Photographing An Island™
A Van Lieu Photography Blog

New Architectural Work

Our architectural photography business recently completed a shoot- www.nantucketarchitecturalphotography.com .

Battles Fought and Lost – A Look Back

A look back over the past few years on Sconset Bluff as homes were moved or destroyed due to the extensive erosion. A great deal of effort has gone into battling the erosion.

Click to View Slideshow of Battles Fought and Lost

Baxter Road Update

Bluff House is nearly gone. Only one small wing and the foundation remain to be pulled out tomorrow, with the resulting hole to be backfilled to minimize erosion from the runoff of rainwater. While the demolition is a blink of an eye compared to the construction, it is clearly exhausting, intensive work. Soon it will appear as if there was never a house there.

Bluff House Demolition Begins

Demolition began on Bluff House. The left side of the house was demo’ed today. The main section of the house will be gone tomorrow.

We’ve included a shot of Jason Graziadei and Nicole Harnishfeger, the reporter and photographer for the Inquirer and Mirror. We think they do a great job covering the whole island.

Click to View Slideshow of the Demolition of Bluff House

Summers Past

We made a trip to the bluff tonight and were rewarded with spectacular beauty as the fog covered the distance and the evening light shown on high clouds.

We revisited a composition we had taken of Swept Away before it was moved and also visited the Davis House which is the true architectural gem of the bluff that could use some attention.

Demolition Scheduled

Bluff House is scheduled to be demolished this week.  I made a trip to a foggy Sconset beach to get one last shot. Swept Away and one of the homes close to Sankaty are not far behind – they will need to be moved or demo’ed also.

Miacomet

We are predicting a beautiful summer here. It has been a delightful prelude the past couple of weeks.

Baxter Road Update – from Sconset Beach

We had more rain, rough seas and wind this week. A trip to Sconset Beach tells the story with tons of clay coming off the bluff and mixing with the sand to produce a slick mixture on the beach.

I’ll have an updated erosion slideshow early next week.

Wave and Cloud

Twin Chimney – Closer to the Edge

Three years ago Brook Hedge wrote a guest post here about life at Twin Chimney in the 60′s and 70′s. She included photographs that you can see here – A Look Back at Sconset Bluff and Twin Chimney.

This photograph shows the rapidly eroding bluff just above Twin Chimney- a new large chunk is shown breaking away in the center of this shot.

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