The increasingly precarious position of the house at Ballston Beach was the focus of attention at the beginning of the year. This photo appeared on the front page of the Jan. 20 issue of the Independent, following a nor’easter. In that same issue, to show how much can change in one year, the paper published a photo taken from the same vantage point the previous January. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)For photographer Agata Storer, one good thing about moving to Wellfleet was spending time with her children — and lots of others — at Gull Pond, where summer memories of swimming lessons and encounters with frogs are made. Her photo of Asher Austin, age six, was published in the June 30 issue. (Photo by Agata Storer)Nancy Bloom likes being there for big events, as evidenced by her photographs of last Friday’s storm in this issue. But some of her photos, like this one taken at Pamet Harbor, Bloom’s homeport, conveys the smooth-sailing ease of a summer day. It was published Aug. 4, 2022. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)Some photographs are about capturing the present. But this one has a feeling of capturing something of the past as well. It appeared in a June 16 story about Alex Hanelt’s apprenticeship in jewelry making in his father Günter’s workshop and old-fashioned store, Exuma, on Provincetown’s Commercial Street. (Photo by Agata Storer)
