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When Optis Attack!

This past weekend I was out on the water to shot two regattas.  And while it took me a while to complete both these projects with all the hours of culling, editing, cataloging, posting and emailing involved with each, I finally finished!  First up, on Saturday, was the Sail Newport Youth Challenge, an annual event hosted by Sail Newport as a season opener for young sailors. Participants came from...

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Wickford Harbor

We all take things for granted, and photographically I never seem to go walking through my hometown and Wickford Village. So a couple of times this spring I got out there, just to shoot Wickford. There wasn't a big plan or much time involved, but it was a start! The first frame was on the way home from a regatta. The clouds were rolling in and as I watched it all develop I got off the highway one...

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Beavertail Sunrise

Beavertail commands attention.  Visited by locals and tourists alike, this rocky point of land provides stunning views to the east, west, and south with sprawling expanses of ocean and views of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay.  The lighthouse provides a beautiful backdrop to the rocky cliffs and it's hard to visit this spot solitarily due to it's endless popularity.I have been visiting this spot...

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New Kind of Water Panning

I wanted to try something new.  I came across work by notable photographers Morgan Maasen and Katherine Gendreau and they were doing something a little bit different with their seascapes.  They were panning horizontally across the horizon, blurring everything but maintaining a sense of color, ambience and environment.  I wanted to try it.So on one cloudy and nondescript early spring day, I found...

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Looking East

It was April Fool's Day and signs of spring were everywhere. Ice and snow were becoming a thing of the past, the temperature was getting more tolerable and rain every few days meant more clouds in the sky. This day in particular I was rushing to go shooting for dusk as clouds began to roll in late in the afternoon. The sky was going to light up to the west, I just knew it. But with summer suns...

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