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Fine art photographer Troy House presents his fine art photography from Fire Island, New York

08/07/2026

The Cherry Grove Invasion, shot from the air.

Every Fourth of July weekend the Cherry Grove ferry pulls in loaded with drag queens in full regalia, and the Pines empties out to meet them on the dock. It's been happening since the sixties, back when Cherry Grove was one of the only places on the East Coast where gay men and women could just exist without asking permission. What started as a joke between two rival towns turned into one of the great annual rituals of American q***r life.

I was up in the helicopter for this one, no drone, just me and the pilot getting low over the water as the boat came in. From that height you can see the whole thing unfold at once, the gowns, the wig, the crowd waiting, the ferry cutting through the flat gray water like it knows exactly what it's carrying.

Prints from this series come framed, delivered to your place on the island or straight to the Fire Island ferry dock, on the house.

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07/30/2026

Super excited to show all my new images from Saltaire. Here are a few of the new ones, but there are more at www.fireislandfromabove.com. I'm continuing my work and trying to document the whole Island and if you're town or favorite beach hasn't been updated lately, stay tuned, as there's more new work coming.

07/18/2026

Spent last week up in the helicopter, shooting the beaches. New work is out now from Ocean Beach, Saltaire, Kismet, Atlantique, Lonelyville, and Dunewood.

Go find your house. Or go find yourself, if you were out on the sand that week, this is your fit check from above.

Prints come framed and delivered, home or the ferry, your call.

Eastern beaches later this summer. More soon.

07/02/2026

May this Fourth be the best one yet.

To everyone who's got one of my prints hanging on a wall somewhere, and to everyone who just stops to look, comment, whatever, it means more than I can really put into words. This whole thing started as me flying over a coastline I love, and somehow turned into all of you. I don't take that lightly.

I'll be out there this weekend, on the beach most likely. Or up in the air. Keep an eye on the sky, you never know.

Happy Fourth.

06/23/2026

Posted this on my personal account already, so apologies to anyone who's seen it twice.. If you haven't caught it yet, my personal account is Troy House , give it a follow.

Spend a lot of summer out on Fire Island. Thirty five miles from the city, no cars, basically a sandbar in the ocean, and when the weather cooperates the surf is actually good. I was scrolling Instagram one night and landed on the page of a local kid shaping boards under his parents' house, a mile from where I was sitting. Couldn't believe it. Texted him, asked if I could come watch him work. Calvin Hill is his name.

Turned out I knew his mom. Worked with her years ago when I was assisting Patrick Demarchelier, she was a studio manager back then. Small world, smaller island.

He was wrapping up a batch of boards for the season so I got a few shots, but what I really want is him mid shape, hands in it, dust everywhere. Going back this summer to get that. Sat on these photos for a while trying to wait for the right moment, then figured why bother, they're good as they are.

Kid's self taught. Still in high school. Builds boards under a house on stilts. Go check him out, and buy a board or a T-Shirt or give him a follow Calvin

05/28/2026

Kismet earned its name honestly. It means fate, destiny, the thing that was always going to happen. This little stretch of Fire Island showed up on maps in the early 1900s as one of the first communities to take root along the barrier beach, a place where people came because something pulled them there.

This photograph was taken from a helicopter, low and slow over the water, the way you actually see a place when you stop standing in it. Four sizes, three frame options. Ships to your home or straight to the Fire Island freight ferry. Printing, framing, delivery, all of it included.

Three weeks and it's on your wall. That's really all there is to it.

05/20/2026

This is one of my favorite frames in the entire Fire Island from Above collection, shot from a helicopter on a day when the whole human race decided to show up at once. There is so much happening in this single image that you could pull twenty different photographs out of it and not one of them would be boring. A beach full of ambition.People scattered across the sand with nowhere to be.
That is Fire Island in one frame. Some parts of it ask nothing of you, just silence and marsh grass and the sound of the water. And then there is Robert Moses, which asks everything, all at once, without apology.
Robert Moses State Park sits at the western end of Fire Island, the only stretch of this barrier island you can reach by car. Named for the man who built everything and answered to no one, it opened in 1908 and was remade in the 1950s into the front door of a place that never quite wanted one.
Every print comes framed, delivered to your home or directly to the Fire Island ferry, and all photography is captured by the artist from a helicopter.

04/30/2026

There's still plenty of time to get beautifully framed prints delivered to your home this summer. Our pricing includes framing and shipping, delivered right to your door. Take a look at our website and let us help you refresh your beach house for spring.

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