Scenes from four photography workshops that I hosted in October of 2019 out of Hoopers Island, Maryland. Three of the workshops were centered around photography while the fourth workshop with high school students from The Gunston School were focused on exploring the islands of the Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester and Somerset counties.
I am offering only one photography workshop in 2020 out of Hoopers Island due to a heavy workload with the completion of my forthcoming book, Island Life. Click on the link below for more information on the workshop or to reserve a space on the trip.
Photographing Crab Potters at dawn working in the Chesapeake Bay near Bloodsworth Island.
Photographing sunset on Farm Creek near Toddville, Maryland.
Dipping Striped Bass out of a pound net in the mainstem of the Chesapeake Bay.
Hoopers Island pound netter, Damien Forkum.
Sarah Lewis, a senior at Cambridge South Dorchester High School helps her father, Burl Lewis, fish his nets before her classes.
Sarah is of the sixth generation from the Lewis family to work the water in Dorchester County, Maryland.
Black Drum fin detail.
Maybe-Baybe trot lining for Blue Crabs at sunrise near the mouth of the Honga River.
Jeremy Shockley working his boat Lady Ka-Kee in the Chesapeake Bay near Bloodsworth Island.
Endless Summer
Steaming crabs at W.T. Ruark in Fishing Creek.
Crabs cooling at W.T. Ruark in Fishing Creek.
Steamed crab claws at J.M. Clayton Seafood Company in Cambridge, Maryland.
Jumbo Lump crab meat awaiting pasteurization at J.M. Clayton Seafood Company in Cambridge, Maryland.
Derelict workboat in Farm Creek.
Striped Bass scale detail.
Red Fox living on an isolated island.
An excavator on Holland Island, once used to stabilize the shoreline in attempts to preserve the island, in shallow waters that were once land.
One of two 19th century cemeteries on Holland Island.
Wave action in the Honga River driven by a Northeast wind washing over the causeway that leads to middle Hooper Island.
Hoopers Island Light reflected in calm water.
Phragmities illuminated by vehicle headlights at dusk near Wingate, Maryland.
Sunset on Farm Creek near Toddville, Maryland.
Sunset light illuminates low clouds at Lower Hooper Island.