Landscapes & the Natural World
ONLY THE WIND -- Maia, Sao Miguel Island, Azores (June 15, 2025) -- This is the red-doored ruins of an old mill building on the northern coast of Sao Miguel Island in the Azores. There are no roads to these public watermills that were driven by streams running down the steep slopes and which historically allowed poor, subsistence farmers to grind their small grain harvests into flour. They were abandoned during the 20th century as many residents emigrated.
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.
LIQUID LANDSCAPE (OAK CREEK CANYON) -- Slide Rock State Park, Arizona (January 12, 2026) -- The angle of morning light and the sun's brushwork on flowing water create a dynamic abstract painting. The creek reflects and refracts the red rock and blue sky above and the filtered green of the creek bed below.
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)
GREEN, COLD, AND CLEAR -- Peneda-Geres National Park, Portugal (June 27, 2025) -- The Seven Lagoons are a series of spectacular, natural, jewel-like rock pools full of clear, cool, green-emerald-turquoise water, all connected by waterfalls along the Cabril River in Portugal. A visit to these pools can bring one close to paradise for a few hours.
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.
PINE POLLEN BLUES -- West Newbury, MA (June 9, 2024) -- After a rainy week in June, a dog named Molly ran through the thick layer of tree pollen floating in a puddle at the corner of our driveway, and inadvertently created swirling, strangely beautiful patterns in the shallow water. Here the yellowish pollen is tinted blue.
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.
GRAND CANYON GOLDEN HOUR -- Bright Angel Trail at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona (January 12, 2026)
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.
BOYNTON CANYON CAVES -- Sedona, Arizona (January 10, 2026)
SUN ON CATHEDRAL ROCK -- Sedona, Arizona (January 9, 2026)
FRENCH WHEATFIELD WITH POPPIES - Matignon, Brittany, France (July 2, 2024)
INSIDE THE CRATER - Sete Cidades, Sau Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal (June 19, 2025)
MOUNTAINTOP VIEW - Welch Mountain, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire (September 21, 2024)
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.
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.
DOURO RIVER VALLEY - Pinhao, Portugal (June 24, 2025)
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.)