Looking Up

Focus Point

2011-12-06T11:32:00.001-05:00

I posted an image on Facebook that I liked, but there was just something missing. Asked Stoney Stone for recommendations that started a short journey of enlightenment. Here's the original picture: Stoney recommended cropping the picture to a square because the drooping branches on the right are distracting. Ok, done. But now I think that the gap on the left is distracting! Time for

The first Wildflower of Spring

2011-04-13T12:23:00.002-04:00

I had a tough weekend. Saturday, I went to Concord to shoot the re-enactment of the first battle of the revolutionary war at the Minuteman National Historical Park. I was there at 11:00, but no action. Then I checked my printout and found that it was scheduled for 1:00, not 11. So I went over to the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Pretty bleak. There was a nesting redwing and a swan

In Praise of Point-an-Shoot Cameras

2011-04-05T09:01:00.000-04:00

There's a new camera in the family, a Canon SX30IS. It's a beauty. I got it for Gary before he took a trip to Texas where he would be seeing spring flowers in an arboretum and migrating shorebirds at an NWR. Gary loves wildlife and has been carrying a big DSLR with a huge 500mm lens in a backpack for quite some time. I decided to upgrade his equipment. He took the SX30

Good Morning, Spring!

2011-04-05T08:19:00.001-04:00

This is the first morning we three watched the sunrise on the deck. The air is rich with the babble of songbirds, once a monotone of chickadees but now a full symphony to spring. I had intended to photograph the Arnold Arboretum this morning. Last night's visions of bare branches rising ghostly from the spring fog gave way to visions of sugarplums during a night with many wakings. So when

The End of Winter

2011-04-02T11:46:00.001-04:00

Winter is over. It paid us a farewell visit yesterday, on April Fool's day, but this morning my backyard park is full of kids playing soccer and the trees are busy pushing out buds again. Soon I'll be searching for hepatica and arbutus at the wildflower garden. But right now, I'm wondering where winter went and why I don't feel like I got enough photos. Christmas in Boston I spent most of

Blue Ice

2011-01-24T16:43:00.007-05:00

I've spent the afternoon playing with blue ice. Not the real stuff, way too cold, but a picture of frozen salt water in Downeast Maine. I liked the patterns in the ice, and I liked the blueness in the photo I took, but wanted to see what else could be done with it. I was thinking about the work of a facebook friend, Stoney Stone, while I shot the ice. "How would Stoney frame it?" One of the

Light at Nubble Light

2011-01-04T16:47:00.001-05:00

After last week's blizzard, I went to Maine to capture the Nubble. The prospect of getting beautiful snow pictures was really exciting - I love winter! So I arrived before sunrise and shot the changing light. It was a totally cloudless day, not the best for photography, but I like the pictures I got. There was snow on the ground and the light was really clear. Then I wandered up the

Happy New Year

2011-01-01T00:01:00.003-05:00

The holiday season is fast approaching its end, highlighted on New Years Eve by First Night Boston. I know there are other First Night celebrations, but this is mine and I love it. I used to work for First Night Boston, until I was replaced by a platoon of volunteers with digital cameras. Now that's progress! Anyway, I brought out a couple of old pictures to share with you. Back in the day, I

Wreaths

2010-12-24T08:00:00.001-05:00

Here it is, the 24th already. The shopping is done, the cookies are baked, and I'm enjoying treasured time with family. Trouble is, we're spread out all over the United States and not able to be together for Christmas. Every time I open a Holiday greeting, I try to spend a moment thinking of the person who sent it. A college friend. A little sister. A new facebook friend. It's not about the

Capturing Christmas Lights

2010-12-04T21:34:00.014-05:00

Holiday photos take many forms. Since I live in a city, I have many opportunities to catch some great sparkle. Store windows, downtown streets, and glowing trees are full of signs of the coming holiday. Doors and windows are all glitzed up, and offer opportunities to capture wreaths, swags, and lights. I try to avoid shooting into other people's windows, because I know I wouldn't like to find

Where in Maine 12/2010

2010-11-22T13:08:00.000-05:00

Have you opened the December issue of Down East, the Magazine of Maine yet? I've got a double-page picture on pages 6-7. It's the old tavern in... whoops, I almost told the secret! It's this month's "Where in Maine", and you're supposed to guess where it is. Looks great, eh?

