Beautiful radical variations till the clouds rolled by (roughly 6:05-6:18 AM) before I met with clients in Boston and Beverly. There were some snowflakes but when I returned to Gloucester at 1pm, the roads were dry and an even pale sky.
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NEW SHORT FILM: THE UNCOMMON COMMON TERN
What fun to encounter a small flock of terns teaching its young to fish. Nearly as large as the adults, the tubby terns cheekily squawk and demand food (shrimp I think in this case). Watch as the fledglings try to master fishing skills while the adults tirelessly guide the young on how to feed themselves.
With thanks to Paul St. Germain, president of the Thacher Island Association, for information about the ongoing restoration of shorebirds on Thacher Island.
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TWIN LIGHTS IN WINTER’S SEA SMOKE
Beautiful sea smoke along the back shore yesterday morning.
North Light
South Light
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GOOD MORNING!
Today’s Good Harbor Beach sunrise
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SURFS UP AND TODAY’S WOW SUNRISE
Love seeing the growing number of surfers along Cape Ann beaches. Perhaps Hurricane Gaston will bring the Big Swells!
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GOOD HARBOR BEACH DAZZLING DAYBREAK
Bedazzled by a single morning’s sunrise–every shade all at once–from hues of rose-violet-blue giving way to fiery bands of red-yellow-orange. I can’t decide which I like best, you choose 🙂
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SALT ISLAND SUNRISE
Today’s Good Harbor Beach sunrise
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THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM
My grandmother was fond of saying “the early bird catches the worm.” I assumed she said that because I adored getting up early to eat breakfast with my grandfather before he left for work. In a large family with siblings and cousins, I had him all to myself in those day break hours. Having developed a passion and love for wild creatures and wild places, I understand better what she meant. She and my grandfather built a summer home for their family in a beautiful, natural seashore setting and both she and my parents packed our home with books and magazines about nature. Now I see her design…
Wednesday morning at day break, beautiful scene, beautiful creatures by the sea’s edge
Song Sparrow breakfast
American Robin fledgling, note its speckled breast feathers
Mockingbird feeding its fledgling
Song Sparrow and Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) flowers and fruit
Sanderling
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TODAY’S GOOD HARBOR BEACH BREATHTAKING SUNRISE!
Good morning Gloucester, brought to you by Good Harbor Beach!
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NORTH LIGHT
North Light Thacher Island with sea smoke
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NORTH LIGHT THACHER ISLAND SUNRISE
Cape Ann has been blessed with stunning sunrises and sunsets this winter, or perhaps it’s just that the weather temperatures are warmer than usual, which makes it much more fun to be out and about photographing. Fifties today and despite the overcast skies, the day was divine!
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MORE BACK SHORE GOOD HARBOR JONAS PHOTOS
Another batch of photos from yesterday’s mesmerizing after storm wave-watching.
Good Harbor Incoming Tide
Thacher Island from the Back Shore High Tide
Eastern Point
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I would not have wanted to be a lighthouse keeper on Thacher Island yesterday
Off in the distance the waves were pounding Thacher Island in the storm’s aftermath.
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Gloucester At Dawn 4:50AM 6/26/15 Good Harbor Beach and Thacher Island
Photo Joey Ciaramitaro
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Thacher Island Close up
From Eden Rd. Rockport
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Gloucester At Dawn- Thacher Island Sunrise 4:56AM 6/12/14
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Second week Of June Mark Your Calendars- I was looking Through My Flickr Photos Of Gloucester At Dawn Photos And Wouldn’t you Know…
Look at these sunrises from the past few years on the same exact week of the year- Second Week Of June. If you’re a photographer and planning on taking a trip out here to photograph sunrises, might I suggest the second week of June? If this hack of a photographer can capture these images, you ought to be able to as well 
‘08, ‘09, ‘10, ‘12 and ‘14 represented here-
Fishermen’s Wives Statue 4:46AM 6/14/08
Gloucester At Dawn, 4:45AM Good Harbor Beach 6/09/09
Gloucester At Dawn Good Harbor Beach and Thacher Island 4:50AM 6/11/10
Gloucester At Dawn 4:50AM 6/7/12 Good Harbor Beach at Thacher Island
Gloucester At Dawn- Good Harbor Beach 4:55AM 6/9/14
Some of my other favorite Gloucester at Dawn Photos can be seen here
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VOLUNTEERS SURVEY BLIZZARD DAMAGE ON THACHER ISLAND
A delegation of Thacher Island volunteers, finally able to visit the island after the February 10 blizzard, discovered substantial damage to the boathouse at the top of the landing ramp. The damage included eastern and northern walls dislodged from their foundations, siding torn loose, the rear door torn off its track, and interior shelving knocked loose. Wind and high water also deposited boulders and debris across a broad swath of ground. Snowdrifts prevented the volunteers, Syd Wedmore, Paul St. Germain, Peter Bergholz, and Bill Lee, from inspecting other structures on the island. Oddly enough, the water that surged through the boathouse did not disturb the American flag that still lay neatly folded on a dislodged table in the middle of the jumbled debris.
(Photos supplied by Paul St Germain)
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Gloucester Ma November 8, 2012 Nor Easter
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Loblolly Cove, Rockport, circa 1920
Loblolly Cove, Rockport, circa 1920 Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
Gloucester photographer Alice Curtis shot this photograph from Eden Road, looking across Loblolly Cove. The tip of Emerson Point is on the right. Thacher Island sits in the distance, with its two 124 feet tall granite towers. Built in 1861, Thacher has the only remaining twin lights still operating in the United States. I’ve been asked several times in the gallery what loblolly means. Since 1597, loblolly was a restorative thick stew or gruel served on a ship to ailing or injured sailors, much like the way chicken soup is usde today for colds. Also an old British and American naval term, it refers to a warship surgeon’s assistant – a loblolly boy.
Printed archivally from the original 5×7 inch glass negative in my darkroom. Image #A8657-125
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