Week 14 - Spectacular Skies

This week's first and last photos were taken in almost the same location - the Cape Poge area on Chappaquiddick.  Interestingly, 5 of this week's 7 photos were taken on Martha's Vineyard.  This may not surprise any of you readers, but did me!

Day 98/July 23 - Storm Cell Hits Cape Poge

Day 97/July 22 -  July Heatwave falls on Vineyard Haven Harbor

 

Day 96/July 21 -  Edgartown Federated Church #3

Day 95/July 20 -  Fresh Picked Raspberries

Day 94/July 19 -  The Goo Goo Dolls singing Black Balloon

Day 93/July 18 -  Vineyard Haven Tall Ships

Day 92/July 17 -  Cape Poge Sunset

Week 13 - First Raspberries of the Season

More flowers this week. And also, as the title of this post indicates, some fresh raspberries.  Some repeat photos this week (over and above the flower photos, of course).  I hope to look back at the end of this project see improvement over repeat subject matter.  I hope.

Day 91/July 16 -  Edgartown Federated Church #2

Day 90/July 15 - Woods Hole Sunset

Day 89/July 14 - Daylily #4

Day 88/July 13 - Cloud Break

Day 87/July 12 - First Raspberries of 2011

Day 86/July 11 - Daylily #3

Day 85/July 10 - Turn To Clear Vision #3

Week 12 - Summer Vacation

This week was my July 4th Summer Vacation week on Martha's Vineyard.  I spent most days on the beach and found that I was not taking as many photos due to the strong daytime sun, distractions, and lots of water and sand.  Fishing was slow, but relaxing.  I caught the random big bluefish here and there, but did not have my camera with me, unfortunately, as I was waist deep in the surf.  Here's this week's photos:

Day 84/July 9 - The On Time II

Day 83/July 8 - Breakfast Served from 8 AM

Day 82/July 7 - First Order Fresnel Lens

Day 81/July 6 - Foggy Ferry Ride

Day 80/July 5 - Edgartown Federated Church

Day 79/July 4 - Edgartown 4th of July Fireworks

Day 78/July 3 - Lobster Bisque

Week 11 - Summer Begins

The last week of June is one of my favorite weeks - Summer is just starting and I'm about to spend a week's vacation on Martha's Vineyard.  This week of photos ended while I was on vacation, thus the late posting. I've got a new week, the vacation week, coming in the next day or two.  Here's this week's photos:

Day 77/July 2 - Gazebo at Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs

Day 76/July 1 - Yellow Daylilies

Day 75/June 30 - Lone Lychnis

Day 74/June 29 - Today's Mail

Day 73/June 28 - Daylily

Day 72/June 27 - Main Street Cupcakes

Day 71/June 26 - Future Corporate Executive

Week 10 - Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

This week I had the opportunity to spend 3 days on Nantucket, fishing in the Martha's Vineyard Surfcasters vs. Nantucket Anglers Club.  The tournament pairs a MV fisherman with a Nantucket fisherman and you stay at that person's house and fish with that person. Each year the location switches.  This year it was Nantucket. It is the second year I've participated and I've had a great time and made a bunch of new friends.  We lost the cup this year but it didn't matter - it was great fishing, great food, and great fun.

Day 70/June 25 - Miacomet Surfcasters

Just after arriving on Friday, prior to the start of the weekend-long 2011 Nantucket Anglers Club vs. Martha's Vineyard Surfcasters tournament, Peter Sliwkowski, mimicing Nathan Horton of the Bruins, poured "Martha's Vineyard water" into Nantucket Harbor.  Unlike the Bruins, however, we did not win the cup!  Nantucket beat us this year, catching over 30lbs more fish than the Vineyarders.

Day 69/June 24 - Boston Bruins "Good Luck Charm" Fails Vineyard Anglers

Day 68/June 23 - Steamship Mooring Rope

It rained hard all day on June 22nd. While not one of my better photos, I liked how you can see the rain streaks above the  flowers, almost matching the lines of the thin flower stalks.  After seeing these rain streaks when looking at the photo on the computer, I wish I had taken many more shots at varying slow shutter speeds.

Day 67/June 22 - Rain Falls on Lychnis Flowers

Day 66/June 21 - Looking Up

While leaving Martha's Vineyard on the Ferry, I spotted this huge yacht docked near just past The Black Dog restaurant.  There was something about being in the bowels of a big ship peaking out at a luxury yacht that made me choose this shot as my photo of the day.  Incidently, this yacht, a 170+ foot super yacht called "Quantum of Solace", is for sale for $24.5 million.

Day 65/June 20 - Leaving Paradise

While waiting for the Chappaquiddick "On Time" Ferry to return me to Edgartown, I pulled out my wide-angle lens and took this photo.  I'm still learning this lens, and can't wait to try it out on the Gay Head Cliffs later this summer.

Day 64/June 19 - Chappy Point

Week 9 - Nikon D7000

I got a new camera!  A Nikon D7000 as an anniversary gift from my (great) wife!  This week was my transition from the Nikon D80 to the D7000.  The D7000 has a lot of new features to learn (focus area settings in particular) and supposedly much better pictures in low light (better high ISO noise reduction).   So I'm going through a mini-re-learning process with the camera.

Here's this week's photos:

I never realized, until June 18th 2011, that Chappy  apparently has a UPS office.  Here it is, along with a customer picking up a package inside.  There are even "office hours" posted on the door.  The UPS office is conveniently located next to a porta-potty and a few abandon cars (not seen in this photo, thankfully). While not one of my best photos of this day, I couldn't resist making it my Day 63 photo.

Day 63/June 18 - The Chappaquiddick UPS Office

Day 62/June 17 - Fresh Picked Morning Glory Farm Strawberries

Day 61/June 16 - Turn To Clear Vision #2

Day 60/June 15 - Clematis Flowering Vine

Day 59/June 14 - Hydrangea Buds

Day 58/June 13 - Bob's Pizza, Vineyard Haven

Day 57/June 12 - "In The Woods" Shop, Edgartown

Week 8 - Flowers and Fish

Taking pictures of flowers isn't my passion.  The thing is, I like to take outdoor photos, and I like pictures with different color.  All green tree/grass photos are boring.  And I haven't gotten into portraits (yet).  Sometimes I wish I lived in a city so that I could take city pictures, but then that feeling quickly passes a nano-second later.  I'd love to take all photos of fish - but that would probably get tiresome (no, not really).  Anyway, here's this week's 7 photos.  Thanks for viewing.

Day 56/June 11 - Striped Bass

Day 55/June 10 - Beach Plum Blossom

Day 54/June 9 - Peace Lily

Day 53/June 8 - Flint Hill Furniture Workshop

Day 52/June 7 - Kettlebells

Day 51/June 6 - White Clematis

Day 50/June 5 - Rickard's Bakery