Autumn in the rear view mirror

2010-11-20T20:30:00.000-05:00

Just finished editing my autumn work. It's 8:30 at night, there's Christmas music on TV, and I'm still in my jammies. But the big edit is done. Here are my favorites. Enjoy! 2010 Falls Best - Images by Susan Cole Kelly

Autumn in Boston Public Garden

2010-11-18T16:14:00.000-05:00

I love living in Boston. It's odd, because I'm not very social, don't hang around the theater or ballet, don't even go out to eat much. But I still love Boston. Visually, it's just wonderful to be able to wander around the parks - Boston Common, the Public Garden, the Charles River Esplanade to name a few. From cherry blossoms in April to late foliage in November, there's always color. Follow

November Blues

2010-11-12T12:46:00.000-05:00

It hits me suddenly. I'm scurrying around, trying to get pictures of the last golden leaves before they all fall and the world is bare. Suddenly, it hits me: the world IS bare, autumn IS over, and I'm spinning my wheels. I look at the last few days of pictures and realize that it's time to stop shooting foliage, because the foliage is gone. I find myself catapulted through the five stages of

A sliver of light and a nice guy

2010-11-02T19:40:00.002-04:00

When I woke up this morning, there was a huge cloud over my house but a big clear space in the East. Now, I know that weather usually moves from West to East, but I ignored this knowledge as the weatherman was saying something about clearing. So I made breakfast, got ready, and arrived on the waterfront of Boston before sunrise. A glance at the sky told me I'd need to wait a while, because a

The Robinson Farm

2010-10-16T17:06:00.001-04:00

Just a quick update... My farm has been found! It's the Robinson Farm, in Woodstock. Thanks so much to Judy Lombardi, sleuth extraordinaire! And to Google Street View so I could see what she was showing me.

The last foliage in Vermont

2010-10-14T21:50:00.006-04:00

I went to Hartland Lake near Woodstock, VT, this morning, hoping for a little fog on the water, and maybe some red light at sunrise, and maybe a few pink clouds from the approaching storm. It looked good on the map. The lake stretches from west to east, surrounded by hills, and I hoped the warm sunlight would rake the trees. I guess they only grant one wish at a time, and mine was for fog. I

Jackman and Route 201 in Maine

2010-10-07T12:12:00.001-04:00

One of these days, I'll be in this spot near Jackman, Maine, at sunrise and the mountain will be radiating red alpenglow and the lakes will be reflecting it, and the foliage will be peak and the sky will be neon and.... Well, I was there, but the sun didn't show up even though the weatherman assured me it would. He tricked me into getting up at 3:30 and driving 75 minutes to get my fantasy

Moonlight at Pemaquid

2010-09-21T11:01:00.000-04:00

I've been chasing storm waves from hurricane Igor for four days. Friday was too early, but on Monday the surf warnings were up along the Maine coast. I had already hit Schoodic Point and gotten wave pictures, but I really wanted something special. So I decided to drive three hours down to Bristol to get storm waves with Pemaquid Point Light. You've seen the lighthouse a zillion times. The

Nubble Light in Blue

2010-09-19T15:34:00.000-04:00

Last Friday, I had plans to do Nubble Light at sunrise with storm waves from hurricane Igor. But I didn't get up at 3:00, so by the time I got to the lighthouse the sun had risen behind a thick cover of clouds. It was gray, really gray. Not only that, but the storm waves hadn't shown up yet. Yuk! So I added a 1.8 neutral density filter to my lens. This made everything dark, so my

Surf at Schoodic

2010-09-06T18:22:00.006-04:00

I've been playing with waves all weekend. Hurricane Earl came and went, and Saturday the waves were high. There's no place better than Acadia for surf, and I do have some pictures of waves breaking 50 feet in the air with a crowd of onlookers. But this morning the ocean was back to normal, and we hit Schoodic Point again at sunrise. The images are in process, but I just had to stop for this

Hurricane Skies

2010-09-03T16:47:00.000-04:00

The sky has been red for three mornings, and now hurricane Earl is imminent. The storm seems to be fizzling out after all the hype on the weather channel, but we saw its impact this morning - on the sunrise. This is Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park, ME.

