The Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Festival of Fireworks is an annual event that bills itself as “the best fireworks show in New England.” It was held on August 20th (it’s generally the third week in August) and has earned its following of fireworks aficionados owing to the dazzling display put on by Atlas Pyrotechnics. A company […]
Welcome to the September 2011 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H. The Aftermath of the Most Famous New England Murder And it continues to this very day! The premier murder case in New England — possibly […]
As a child on Cape Cod, Ethan Daniels fell in love with water and the mysteries within it. He learned to swim and sail there, and later (in order to become an intern at the New England Aquarium) he learned to dive in its murky depths. “The study of life around the planet was the […]
The Rhode Island Red breed began in Adamsville (a village of Little Compton), Rhode Island, in 1854, when William Tripp crossed his Cochin hens with a Red Malay or Chittagong rooster purchased from a sailor in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Isaac Wilbour, above, Tripp’s neighbor, bred his hens with the “Tripp fowl,” creating what he called […]
LOCATION: Bear Pond, Waterford Date: October 10 Time: 3:45 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens ” I feel as though there are two sides of autumn. There’s the active autumn, where there’s lots of energy involved: fairs, festivals, pumpkin stands, apple picking, leaf peeping. And then there’s the quiet autumn, like a lake with colors on the […]
LOCATION: Pine Point (northeast of Old Orchard Beach) Date: October 4 Time: 5:05 p.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I was driving and suddenly saw the slash of red on the grass of the marsh, and then I noticed the piece of wood.”
LOCATION: Scarborough Marsh Date: October 4 Time: 4:00 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “I love the golden yellow of marsh grasses. I switched to a longer 150mm lens to get more color. I wanted to be sure I got the bridge in the photo; it sets up the expansiveness of the marsh.”
If you picked up the July/August issue of Yankee Magazine, I hope you took time to peruse the photo essay, “Summer on the Lake,” in which Richard Schultz captured the essence of lakeside living in a stunning array of photographs. I certainly did and was intrigued not only by the images, but also the description […]
LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I’d come here the day before in the late afternoon to do some scouting and noticed that the marsh shot would be better in the morning. I came back then for sunrise on the water … Autumn is the most challenging season to […]
LOCATION: Parsonsfield Date: October 13 Time: 5 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “Reverent is how I feel in graveyards. Respectful, seeing gravestones in a row, families still held together by stone walls and wrought-iron fencing. First I framed the image with the gravestones and mountains, but the fencing seemed so important–families being protected from … what […]
LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 18 Time: 6:35 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “I was just losing the sun, and I just happened to see the yellowing leaves and rose hips on the bushes. There’s so much more to capture in autumn than colorful leaves alone.”
LOCATION: Parsonsfield Date: October 13 Time: 11:30 a.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “The leaves falling, the rocking chairs on the porch, the white New England house, the colors with the sun poking in and out, were too good to pass up.”
