2019 Holiday Party

On Friday, December 6th 2019, my 2019 Holiday Party will be held at the Annapolis Maritime Museum in historic Eastport. Oysters on the half shell, smoked seafood hors d’oeurves, beer and wines will be available complimentary to all guests. Admission is free and all are welcome.

The walls of the Bay Room at the museum feature photographs from Working the Water and my forthcoming book Island Life. Signed copies of Working the Water, 2020 calendars and framed/unframed prints will be available for purchase.

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- First 50 guests will receive a FREE 2020 Life on the Chesapeake Bay wall calendar -

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Parking Information

In addition to street parking, 30 parking spaces are available at Horn Point Harbor Marina (105 Eastern Avenue) and and additional 20 Spaces are available in the parking garage under the office building at 613 Third Street. These spaces are available after 5pm on Friday, December 6th. Parking is not permitted across the street at the Eastport Yacht Center.

Hoopers Island Photography Workshops - October 2019

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.

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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.

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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.

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Derelict workboat in Farm Creek.

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Striped Bass scale detail.

Red Fox living on an isolated island.

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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.

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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.

Gibson Island Club - Art Instillation

Instillation of a three month exhibit at the Gibson Island Clubhouse in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

St. Annes Day School Photography Workshop - 10.8.2019

Last week, I took a group of 7th grade students from St. Anne's School of Annapolis on a half-day workshop to teach them the value of photography to document history and as a visual storytelling tool.

Students picked their favorite photographs from my 2020 calendar and shared their reasoning with the group.

Students with Katherine Burke of the Annapolis Collection Gallery.

Walking around downtown Annapolis to find inspiration for photographs.

Learning about portrait photography on the steps of the Maryland State House.

H.C. Porter working on a mixed media collaboration with my photographs from 'Working the Water'