Photographing An Island™
A Van Lieu Photography Blog

Ocean Light

Calm Sea at Cisco Beach

Nantucket Skies

We do get some great skies here. This area is known as the Serengeti for obvious reasons.

I have edited the third image in this post after the comments below were made. I decided to go with a black and white version for the website. I apologize for any confusion.

Katia in White

I’m posting a few more photographs that I took when Hurricane Katia passed to the east of Nantucket. It did not produce particularly stormy conditions here but did provide some wonderful waves and the whitest surf I have seen here. The water was muddied from the strong roiling motion of the waves but the surf was a beautiful, brilliant white. There was a strong northerly wind and I was on the south shore so while I was protected by the dunes, the waves were hit squarely by it, creating some beautiful blow-back on the water.

This is a photograph of a young man who came bicycling down the beach. He pedaled as easily as if he were on the bike path.

Katia

Hurricane Katia passed a couple of hundred miles east of Nantucket and it brought some beautiful waves and light on Friday morning. This shot is a preview and one of the few I have processed in black and white so I thought I would post it by itself.

Signs

Irene on Nantucket

We went to Smith’s Point on Sunday. Homeowners were digging trenches to divert the ocean, people were wandering singly and in pairs down the beach and pipers were feasting on what the churning ocean was bringing to the beach. The wind was fairly high as you can see from the foamy surf.

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Here is Dirck shooting on the beach. You can see the wind parting his hair and plastering his clothes to him.

Waiting for Irene

We went by Nobadeer beach today to see if anyone was surfing. The weather here today was still and warm and very humid and the air felt so heavy. There were a few people out.

We made a slideshow of photographs of Nobadeer beach taken today. Nobadeer is a beach we haven’t featured here before.

Slideshow 1

We are supposed to get the equivalent of a strong nor’easter tomorrow. We’ll try to get out and shoot if conditions allow for us and our equipment to do so safely.

Sharon

Print Samples

We are now offering print samples to those who are interested in purchasing a print but would like to see a sample of our photography first. Visit the Print Sample page on our website to order.

Print Sample Page

These prints are 6×4 inch photographs on 5×7 inch fine art paper printed by us.

Smith’s Point

These were taken one evening last February on Smith’s Point. The light was just amazing. The first two show Esther Island which is attached to Nantucket Island by a small spit of land that is sometimes removed by a hurricane or nor’easter. The houses there generate their own electricity.