The Nauset Light is located near Eastham, Massachusetts. The original lights at this location were three fifteen-foot high masonry towers built 150 feet apart from each other. There were three lights at this location to differentiate it from Truro and Chatham which had one and two lights respectively. These towers were white with black lanterns, and were known as “The Three Sisters of Nauset”. These are the towers that Thoreau would have seen and described in his book, Cape Cod. Weather and beach erosion caused these towers to be abandoned and destroyed in 1890. They were replaced with...

Staying with the mountain theme for today. Today’s “Photograph of the Day” is an ice cold creek in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Check my website for prices and...

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Time to leave the shore and get back to mountains for a bit. This was an early October morning along Skyline Drive. The clouds were perfect on this day. Take a look B3695 on my website to see how the day started (the top left image). This photograph (B3755) is available on archival canvas printed with archival inks, gallery wrapped and ready to hang. Check my website for today’s extraordinary pricing and available...

Nauset Beach is one of the most popular beaches on Cape Cod. It is located in Orleans, and like most New England Beaches, the water is generally cold. Nauset beach faces the open ocean which make this one of the most popular surfing areas on the cape. I photographed this on a day when a winter storm was approaching. The clouds were constantly increasing as the front moved in, creating some really impressive skies. Henry David Thoreau writes about Nauset Beach in his book Cape Cod. In the following two passages, he describes the seas during a storm. “The breakers looked like droves of a thousand...