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 cramp”. 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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Jan 13th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
I didn’t plan on taking any photos this day but after running for an errand I made a swing along the shore line to see what the nasty windy rainy weather had in store. Always with my camera I couldn’t resist once I saw the waves. One of these days I’ll…
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Jan 12th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Anytime I’ve got time to go on a photo hunt I take on the average 50 pictures. Last September I had the privilege of being invited aboard the schooner “Ardelle” for a cruise in the harbor. During the cruise the topsail schooner “Lynx” arrived in Glouce…
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Jan 9th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Over the weekend I was going through my photo files and found images that at one time or another I asked my wife about. She hates when I stop her as she walks by the office and I say “check this out”. Sometimes she couldn’t care less but other times sh…
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Jan 5th, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
Known locally as “Twin Lights” the 124′ towers built in 1771 are the last British built lighthouses. They are also the only operating twin lighthouses in America.No captions are included,I’ll let the images tell the story.
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Jan 3rd, 2012 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images
I admit it….. I’m a sucker for sunsets! I headed over to Pirates Lane and decided to photograph indirect shots onto sunset lit objects. Then it was over to Eastern Point Breakwater with a stop at Niles Beach.Smith Cove”Traveler” at her berth.City Hal…
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