“The Cape”

Photographing on Cape Cod is always a different experience. The light is softer not as harsh, you can see into the shadows. Full sun, cloudy day, or somewhere in-between the light is more diffused. My guess is there is more moisture in the air and the light scatters.

The light was the same when my wife Natasha and I visited her aunt and uncle in West Dennis on Cape Cod a week ago. Friday Aunt Martha drove us to the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuse on Morris Island in Chatham. We walked on a trail that took us first through the woods that then opened up to a salt marsh. The trail went passed small ponds and grasses and we end at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

Monomoy Iland Chatham MA.

Atlantic Ocean, Monomoy Island,Chatham MA

I captured many images in the salt mash area watching the sun light come and go on the landscape before me on this partly cloudy day.

Later Natasha and I walked, and I took more photos, at the beach at Chatham light. The water was calm here, protected from the full force of the ocean by barrier islands, which made for some nice calming pictures.

Beach at Chatham Light

The last photos I took were at the Chatham Pier. Everyone comes to the pier looking for seals, but the were no fishing boats unloading there catch for the day so the seals were absent. No seal photos that day but I did take a few photos of Turn Island Sanctuary just off shore.

Tern Island Sanctuary, Chatham MA

Even though it was close to noon the light was still favorable capturing a few more images before lunch.

Beginning

I begin my first blog post on my adventures with my camera on the first day of spring 2024. Rising early to capture the sunrise at Sohiel Park in Cape Neddick home to the Nubble Lighthouse.

Arriving before the sun peaked above the horizon the first thing that caught my eye was a cloud already lit by the morning sun. After taking photos of the cloud I Moved to the other side of the park, where I waited with cold hands,(my gloves were back in the car),for the sun to rise in the East. I took many photos of the colorful sky before the sun rose above the rocks to light the day.

After many more sunrise photos and some of Nubble Lighthouse I then headed to Long Sands Beach in York for more photos of the sunshine lighting up another day.

I spotted and photographed a piece of driftwood on the beach lit up by the spring sun then headed home with new photos and new memories on a new day just beginning.

Before sunrise

Sunrise Cape Neddick Maine

Morning on Long Sands Beach, York Maine