what I would shoot, only that it was a beautiful day and golden hour was approaching. I came to the beach and walked south, then further south, and soon I was almost at Plum Beach. The rocky shore of Rome Point became slightly sandier, and I...

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Onward to Nantucket

I have only ever visited Nantucket once before. There was a women's regatta hosted on the island back in high school, so of few of us girls took the ferry over to Nantucket for a weekend. It was rainy, cloudy, stormy, and the event was washed out. I don't remember much else besides spending the weekend playing Red Rover in a rainy field, so this trip was like rediscovering Nantucket all over...

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