Author: barryhassphoto

Another round number birthday – a time for self reflection, and another self-portrait. If you missed the last one, you can find it here:

Self Portrait at 70 – Son of a Birch

I took this picture a few days ago from a bridge over the Charles River in Natick, at the Broadmoor Audubon sanctuary. Most of the yellow area in this picture is usually under water. But because of this year’s drought, the river banks have widened into a broad, marshy area. Sweet smelling water marigolds have taken advantage of the situation to spread out their range.

We spent last week at Sandy Island on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire. Friday mornings there are devoted to a water carnival, including events like the no paddle canoe race and canoe wars, an aquatic free for all where the object is to sink all your opponents’ canoes and be the last boat afloat. This photo is from the race.

A photo from the early ’70s. But it could have been last week.

I recently went on a photo outing into Boston with the intention of taking candid pictures of people. At first I was annoyed that it was almost impossible to photograph people who were not using their cell phones. Then I realized, that’s what people look like now. I wondered, would visitors from an alien culture think that someone or something is controlling us through those strange little boxes? Would they be wrong?

I don’t usually reuse pictures I’ve posted before, but I think the weather this week calls for an exception to that rule.

A scene from a summer evening in Boston.

Photographing kids is almost too easy, but hard to resist. I’ve heard of a local photography teacher who admonishes her students at the beginning of her course, “No kids, no pets, no flowers!” Last Friday night I went into Boston with a friend on a photo expedition, and we ended up spending a lot of time photographing kids playing in the splash pads near the waterfront. I was having a hard time deciding which of these shots was my favorite, so I decided to include them both.

One of our favorite events of the summer, the New Bedford Folk Festival returned last week after a two year Covid-induced hiatus. The weather was perfect, and music once again filled the streets of the old whaling port.

The Japanese Garden at the Sonnenberg Estate in Canandaigua, NY is a serene spot on a summer day.