Landscapes & Nature
LOCATELLI RIFUGIO MOUNTAIN HUT -- Tre Cime Natural Park in the Italian Dolomites (July 16, 2017) -- The mountain huts and trails in the Italian Dolomites allow many people to connect with this gorgeous environment. Vigilance and cooperation are needed however to prevent people’s love from overwhelming it.
RAINCOAT GIRL -- Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada (August 3, 2024) -- A small girl is out for an evening stroll (with her mother) in Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland near a festival area. Her bright raingear plays off the nearby multi-hued picket fence and streamers, plus the colorful buildings across the bay.
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)
PERFORATED LANDSCAPE -- New York City, New York (June 22, 2024) -- Sunlight streams through a perforated steel wall on Pier 26 in New York's Hudson River Park. This picture won an Honorable Mention: Details & Abstracts in the 2025 NAA Juried Photography Show. The Juror, Cara Weston, said: "This is a wonderful image. I was fascinated with each circle holding a single element of the scene. Rather than one, you are gifted a multitude of images that together tell the story of the scene."
BLUE HOLE IN THE SKY - Newburyport, Massachusetts (October 20, 2024)
HOSTA GEOMETRY -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (May 20, 2024) -- Patterns can be found everywhere in nature. The central leaves of this large Hosta plant reveal beautiful geometric curved grids.
WHEN WATERS RUN DRY -- Lancieux, Brittany, France (June 30, 2024) -- A dry watercourse reveals patterns of cracked mud and footprints in a salt marsh on the coast of France.
MOUNTAINTOP VIEW - Welch Mountain, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire (September 21, 2024)
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IS WRITTEN IN CHALK -- Eastbourne, England (July 6, 2024) -- High winds whip and swirl along the beautiful white cliffs at England’s edge. Elemental forces, plus deep time, reshaped trillions of tiny plankton skeletons into the bedrock of today’s coastal landscape. Change is constant.
INSIDE THE CRATER - Sete Cidades, Sau Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal (June 19, 2025)
SWIMMING THROUGH THE UPSIDE DOWN WORLD -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (April 19, 2024) -- A Mute Swan chases a Canada Goose calmly, but unrelentingly, through shimmering tree reflections in West Newbury, MA.
FRENCH WHEATFIELD WITH POPPIES - Matignon, Brittany, France (July 2, 2024)
DOURO RIVER VALLEY - Pinhao, Portugal (June 24, 2025)
FLOWER ON CROCODILE CRACKS -- Newburyport, Massachusetts (June 8, 2024) -- I placed a lush and colorful rhododendron flower on the monochrome pattern of cracked asphalt outside a wholesale lobster facility in Newburyport’s industrial park. The owner repaved the lot shortly afterwards.
PAPER CRANE AND WOOD #1 -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (April 20, 2024) -- A resident of Hiroshima, Japan gave me this origami paper crane (iconic symbol of hope, healing, and peace) when I visited in 2023. I carry it everywhere I go. Here it rests on the bark of an American tree scorched by fire.
NORRIS POINT HARBOR - Norris Point, Newfoundland, Canada (August 6, 2024)
PAPER CRANE AND LACEBARK ELM -- Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA (April 20, 2024)
TRANSLUCENT RED -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (May 12, 2024) -- Arrested by a flash of red, I stop on the way to the grocery store on a Sunday in early May to walk into the woods and lie flat on a forest floor, soft with pine needles, and look up at the sun filtering through Japanese red maple leaves, feeling at peace.
DREAM OF WINTER -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (February 8, 2024) -- Standing on a bridge over the Artichoke Reservoir, we seem to look down into the sky of a winter dream world beneath the ice.
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.
AFTER THE SNOWSTORM - West Newbury, Massachusetts (February 1, 2025)
CLIFFTOP HEATHER -- Plevenon, Brittany, France (July 3, 2024) -- The heather moors of Cap Frehel are a gorgeous sight for hikers walking along the long-distance path that follows the coastline of Brittany, France.
COUPLE AT SUNSET -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (May 16, 2024) -- This view looks up the narrow channel of the Artichoke Reservoir near the Quaker Cemetery in West Newbury, MA. The color left the sky moments later. The rock is a favorite perch for geese, swans, ducks and cormorants.
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) -- During the 2024 partial solar eclipse in Massachusetts, sunlight filtered through an old hydrangea bloom on to the bark of a paper birch tree – projecting tiny crescents of light that are perfect replicas of the eclipsing sun.
SHADOW BANDED HORSE -- West Newbury, Massachusetts (March 8, 2024) -- The setting sun poured light through a wooden split rail fence in early spring, and cast sharp, intersecting, geometric shadows on a shaggy pony in West Newbury, MA. (For a moment, the pony seemed to wear the mask of Zorro.)
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.
VOLCANIC ISLAND - Ilheu de Vila Franca, Sau Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal (June 16, 2025)
COLD AND CLEAR - Peneda-Geres National Park, Sete Lagoas, Portugal (June 28, 2025)