Martha's Vineyard

2008

I take many photographs for the local newspaper of record - the Vineyard Gazette.

Here are a few recent ones

 

TISBURY GREAT POND

AND THE GREAT SOUTH BEACH

 

A hunting camp on Tisbury Great Pond contains memories of the people who live here in the summer.

The camp by the pond
uprooted
by a hurricane
and reset
on its foundation

Hunters
and their dogs
lovers
and their dreams
walkers
of the long beach

It is fall and chill
and soon
the window will be
shuttered

Not yet though

 

 

Clouds shimmer on the surface of the pond

Late Fall - from a Kayak

 

Scrub Oak

Tisbury Great Pond - night

 

Sailboat

Tisbury Great Pond shack

 

Evening light

Tisbury Great Pond

with a nod to Alison Shaw

 

Sun Set

 

Crab shell

The Great South Beach

West Tisbury

 

Feathers

The Great South Beach

 

 

MENEMSHA

 

Bosun's Knot

Menemsha

 

Menemsha is the last bastion of the Island's fishing fleet

 

Many of the boats in Menemsha show signs of hard use

and hard times

 

Rope - Menemsha

 

Fishing shacks

Menemsha

 

Blocks

Menemsha

 

THE CAMPGROUNDS

 

 

 

 

Oak Bluffs Campground

Showing the flag

 

Oak Bluffs Campground

The secret garden

 

Oak Bluffs Campground

The Tabernacle

 

 

 

 

CAPE POGUE

CHAPPAQUIDDICK

Stairway

Cape Pogue Lighthouse

 

Window on the world

Cape Pogue Lighthouse

 

Fresnel

Cape Pogue Lighthouse

 

 

EDGARTOWN

 

The whaling church pins Edgartown to its history. it's architecture, gaunt and stark, is dramatic in slanting afternoon Fall light.

 

Columns

The Whaling Church

Whaling Church

 

Whaling Church

 

Whaling Church Steeple

 

Column - Whailng Church

 

Column

 

Railings - Dr. Fisher House

 

The sun paints branches on a tent - next to Dr. Fisher House

 

then

and now

a few years ago I began a series of images -

the Vineyard as seen then by a painter

and now by me

to evoke both the change

and continuity

of island life