Ipswich, Essex and a Crane Beach Sunrise

2010-08-28T16:48:00.000-04:00

A morning on the North Shore of Massachusetts. A Crane Beach sunrise. Ipswich marshes. Essex village. It's all within an hour of my Boston home. At this time of year, I can leave the house at 4:30 and get there in time for pre-sunrise color. Sunrise light on sand ripples at Crane Beach Crane Beach dawn Sunrise sky XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX As well as

Newburyport, MA

2010-08-27T09:14:00.000-04:00

Newburyport and the Merrimack River in autumn Firehouse Center for the Arts Newburyport, on the northern coast of Massachusetts, seems to have it all. With easy access to Boston and major highways, a vital and interesting downtown, and a myriad of preserved natural areas, it's a great town to visit or to live in. Recreational opportunities include shopping, local festivals, hiking,

Portsmouth, NH

2010-08-19T17:18:00.010-04:00

I love Portsmouth. If I ever move from Boston, this is at the top of the list of places I'd like to live. It has the perfect combination of urban cool, preserved history, maritime charm, coastal scenes, and easy access to some of the most beautiful areas of New England. It's just a really nice place to be. For now, Portsmouth is an easy day-trip. Or a stop-over on the way to the White Mountains

Lake Champlain - Travel Planning

2010-08-13T18:13:00.010-04:00

There's a lot more in Northwestern Vermont than Burlington. When I traveled to Lake Champlain in August, I planned a three-day trip that would give me some variety.On day 1, I drove to central Vermont, hit Montpelier for lunch, and spent the afternoon doing a loop around Mount Mansfield. Waterbury, Stowe, and Smugglers Notch. I had planned on driving the auto road up Mt Mansfield but got there

A Day in Burlington VT

2010-08-12T11:43:00.000-04:00

I traveled to Northwestern Vermont last weekend, to update my inventory of Burlington, the Lake Champlain Islands, and the Stowe area.Burlington is a young, vital city on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. Being from the East Coast, I'm accustomed to beautiful sunrises. Lake Champlain is so big that it's like being on the West coast - it's the sunset that's spectacular here! The waterfront

Vegetables, Beautiful Vegetables!

2010-08-11T20:52:00.001-04:00

I went to the Farmers' Market in Burlington, Vermont this weekend and found a riot of color and texture in each stall. At this time of year, you get the deep rich colors of the root vegetables, and their shapes are amazing. Some of the vendors are happy to have people admire their produce, and I made sure to come back later to buy from them.It was a happy break from my usual landscape images and

NH Lakes and Mountains

2010-08-09T19:52:00.000-04:00

Last week's road trip took me to New Hampshire's Lakes and White Mountains. I stayed in Ashland, which is a very convenient location to explore from. The first day I drove up to the Kancamagus Highway, through Bear Notch, over Crawford Notch, to Jefferson, and back to Ashland. Day two was lakes day - sunrise in Meredith, then on to Holderness, Chocorua, Ossipee, Eaton, and Conway before going

Cardinal Flowers

2010-08-08T20:54:00.007-04:00

Cardinal flowers. Where do you go to find them? No, you just notice them, driving past a small stream, out of the corner of your eye. A flash in the woods, a shaft of sunlight, a flame. I was looking for lake scenics. I found cardinal flowers. Who's complaining?

Wet Meadow in the Berkshires

2010-07-28T19:44:00.003-04:00

Sometimes I get impatient with the Berkshires. A beautiful area, and I love the mountains, but the cultural features seem inaccessible. For a photographer, at least. The mansions and cultural venues are hidden away out of sight, and you can get in legal trouble for publishing photos of them. Sometimes I go to the Berkshires with a list of shots, and come home feeling like I didn't get what I came

A quick trip to Nantucket

2010-07-25T18:56:00.011-04:00

I opened my email Wednesday night and found a customer request for pictures of Nantucket. I have Nantucket, but the pictures are old film scans, and I know I can do better. Seems I never get over there - everything on the island is so expensive that I just can't break even going for a few days and shooting for stock. This is a good customer, and I do pretty well with them. I want to be a

A foggy day in Scituate

2010-07-17T05:50:00.010-04:00

The weather has been humid lately and mornings have been foggy. Foggy photos can be charming, but fog and mist present challenges that need to be dealt with. Cameras are calibrated to make good exposures in average conditions. "Average" is the tone of summer grass and blue sky, paved streets, and brick walls. When a camera encounters a scene that's supposed to be very light or very dark, it

The Kerry House - tone-mapped

2010-07-14T19:21:00.008-04:00

This is the Beacon Hill home of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. It is a beautiful building in a beautiful neighborhood. Yet, I have passed it by at least a dozen times. Its formal majesty is not inviting to me. The street is narrow, so if I use a wide-angle lens the sides of the building lean in to the middle, and I've just never connected with it. Yesterday as I passed, I decided to try

