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Just a quiet night in #Provincetown. My last photo before heading home for the night. I have seen this photo taken by others a ton of times, but I've never taken it myself. Sometimes, you just need to test yourself against a standard.
Once upon a time, this was a through street that drove along a row of beach bungalows and a vacation hot spot called Ball's Town. Now it fades into the dune as the land the cottages sat on was consumed by the Atlantic years before.
Corn Hill Winds Blow

Warm summer winds blow regularly across the Outer Cape, and the beauty of the landscape is enhanced by a quality of light that was shared with the world in Joel Meyerowitz’s book Cape Light. The images in that book had a great impact on how I saw the region and led me to areas of the Cape I had never visited before in my twenty-five years as a washashore. Two images from the book influenced my ability to see this photograph in my mind. The image of laundry in the... 
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wind, and the one of a side of a house on a grassy dune.

These cottages were immortalized in a painting by Edward Hopper and are partially visible in Meyerowitz’s photograph of the Roseville Cottages at the foot of Corn Hill. You can bring any number of photographers to a place, and they will all create a different picture. My mental model draws me to the cottages as I remember vacations with my mother down the shore in New Jersey. We stayed in small efficiency cottages just off the highway. It is a f
The title is how I felt about what I saw before me. The ships were pretty far away. The fishing boat was just a white light when I arrived, but slowly it emerged. The cargo ship was unexpected! It felt like a whale had suddenly breached. It was so much farther away and still more than three times the size of the fishing vessel from my perspective
Exit this way. The traffic pattern of this parking lot was much changed to reconstruct the dune that was nearly completely destroyed by a strong coastal storm.
Rock Harbor, Cape Cod, Sunset, Water, Cape Cod Bay, Clouds, Civil Twilight, snow, ice, beach, coast, coastal
Some look at damage and see only what was or could have been, the choices not made or the better path that was not taken. Maybe its the sentiment of "but for the grace of God...". It's when you see all of those as well as what in in front of you at the moment when you really feel #humanity creeping in.
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