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More from October. This is Tannery Falls in a pretty remote area of western Massachusetts. It was hard to get here because a lot of the roads were washed out by a big storm that had caused flooding in western New England.

Yesterday morning I got to do my first photography for 2012 (really), but I'm going to try and finish up stuff from 2011 first, despite the temptation to post the new stuff right away. It'll be on my website probably a lot sooner than here, though.

Here's one last shot from Marblehead. It's pretty similar to the first one I uploaded but it's actually taken from a bit further back and then up on top of a big rock outcropping. By this time the sun was just beginning to break above the cloud bank on the eastern horizon, throwing some direct light on things. This meant shorter exposure times, so I was able to catch an incoming wave (it took a few tries to get one that was uniform like this along the coast). I was particularly drawn to the way the water was taking a greenish color near the shore, which can happen when bubbly foamy water from previous waves is forced underneath an incoming wave that's still mostly free of bubbles. I've obviously enhanced the green just a tad, but it's actually not that far from the original.

After this I'll go back and finish off the waterfalls from the fall in Western MA.

Here's another from November at Castle Rock in Marblehead. This was earlier than the last shot, giving the ocean that smoothed over look from a longer exposure. Also, the colors were a bit more intense. Maybe too intense? I don't know, you decide.

Due to computer problems, it's been a long time since my last upload. I also haven't done any new photography since November, when I took this shot. This is in Marblehead at sunrise, not too far from Chandler Hovey Park. I have a couple more from here. The sun was blocked at this point by a cloud bank on the eastern horizon, allowing for longer exposures of the waves. I liked the fan shapes they made on this pebble beach.

Here's the last of my shots from the Twin Cascade area in western MA, shot way back in October. This is a view of the narrow flume below where the two waterfalls join together. The water was freezing to stand in. This is the last shot I have to upload for the foreseeable future. I have more from this day as well as some very different shots from Marblehead in November, but they are on my desktop computer which is still down.