Rockport MA and Motif #1

Motif #1 is at the end of the Bradley pier in Rockport Mass. It reputed to be the most painted building in America and very well could be. I know of the past 15 years, I’ve been there many times.

This building has been a centerpiece of many maritime paintings and photographs over the years. This accounts for why this is one of my best selling Rockport images.

I shot a wedding there, I have arrived at dawn to watch the sun come up and I have arrived when the temps are in the negative numbers. I don’t think there is a time that isn’t a great time to visit Motif #1.

My favorite memory of Rockport

I arrived one warm May morning, and the brightness that was to come once the sun cleared the horizon was nothing more than a hint on the horizon. I walked around the harbor, sharing it with a few lobstermen who were preparing their boats to head out for their days work.

As the sun cleared the horizon and started its climb upward, I walked the very quiet streets of Bearskin neck which is where the majority of the artists galleries and tourist shops are located.

I actually found one shop open, the bagel place. So, with all other places closed I went in for a cup of coffee and a bage,l and then I found out they had a small deck on the harbor side of the shop.

So I went out and sat down to enjoy the rising sun sparkling on the harbor. The morning was quiet but the town was also waking up to another day and I could hear a motor in one of the lobster boats start its guttural low roar and the diesel started to warm up for the journey out to check the lobster traps out on the ocean.

Jeff “Foliage” Folger  

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