Landscapes & Nature
LOCATELLI RIFUGIO MOUNTAIN HUT - Tre Cime Natural Park in the Italian Dolomites (July 16, 2017)
RAINCOAT GIRL - Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada (August 3, 2024)
ENERGY FLOWS - West Newbury, MA (July 22, 2025) - The pulses of color and the lines radiating from a central source (just out of sight) in this abstracted picture suggest to me strong currents of energy. Yesterday's sunlight has been captured, converted, and made visible in the stump of an old chokecherry tree in our yard, illuminated by the sun today.
TIDAL EXPOSURE - Scarborough, ME (10-19-2025) - On a foggy night in 1897, a schooner called the Middleton slammed into rocks off Higgins Beach in Scarborough, ME and catastrophically tore open her hull. For over a century, the massive timber ribs of the ship have been inundated and uncovered every day. Only visible at low tide, the shipwreck’s appearance is never exactly the same as the surrounding sands constantly shift and change.
TIDAL EXPOSURE 3 - Scarborough, ME (11/28/2025) - This is a close-up view of part of a massive old ship's timber soaked in saltwater for over a century and temporarily revealed as the tide goes out. It was the keel of the vessel - the backbone of the ship - and it still has large iron spikes protruding from it. This section of wood now has remarkable blue and purple colors, and more this day than I had seen on previous visits. It always seems to be changing. The colors seem to be caused by a chemical reaction between the wood, the slowly oxidizing iron spikes, and the saltwater. In close-up, the swirling grain of the old wood suggests a microcosm of churning currents and whirlpools of water, and the encrusted barnacles look like small islands in a turbulent sea.
TIDAL EXPOSURE 2 - Scarborough, ME (11/28/2025)
BLUE HOLE IN THE SKY - Newburyport, Massachusetts (October 20, 2024)
HOSTA GEOMETRY - West Newbury, Massachusetts (May 20, 2024)
WHEN WATERS RUN DRY - Lancieux, Brittany, France (June 30, 2024)
MOUNTAINTOP VIEW - Welch Mountain, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire (September 21, 2024)
COLD AND CLEAR - Peneda-Geres National Park, Sete Lagoas, Portugal (June 28, 2025)
SWIMMING THROUGH THE UPSIDE DOWN WORLD - West Newbury, Massachusetts (April 19, 2024)
FRENCH WHEATFIELD WITH POPPIES - Matignon, Brittany, France (July 2, 2024)
DOURO RIVER VALLEY - Pinhao, Portugal (June 24, 2025)
NORRIS POINT HARBOR - Norris Point, Newfoundland, Canada (August 6, 2024)
GATE TO THE SPIRIT REALM - Naoshima Island, Japan (November 8, 2023) An ancient Shinto torii gate is half-buried in the sand on a beach on Japan’s Naoshima Island. In the Shinto tradition, these torii gates represent the boundary between the ordinary mundane world and the sacred.
TRANSLUCENT RED - West Newbury, Massachusetts (May 12, 2024)
INSIDE THE CRATER - Sete Cidades, Sau Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal (June 19, 2025)
VOLCANIC ISLAND - Ilheu de Vila Franca, Sau Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal (June 16, 2025)
AFTER THE SNOWSTORM - West Newbury, Massachusetts (February 1, 2025)
CHALK CLIFFS - Eastbourne, England (July 6, 2024)
CLIFFTOP HEATHER - Plevenon, Brittany, France (July 3, 2024)
SUNSET COUPLE - West Newbury, Massachusetts (May 16, 2024)
ALPINE PASTURE AND MOUNTAIN HUT - Puez-Odle Natural Park in the Italian Dolomites, Funes, Italy
CRESCENTS OF LIGHT ON BIRCH BARK (PARTIAL ECLIPSE) - West Newbury, Massachusetts (April 8, 2024)
SHADOW BANDED HORSE - West Newbury, Massachusetts (March 8, 2024)
LOOKING DOWN AT THE STARS - Newburyport, MA (December 20, 2025) - On the eve of the winter solstice, "lake stars" form on the thin ice of a New England pond. This is the Flowering Pond in Maudslay State Park, and the ice reflects many shades of blue from the sky above as well as the columns of pine trees along the shoreline.
DREAM OF WINTER - West Newbury, Massachusetts (February 8, 2024)