The Farm for The Fourth
Category: 365/Journal
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Clambake on Sheffield Island with Ripka’s At the Beach in Norwalk, CT
It would seem that a little special treatment comes with the job. On our trip to Sheffield Island to document and report on a classic New England Clambake, we were invited to climb to the top of the historic Sheffield Island Light, which had been closed for renovations since the 80s. This photo was taken from the catwalk around the outside. I was eager to get out there because the glare on the inside was messing with the view. Not only that, we had already been shown around the areas of the house normally closed, I had to see if we could push one more boundary. When I jokingly asked Jim, the extremely friendly Lightkeeper if I could step through a precarious, thigh-high hatch, he replied with a daring cock of the head and a “go for it.” There’s usually two ways around getting to do something not normally allowed — either you ask permission or you ask forgiveness. When you’re 50 ft. up and 2 miles from shore and you don’t own the boat that got you there, ask permission first.
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4/365 : Katie
4/365 : Katie and red and white at Noroton Bay Beach.
3/365 : Beach Day
3/365 : Spent the day on beach and in the sound. Henry arrived to the rescue with grill utensils, and he was indiscernibly mad/glad about having to enjoy a warm end to a spectacular day.
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2/365 : Shakespeare on the Sound with The Couple, Mike and Katie
1/365 : The Start of a Year Measured by Images
1/365 : The Start of a Year Measured by Images
This inaugural post marks the beginning of my 365/Journal, photo-a-day project. For the next year (and perhaps beyond) I have set a goal to capture and post one photograph per day, here, to the blog portion of my website. So I can promise to you, reader, one post a day, everyday, with some unforeseen impositions against the goal, I'm sure, but that's not an excuse, this is a run-on, end it.
A couple of rules need to be laid out for the groundworks of such an ambitious project, and they are:
- One image everyday.
The image must be captured on the day for which it's posted.
Simple, but effective.
Well, I'm very excited to see where this open-ended project is going to take me and make me grow, and I hope you enjoy the ride. I can only anticipate the nostalgia I'll have looking back on this post and the year gone by.
Having planned this endeavor for a while now, I've been trying to think of an appropriate image to correspond with the beginning of this year. An elegant sunset maybe. No -- a sunrise! How appropriately cheesy. I decided on a self-portrait, because in the beginning there is just me and a camera, and at the end it will be just the same. But between now and then, I hope a lot will have changed.