St. Anthony of Padua

St. Anthony of Padua was founded in 1895 to serve the needs of French Canadian Catholics who lived in the North End of New Bedford.  The exterior is of red sandstone from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The spire is 256 feet high, the third tallest in New England. It seats 2,000 worshipers and several thousand more standing. The outline of the church can be seen for miles around and dominates the skyline of North New Bedford.

Great Windship

This Sunday I'll be boarding the Great Windship  Heritage to photograph the Maine Windjammer Fleet annual windjammer GAM. The Heritage is the newest coasting schooner carrying passengers along the Maine coast. The launching on April 16, 1983 and was designed and built by Captains Doug and Linda Lee at the historic North End Shipyard in Rockland. More schooner info: http://www.schoonerheritage.com

Village Lite Painting

Image from Saturdays Lite Painting scouting shoot @ Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock, Massachusetts.

Peace Pagoda

A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace. Located on a hill top in Leverett,  Massachusetts.

Shaker Village

This coming Saturday night I'm looking forward to scouting and Lite Painting at Shaker Village for my September Lite Painting Workshop @ the Village.

Established in 1783, Hancock Village thrived as an active Shaker community during most of the following two centuries. The largest Shaker museum in the east, Hancock opened as a living history museum in 1961. It contains 20 historic buildings, extensive gardens, and a significant collection of Shaker artifacts.

Nubble Light

Cape Neddick Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Cape Neddick, York, Maine, built in 1879. It is still in use today. The Cape Neddick Lighthouse stands on Nubble Island about 100 yards off Cape Neddick Point. It is commonly known as Nubble Light or simply The Nubble.

Love Lite Painting

One more reason to Love New England is the diverse subjects to photograph and in this case Lite Paint.

Eunice Williams Covered Bridge

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Greenfield, Massachusetts, is a rather large covered bridge with a long history to match. The Eunice Williams Covered Bridge marks the site where the life of a young mother was abruptly cut short, just hours after the Deerfield Massacre. Nowadays, legend holds that Mrs. Williams never left the place she died.

It was still dark on the morning of February 29, 1704, when 300 warriors from the French Army and their allies from the Abenaki and Mohawk tribes crept into Deerfield. The French and British were fighting Queen Anne’s War for control of the continent. The little New England town barely knew what had hit it before houses were plundered and burned, livestock were killed, 56 residents were murdered and 112 were captured. Those 112 (or those of them who would make it, that is) would spend the next few months hiking to Canada.

Among the 112 captured were the reverend John Williams, five of his seven children, and his wife, Eunice. Eunice, though, was in no shape to make the trek to Canada — she had given birth just a day before. The baby did not survive the attack.

Eunice collapsed while the group was crossing the Green River — the first obstacle on the way to Canada. The warriors were instructed to strike down anyone unable to keep up, and falling on the first leg of the trip put her in this category. She was struck down by tomahawk not far from her husband and surviving children.

Penobscot Bay Windjamming

This is Windjamming on Penobscot Bay, Maine. Against the mountainous backdrop of the Camden Hills to the west, Penobscot Bay spreads 40 miles long and 15 miles wide, graced by more than 200 islands. Between them lie great stretches of open water and small, winding thoroughfares. Along their shores are bustling fishing communities, quaint villages, isolated outports, and uninhabited beauty. This is the heart of cruising in Maine, and some of the best cruising in the world. Join me on a sailing adventure in June.
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Old Higgins Farm Windmill

Old Higgins Farm Windmill is a historic Smock windmill off of Old King's Highway at Drummer Boy Park in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.The windmill was built in 1795, it last ground grain around 1900.

Come join my 2016 Olde Cape Cod Adventure Photo Tour/Workshop Oct 14-16

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Madame Sherri's Castle Ruins

The 488 acres of the Madame Sherri Forest was generously donated for conservation to the Society for the Preservation of New Hampshire Forests by Anne Stokes. The forest is named for the eccentric Madame Antoinette Sherri. Madame Sherri, who had worked as a costume designer for the Zigfield Follies in the 1920s, had built her country "Castle" in the woods of Chesterfield. She became famous (or infamous) for the parties she threw for visitors from the city and was said to have driven about the town during the summer wearing a fur coat and nothing else. Madame Sherri died in 1965 at the age of 84 but for many years prior the castle had fallen to neglect and vandalism. On October 18, 1962 it was destroyed by fire. The foundation, chimneys and a grand stone staircase from the once magnificent house can be seen adjacent to the Madame Sherri Forest on a side trail close to the entrance off the Gulf Road.

Fishing Fleet

The Port of New Bedford is close to historic and bountiful fishing grounds; an ideal harbor supporting New England’s largest fishing fleet. Nantucket Shoals, Georges Bank and the Great South Channel—grounds blessed with abundant sea scallops and an array of fish—all lie within a day’s steam. Each year, nearly 50 million pounds of sea scallops land on New Bedford docks, making the city America’s most profitable port for the last ten years.

Portland Head Lighthouse

Portland Head Light is an historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine.

Image from my recent Adventure Photo Workshop to New Bedford, Ma. this is N Water St. a great place to shoot at night.

One of my favorite images the " Brimfield Truck " Brimfield, Massachusetts

Schooner BOWDOIN

The famed arctic exploration schooner BOWDOIN sailing Penobscot Bay , Maine.