Beacon Hill Reflections

2010-07-08T10:24:00.004-04:00

Yesterday I wrote that I always use a polarizing filter. Yup, always. That made me think - would the world come to an end if I let in a stray reflection or two? So this morning I went out in search of reflections - not to a pond, nor a harbor, but to Beacon Hill, in Boston. Many of the windows and doors reflect buildings across the street. Sometimes it's possible to capture the reflection of a

Marblehead Morning

2010-07-07T20:52:00.006-04:00

This morning I was hoping for fog, but I got heavy haze instead. I think it worked out ok. A pink sunrise was followed by over two hours of soft, golden light which made it really easy to get pictures with low contrast, saturated color, great reflections. A very busy shooting day, over by 8:00. - - - - - - - - - - Marblehead is a wonderful town to photograph. It has a very scenic

Revere Beach Bandstand

2010-07-06T09:00:00.005-04:00

Boston is having a heat wave, and I'm planning to stay in and catch up with some of the things-to-do list. But before sequestering myself, I thought I'd run out before sunrise and get some images of Revere Beach.I've been thinking of this project for some time - the beach is 15 minutes from my house, easily accessible, and has some interesting architecture and spectacular views of the

The Redcoats are coming!

2010-07-04T07:36:00.005-04:00

- - People pictures. I don't know why I even try. They always turn out terrible. Every time I get a human in the viewfinder, I forget everything I know about lighting, composition, and timing. No eye-contact, no connection. Fortunately, Redcoats on parade work any way you can get them. The Redcoats are coming! Huzzah!

Back in Boston

2010-07-03T08:20:00.008-04:00

Moving from Maine to Boston is always jarring. You trade the noise of crickets for the noise of airplanes. The smell of seaweed for the smell of traffic. YUK! But Boston is a such beautiful city. I can shoot both sunrise and sunset in several locations with water in the foreground. Boats and skylines and reflections. Boston Harbor. The Charles River. Such a gorgeous city. - - I've been

Kitty Vacation

2010-06-22T14:58:00.007-04:00

The kitties have had a wonderful vacation. They're now sprawled out on the screenporch, enjoying the warmth that has only recently arrived in Downeast Maine. This is Squeechie, separated from a tasty chipmunk by a screen. So close she can taste it! Below you can see Maya, also hunting critters, and napping. It has been a wonderful vacation.Soon they'll be home in Boston listening to airplanes

One Boat,Two Boat, Red Boat, Blue Boat

2010-06-16T16:41:00.006-04:00

There are sailing harbors and there are fishing harbors. It was never something I thought about until I started photographing them. Go to a Maine sailing harbor in June, and it looks like you're in a ghost-town. Many of the boats are still in dry dock or in their owners driveways until the 4th of July or so. But go to a fishing village in June and you'll find a buzz of activity. The boats are in

Three Days in Sugar Hill

2010-06-04T07:43:00.020-04:00

The Lupine bloom in northern New England is like a mini foliage season. Photographers travel from other states to capture images of the lovely blossoms covering the hillsides. Two areas host festivals around the season: The Deer Isle Lupine Festival in Maine, and the Fields of Lupine Festival in Sugar Hill, NH. The season extends through the two middle weeks of June, although peak bloom varies

Smoky Sunset

2010-05-31T21:59:00.005-04:00

It's Memorial Day, and wildfires in Canada are sending plumes of smoke our way. I've been trying to avoid the smoke all day. The morning sky was a thick, yellowish white, and the air was bad to breathe. It cleared partially this afternoon, but the evening light was murky, with no warm light on the mountains as I had hoped. So I found a spot and faced west, and shot this sunset over a mountain

Happy Memorial Day

2010-05-30T20:46:00.003-04:00

Here's my Memorial Day offering. These flags have been on Boston Common for a few days, and are very touching. The people who view them are respectful and solemn. My Dad would have loved it. Boston Memorial Day Flags

Fox Family

2010-05-23T18:36:00.005-04:00

We were driving around today, checking out places to shoot at sunrise and enjoying the warm summer weather. There's an old campground nearby that's being developed into waterfront lots and estate sites... we thought we'd better explore it now, because soon it will be one more inaccessible piece of the Maine coast. Driving down a gravel road past campsites, we spotted a flash of reddish fur. We

