Skipjack, Wilma Lee
Photographing the Wilma Lee for the Annapolis Maritime Museum’s 2019 Annual report
Hoopers Island, Maryland
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.
Maybe-Baybe trot lining for Blue Crabs at sunrise near the mouth of the Honga River.
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.
Jeremy Shockley working his boat Lady Ka-Kee in the Chesapeake Bay near Bloodsworth Island.
Janet Rippons Ruark weighing crab meat at Rippons Seafood, a crab picking house that her family has owner for three generations.
Derelict workboat in Farm Creek.
Phragmities illuminated by vehicle headlights at dusk near Wingate, Maryland.
A Red Fox and Striped Bass on a remote Chesapeake Bay Island.
Holland Island, Maryland
Photographs of the last house on Holland Island prior to falling in in October of 2010. Courtesy of Steven White.
Steven White, of neighboring Deal Island, started the Holland Island Preservation Foundation and spent his life savings in an effort to suppress the erosion on the island. Steven White’s uncle was the caretaker of the last house on the island which was used as a hunting and fishing lodge. Steven acquired the island and the house in the 1990’s and purchased excavation and equipment along with shoreline stabilization material to try to preserve the little land that was left. Steven spend over nearly 20 years installing jetties and breakwaters, moving dirt and creating barriers that were designed to prevent erosion. After the last house fell into the bay in 2010, Steven realized that the Chesapeake had gotten the “best of the island” and abandoned his efforts to preserve the diminishing landmass.
An excavator on Holland Island, once used to stabilize the shoreline by Steven White in attempts to preserve the island, in shallow waters that were once land.
One of two 19th century cemeteries on Holland Island.
Chesapeake Bay Oystering
Photographing Maryland’s wild oyster fishery in November on the Choptank River and its tributaries.
Early morning at the Neavitt, Maryland wharf.
Deal Island waterman, Andrew Benton, power dredging in the Choptank River. Neavitt, Maryland.
Jeff Harrison of Tilghman, Maryland power dredging at Bar Neck near the mouth of Harris Creek in the Choptank River. Tilghman, Maryland
Culling power dredge caught oysters at Bar Neck near the mouth of Harris Creek in the Choptank River. Tilghman, Maryland
Tilghman Island waterman Bobby Gowe power dredging at Bar Neck next to the mouth of the Harris Creek in the Choptank River. Tilghman, Maryland
Hand Tonging at first light in Broad Creek. Neavitt, Maryland
Waterwoman, Crystal Jordan
Photographing Maryland waterwoman, Crystal Jordan, crabbing and oystering out of Solomons for National Fisherman Magazine.
Crystal’s seven year-old son, Kevin ‘KJ’ Jordan, helps his mother on the family’s workboat when not in school.
Taxidermist, Charlie fegan
Photographing Anne Arundel County taxidermist, Charlie Fegan for Chesapeake Bay Magazine.
Chesapeake Bay Scenic
Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Annapolis, Maryland
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center. Grasonville, Maryland
Annapolis Boat Show. October 2019
Moonset behind Hoopers Strait Light at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. St. Michaels, Maryland
Construction of the Dove at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. St. Michaels, Maryland
WILD COUNTRY SEAFOOD
Photographs of Anne Arundel County, Maryland waterman Patrick Mahoney for a Chesapeake Bay Magazine assignment. Patrick and his father work on the water and own a seafood retailer in Annapolis, Maryland.
Chesapeake Tools and Traditions
Gigs used for harvesting American Eels from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.
Shucking knife from Smith Island Seafood Co., a seafood packing house once in business in Rhodes Point, Maryland.
Box used to pack Northern Puffer tails by a Crisfield, Maryland seafood packing company in the 1970’s.
Crab meat cans from Maryland and Virginia picking houses. Part of the Steve Dorrell collection.
Oyster cans from shucking houses in Grasonville and Chester, Maryland. Part of the Steve Dorrell and Art Ortel collection.
Oyster Plates, part of the Fisherman’s Inn collection.
Sequoia
Photographing the former Presidential Yacht, Sequoia, in transit from Cambridge, Maryland to Belfast, Maine, where it will undergo a complete restoration.
Jeanneau Sunfast 3300
On assignment for Jeanneau America out of Annapolis, Maryland at the mouth of the Severn River in the Chesapeake Bay.
Gargatha, Virginia
Cotton Harvest
Documenting the harvest of cotton near the town of Bayford, Virginia in Northampton County with farmer Robert Snyder.
