Mar 5th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Here’s a collection of images past and present.Yes we had snow!It was coming down fast and furious but was gone in less than 24 hours!Nothing to look at beyond the rails!An explosion of natures fury at Brace Cove!Look close,there’s someone on the rock!…
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Feb 27th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
On my last post I highlighted a very unique neighborhood in Gloucester made up of homes and businesses. Times change like the weather, what worked yesteryear may not work today.The entire harbor’s potential is vastly under utilized, mired in zoning reg…
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Feb 20th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
The Fort is a small peninsula marking the entrance of Gloucester’s inner harbor. It got it’s name from a fort built to protect the harbor during the revolutionary War. The fort itself is long gone replaced with a mixture of residential and commercial p…
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Feb 15th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
The sight of the schooner Adventure sailing again is finally getting close to reality. On Tuesday she made her way up the railways for installation of a motor,new spars and sail rig. 122′ length she was built in nearby Essex and launched in 1926.She wa…
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Feb 13th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Friday was in the 50′s while Saturday it snow all day. But the snow never stuck, the good kind of snow unless you’re a snow plow driver. Friday afternoon I took Molly again to Good Harbor Beach and it was sweat shirt weather. All the while I see trucks…
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Feb 9th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
The whole trick is to deliver fresh fish to the market. With many different types of boats there is basically one way to assure the catch is fresh and that’s ice. The smaller “Day Boats” simply gut and pack the fish in ice, a tried and true method to p…
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Feb 8th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Here’s a collection of past and present. A few recent shots with photos from 2009 to the present.Moon over Good Harbor Beach this week. Reflective creek.Helo over Eastern Point Light 5/18/09.”Spirit of Massachusetts” 7/25/09. City Hall 2/17/10Gull chec…
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Feb 6th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
On Saturday I went around the waterfront from the Cape Ann Marina to Niles Beach. “Nha Trang” has been a fixture for the past two years at the Jodrey Fish Pier.Not much going on.Novi hull.Boston Whaler commercial design.Birdseye plant door.ChairUSCG cu…
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Feb 2nd, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
February 1st and it was almost 60 degrees so I headed with my dog Molly over to Wingaersheek Beach. Walking along the sparse white sands I wondered what it was like a year ago this day. Back at my computer I discovered we were going through a sizable s…
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Jan 30th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
I went out the other day for the sole purpose of looking for subjects to shoot. The sky conditions were good but I just couldn’t find anything that interested me. I suppose it was a photographers version of “writers block”. I’m the type who sees someth…
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Jan 25th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
You can give a dog a bone and it will be happy. Give a dog a beach it will be ecstatic! My beagle Molly is 13 years old and when she hits the beach she’s a born again puppy! The wide open spaces with happy dogs romping all around it’s their time to shi…
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Jan 23rd, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Recently I received an email from Michael Centrella an artist from Connecticut. He has used some of my images to paint from. Sometimes when I look at a subject to shoot I think of it as a painting, perhaps as an artist would trying to match the actual …
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Jan 21st, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
A snow less Winter no more! Though it was only an inch or so here the cold temperatures assured it would last at least 24 hours. The previous snow fall this winter stuck around for only a few hours. More snow is forecast this weekend but only a few inc…
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Jan 19th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
That Italian cruise ship disaster had me thinking of the sight of these massive ships here in Gloucester. It’s got me wondering why a local pilot wasn’t aboard being so close to the shore. The “Costa Concordia” is a similar ship in size as the “MS Euro…
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Jan 16th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Back in March, Susanne Altenburger the wife of the late prolific boat designer Phil Bolger started construction of a prototype patrol/landing craft for the US Navy. Unique in it’s design and construction this “green” vessel is modular built out of wood…
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