Diving Locker Museum

If you're not one of the fruitcakes that dives in the winter, now is an excellent time to visit Paul Harling at the Diving Locker Museum. Paul is a great guy to chat with about all things diving and his little museum is jam packed with all kinds of cool diving gear. You can even try on an antique diving helmet while you are there. Diving nerds beware.. Plan to send at least an hour here, and be sure to ask Mr. Harling questions- he has a story for everything in the museum.

Random Pictures

I've been going through my photos from this past year and looking through ones that I've either initially ignored or overlooked. Most of them are more abstract or screwed up for one reason or another, but others came out unintentionally awesome. Here's a picture of diver, Chuck Marrone, at the bottom of the mooring line at Saturday Night Ledge. His flashlight, hosed my camera's exposure settings to a dramatic effect. All you can see of Chuck is his arm and his bubbles. I desaturated the image because I liked the way it looked in B&W.

Here's the silhouette of hydroids on the side of a granite boulder on the Rockport breakwater.

Ipswich River Audubon Sanctuary

The Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary is a nice spot tucked into the north shore of Massachusetts. We generally only walk here during the winter months to hand feed the birds, but it's a nice place for a short hike in any case.

We began out walk in the early afternoon with the moon poking through the trees.

Unfortunately, there were many people here on this nice winter day, and we had trouble finding spots with hungry birds. After a little while we had some chickadees start to take interest. 

Robin did most of the feeding this day as my hands were cold and full of camera. It was impossible to get any of these little guys to hold still for me. They have no interest in hanging around after they grab a seed. They also hate the sound of my camera's shutter, which they are faster than... I got a lot of images that looked like the one below.

There were also many ground squirrels running everywhere boasting plundered bird seed. We were overjoyed teasing them about their tufted ears. They didn't find it amusing...