Lupines and Lady's Slippers

2010-05-18T19:42:00.003-04:00

It's Mid-May, and the Lupines are coming out. They grow rampant on roadsides and in fields, escapees from farm gardens. We find them on well-drained hillsides and think we've discovered treasures. They are, in fact, treasures. Towns have Lupine fests around them. Calendars are decorated with their images. They are beloved flowers in the countryside, wild or not. Lupines, lovely lupines.This

Backyard beauty

2010-05-18T15:32:00.007-04:00

Sometimes I travel to get beautiful pictures. New locations get the creative juices flowing, and I think travel is fun. The Smokies. Acadia National Park. All over New England. After a while, it gets old (or is it me?) and I crash. Take a while to process all those new photos.Walking down the driveway with grocery bags in hand, I noticed some bunchberries beside the road. Then a violet.

Rhodora

2010-05-11T16:42:00.006-04:00

Yesterday was a nice, softly-lit day. We drove around Acadia National Park a bit, and took the Jessup Trail. At the second stream crossing, we turned left, off the trail, following a herd of white-tailed deer into the Great Meadow, a heath under Dorr Mountain. This is one of my favorite spots in May. The combination of bright pink Rhodora and green Tamarack (Larch) trees is so beautiful, I never

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2010-05-08T17:14:00.013-04:00

Last weekend, I celebrated a very big birthday with two of my sisters who live "down South". After they left, I took a couple of days to shoot mountain scenics and say good-bye to the Smokies, a place I truly love. My family spent vacations here; my Mom is resting here. We have many happy memories of horseback riding, hiking, shopping, and spending happy family time here.So I spent two days

Early Spring in Vermont

2010-04-27T19:01:00.011-04:00

I never hit spring in Vermont. It's like the old joke - blink and you'll miss it. One day it's miserable. cold and raw, with bare trees and brown grass. Two weeks later, the trees have leafed out and it's summer. So I really had no idea what to expect last weekend. Just needed to get out of Boston, and Vermont was calling. I planned a route that would give me some variation, Woodstock to Rutland

Boston in Bloom, Week II

2010-04-21T11:21:00.002-04:00

I've been going in to the city almost every day for a couple of weeks now. Spring is happening so fast that three days makes a substantial difference in what you see. This week, it's tulips and apple blossoms. I drove around Sunday but couldn't park, due to the crowds in town for the Boston Marathon. Monday I got this shot, and several like it. George Washington rising from the tulips. Went to NH

All this and the taxes are done!

2010-04-15T15:55:00.005-04:00

Boston Spring 4/5/10

2010-04-04T20:26:00.003-04:00

Spring is coming to Boston like a landslide! Flowers that usually are due on Patriots Day - April 19 - are opening now, on April 05, two weeks early. The daffodil fields in North Point and Paul Revere Parks are brilliant with white, yellow, and green. Back Bay saucer magnolia are within a couple of days of being peak. And, since the weather forecast is sunny and very warm, the cherries on the

Saguaro Close-ups

2010-04-01T11:33:00.010-04:00

I usually take pictures with a 24-105mm zoom lens, which gives me a comfortable distance from my subject. It's a head thing - I don't really like being too close. But, of course, it's much better to bring variety to a portfolio, so I try to remember to employ as many different perspectives as possible. Here are a couple of close (not macro) shots of Saguaro cactus, taken in sunrise light in

Grand Canyon, Grand Light

2010-03-28T18:46:00.007-04:00

Here's the first Grand Canyon image I'll share with you, taken just before sunrise from a spot along the South Rim. Before sunrise. The light you see was reflected from the bright sky in the East, before the sun broke the horizon. Soft, warm, golden, sweet light. Sure, it helps that the subject being lit is breathtaking. But fine-art photography is about the quality of the light. It's about

Arizona Desert in Bloom

2010-03-28T14:46:00.019-04:00

Snow's cool. In December, January and February, snow's cool. By March, I'm struggling. You can hear it in my blog entries. You can see it in the images. Time for a break. Photographer Jack Dykinga once told me to come to the desert in El Nino years, to see the wildflowers in bloom. 2010 seemed the perfect opportunity. So we made our travel arrangements, hoping to hit peak bloom sometime

Daffodil Festivals

2010-03-11T17:23:00.008-05:00

A Daffodil bouquet for you Daffodils - Images by Susan Cole Kelly After a long brown mud season, New England bursts into color with a burst of daffodil festivals. It's time for eye-candy! Here's a list of upcoming events and places where you can view and photograph thousands of daffodils Connecticut Wadsworth Mansion, near Middletown, CT Daffodil Day is April 18, call (860) 347-1064 to

