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‘Sconset Bluff Loses Another Home

Eastmost, the century-old home at 85 Baxter Rd. is being moved to a safer place in Monomoy. This beautiful home has overlooked the Atlantic ocean with it’s place on the bluff since 1908.

Low Beach in Spring

This is another photograph that I will make a large print of. The detail in the village of ‘Sconscet is quite lovely when seen large. Sharon

Ocean Rain

This one will be offered as a large print. Sharon

Cloudland

Published in N Magazine

N Magazine has a nice feature using our Sconset Bluff erosion photographs. We’re on pages 10, 11, and 12 and our photograph is used on the index page. Thanks to the N Magazine staff for doing such a great job!

Ducks in a Row

The Atlantic

Phenomenon Called a Fog Bow

Read about Fog Bows Here We witnessed this on Saturday evening. Instead of a pot of gold, we found this large metal box that had washed ashore. This is what I misidentified as a chest of drawers in a previous post.

Update on Swept Away

The bluff house, Swept Away, is being moved now. Last week we had noticed more undercutting close to the house and tonight, we found the patio had finally fallen. It is being moved back 20 feet to allow for a little more time at this location.A house was lost on Smith’s Point due to the [...]

Special Offer – Folio of our Latest Project

We have a new fine art folio of our project, Questions of Privilege, about Nantucket’s ‘Sconset Bluff. The folio includes photographs of the southern end of the bluff which retains its gentle slopes and the northern end which has been ravaged by erosion this year. This project was photographed from October 18, 2009 to March [...]