Panoramic shot of the harbor, Rockport, MA.
Here’s a full 360° panoramic shot of the Rockport harbour around which we just spent a delicious week. More photos and a short story to come soon. For now, as always with these new panoramic shots, please click on the « full screen » icon at the bottom right of the viewer's Menu and then click and drag the mouse to pan and explore the image.
This was shot in HDR to compensate for strong shadows and highlights in the middle of the day. The stitch isn't perfect, I'll have to work on it further - and the shoot was expedited because of too many tourists walking in and out of the scene. 48 shots were involved in total. Rockport surely is a beautiful little town. Some of its peace and ocean rhythms still flow in my blood. For a while.
Update: Oh, I forgot the most important part! Let's play "find Marie." The winner wins a... mention on Coriolistic Anachronisms, the coolest, photographiest, laziest, bizarrest, most irregular and yet hopefully most randomly and occasionally entertaining blog around... ;-)
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Once Upon a Time, Rockport
In October of 1991, the quaint little town of Gloucester, MA, was put on the map at the epicenter of a highly mediatized maritime drama when one of the strongest extratropical cyclones in Eastern Seaboard history, fed by the remnants of hurricane Grace, unleashed its fury at coastlines and scrambled open seas, engulfing boats and randomly taking lives. It was a "Perfect Storm" that sunk the Andrea Gail and lifted Sebastian Junger to the top of charts.
Yet all things weather-wise are rarely that intense around Gloucester and casual summertime visitors would never know the region hides such a terrible temper under its clever cover as a touristic but pleasantly quiet coast. There are many gems to be discovered, neat little places that seem to have avoided the pitfalls of over-development and remain as they were five decades ago, tranquil, well-behaved and picturesque.
One such rarity is Rockport. Located 15 minutes north of her big sister Gloucester at the northeastern tip of Cape Ann, Rockport could easily be missed as one takes a sharp left towards Essex Bay and pushes on to New Hampshire. The town bears its name well, consisting of little more than a small harbor nestled within
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These were wonderful birds. Beautiful pictures.
Sigh… these photographers… won’t show nothing but the best edited pictures… I want access to all the crappy ones too. Please?
You mean the other 95%? No way, I buried them in a cave and sealed the entrance…
I wish I had your luck photographing tree swallows when I spent the week at Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Huge masses of them were migrating south when I was there last October. All I could get were images of black dots.
So, I’ll pretend these were the photos I could have taken if I had a better camera (maybe with the new Panasonic?). . .Or maybe I’ll pretend that I’m a better photographer than I really am. . . Or maybe I’ll just keep coming to your blog and admire your handiwork.
Yep, that’s the ticket.
Yeah, I pretend that myself all the time, it really helps. But you’re always welcome in here, of course! And thank you for your kind words!
Obviously I’m a fan of your color pictures, but I think I will be even bigger fan of the black and white :)
Thanks Kat. I don’t do that very often but once in a while, it’s a lot of fun and it forces me to change my perspective…