Welcome Door

2010-03-10T13:55:00.008-05:00

I pass this door, on a long-closed church, on one of my walking routes. Post office, grocery store, home - about a mile. The church is nothing special, just a brick building, once consecrated but now abandoned. It's the juxtaposition of the peeling paint with the big Welcome sign that grabs me. In my neighborhood there are some empty buildings, but many more that have been renovated or at least

Hawk Watch

2010-03-10T12:38:00.006-05:00

It's getting noisy at my house. I open the door on warm(ish) mornings and am greeted with a chorus of tweets: house finches, goldfinches, mocking birds. So nice to feel the world is waking up. This morning I took a walk and spotted this red-tailed hawk, who is a neighbor. Of course, I hadn't brought my camera, and knew that if I went to get it, he'd be gone. So I walked for twenty minutes and

Hibernating

2010-03-08T09:35:00.014-05:00

This is a photograph of Wildcat Ridge, shot through a birch grove in Pinkham Notch, NH, last Friday. A friend hiked up there on Sunday morning, shooting the sunrise light shining on Mount Washington. Other friends are taking pictures of early spring flowers, honey bees, rushing rivers, winter festivals, sunsets.... I'm looking out my window and seeing kids playing soccer in shorts & tees, in a

White Mountain - Winter? Spring?

2010-03-05T09:23:00.004-05:00

New Hampshire's White Mountains are so beautiful. In autumn, the bright fall foliage is beyond compare. In summer, the mountains and their streams & waterfalls offer a cool green respite from the heat. In winter, the snow-covered peaks against a bright blue sky are fresh and cold and gorgeous. The mountains offer a natural experience to millions of New Englanders and visitors.I hadn't been to the

Beach or mountains?

2010-03-03T16:36:00.006-05:00

It's snowing again, with a blustery wind and several inches predicted by morning. Where to go? Cape Cod lighthouses, where there's sure to be lots of fresh snow? Or the White Mountains, where the snow may be older?I love lighthouses. Love the opportunity to mix natural light with manmade light. The blue of dawn & dusk, red at sunrise, gold at sunset. Add a red or white lighthouse beacon,

Just one more...

2010-03-01T16:03:00.004-05:00

You get home from a photo trip. You go through the new photos. You pick out your favorites. Town common with maple syrup buckets. Town common with flags. Babbling brook with snow. The next day or two, you go through the rest of the images. And there you find a gem. A tiny pond with a frosting of new snow. Aqua sky, delicate branches, a few reeds. No red, white, or blue. Just a quiet image you

Ridiculously Beautiful II

2010-02-28T17:23:00.006-05:00

More pictures from yesterday in Central Massachusetts. Ridiculously beautiful II.Nashua River floodplainAshby Common churchNew Salem CommonLeominster State ForestFitchburg Common with flags

Ridiculously Beautiful

2010-02-28T12:09:00.014-05:00

Finally, a great snow day. The plan was to go out MA Route 2, shoot around the Green Mountains in VT, and return through southern NH. Whoever makes these plans (me) must think I have wings! I started heading west at sunrise in North-central MA, hit several state forests and picturesque towns, and went through some of southern NH. Still heading west. By 3:30 it was time to make a decision - cross

It's still winter, right?

2010-02-28T11:38:00.006-05:00

In New England, we expect January and February to be deep winter. Soft fluffy snow covering the countryside and jamming up the city. Here's a shot from earlier this week, when I headed out to Concord, MA. When I got there, I decided to picture the flooding on the Concord River, and soon a noise interrupted my concentration. It was the brash song of a Red-winged blackbird. Red-wings are one of the

Let it SNOW!!!

2010-02-23T15:46:00.015-05:00

This year's snow-drought is driving me crazy. I'm shooting on snow days, trying to get beautiful white, but coming home with very little I can use. Why the pressure to get snow everywhere in New England?A number of my customers are calendar publishers. Calendar pictures aren't realistic, they're idealistic. Calendars never have mud season. It almost never rains in calendars. It goes from fluffy

Welcome!

2010-02-21T09:53:00.005-05:00

The instructions say, "Start blogging". Good grief! Start blogging? I'm feeling ancient, and blogging is something kids do! You know, those thirty-somethings. Seems so very self-involved, and who would want to read this stuff anyway?But my life is fun, and I like what I do, and people seem to like my photography, so here goes.Welcome to my blog! The plan is to record my photography sessions,