Quidnet Across Sesachacha – Nantucket is a photograph from my Coastal New England Series – Nantucket. There is always something beautiful going on somewhere on Nantucket. I’ve seen some incredible sunrises on Nantucket. I think it is Nantucket’s low geography that makes for such beautiful sunrises and sunsets. You’re never really in the shadow of anything substantial. There are no mountains and even in town there are no tall buildings save for a church steeple or two. I remember taking this photo in particular because some friends from New Zealand had come to join us on Nantucket. Margaret (the wife) had mentioned that she may want to join me on one of my early morning forays around Sankaty. I told her what time I would be leaving and she said she would try to join me.
On that morning, I woke around 5 AM and got my gear together. I stepped outside and it was cold and misty. Not usually the greatest conditions for landscape photography, but those conditions can change quickly on Nantucket. I finished loading the van and stepped back inside to kiss my wife goodbye. I stepped in the van, and popped the lights on. I put the van in reverse looked, over my right shoulder and slowly backed up in an arc to make it out of the drive. It was quiet, “foggy-quiet”, if you know what I mean. I could hear the gravel popping under the van’s wheels as I carefully backed up, being sure not to hit the fence. I put the van into drive and began to move forward when the van’s lights illuminated a startling apparition.
There, before me, in the early morning mist stood a tall pale figure of a man. He seemed completely naked, except for a pair of very small out-of-style men’s bikini briefs. His arms were stretched high over his head and he waved them slowly over his head. He glowed eerily white in the headlights and it kind of spooked me and I thought I was looking at a ghost as he slowly walked toward the van. It was Lloyd, Margaret’s husband. He had come outside dressed in his game day uniform to ask me to please wait for his tardy wife as she was getting ready to come shooting with me. That’s a dedicated husband, (and a frightful thing to see first thing in the morning before a coffee)!
Margaret and I headed out to Sankaty across the moors and while we were thwarted by the fog in some areas, we were rewarded by it as we arrived at Sesachacha Pond. We got out of the van and shot for a little while. I remember the greens and amber colors being especially vivid that morning. I was waiting for the fog to lift to actually get a shot of Quidnet across the pond before the sun had fully risen, but that wasn’t going to happen that morning. We were still rewarded with some great photo opportunities and the shot above is one of them.
There is always something beautiful going on somewhere on Nantucket.
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I’ve spent a lot of mornings and late afternoons at Brant Point on Nantucket. I’ve seen the little lighthouse there in a lot of different lighting and atmospheric conditions. As busy as Nantucket can get, you can always find time to be alone at your favorite locations. You may have to get up a little early like I did for this shot, but you’ll usually be treated to something special. This is an HDR treatment of one of my favorite photos that I captured there. Just one early Autumn morning at sunrise. The sunlight and the clouds were amazing.
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