These are the lead marchers in the Woods Hole Fourth of July parade.
This is a drone image taken from 400 feet above the ground of the Knob at Quissett Harbor.
The weather looked good for trying again to get an aerial shot of the knob at Quissett Harbor with my drone this morning, the fourth of July. This was my second try and it is better than the first, but still not what I'm hoping to get. The low clouds look cool on the drone video that I captured, but in the still image they make it look like there is a smudge on the lens. This glitch is more obvious in the physical print of the image than on the screen version. So, I'll keep trying.
While driving home from Quissett Harbor my local radio station, WCAI, had a reminder of the many July 4th parades that were planned for today on Cape Cod, including one in Woods Hole. I'd been so focused on getting a photograph of the Knob that I hadn't thought about photographing the parade at Woods Hole.
Woods Hole is a village within Falmouth and is home to some world-famous scientific institutions, especially the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They have a parade on Independence Day and it has all of the fun, offbeat color, and nerdy wackiness that one would expect from a bunch of scientists. It was terrific. There were kids and adults dressed in costumes and marching to drummers and a piccolo player and even a violinist.
At the end of the parade route, there was a traditional water balloon fight with water balloons and giant water guns. I got a lot of video clips of the water balloon fight but didn't think about shooting still images of it until I was riding my bicycle home. I just don't think fast enough to do event photography.
Overall, it was another wonderful day in my town by the ocean.
Monte