Author: barryhassphoto

I shot this about a month ago, when the maples were still leafing out.

Another image from my B&W photo shoot at Mt. Auburn cemetery.

Inspired by Renoir (https://www.clarkart.edu/artpiece/detail/Onions), and Efren’s Mom’s taco sauce.

I found this sign while wandering around Martha’s Vineyard last weekend. Since I was on foot, I was in no danger of exceeding the speed limit.

Earlier this week, I joined a group from my camera club on an outing to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Established in 1831, it was the first garden cemetery in the US, and is one of the loveliest spots in the Boston area. Although it was a glorious spring day, with many trees in bloom, we decided to give ourselves the challenge of photographing in black and white.

Mount Auburn serves many purposes. It is a park, an arboretum, a tourist attraction, a favorite destination for walkers, and, of course, a cemetery. Looking down from the Washington Tower, I was able to capture many of those identities in a single frame.

Photography gives the illusion of being able to stop and capture a moment in time. But time, like the toy boat in this picture, is always sailing away, slightly out of focus, and just out of reach. And this forever frozen in time toddler? I took this picture in 1970, so he would be in his 50s now.

Flaming new red maple leaves contrast with the pale, minty green of the spring woods, and a brilliant blue sky.

The USS Constitution, a three-masted, wooden hulled, heavy frigate, launched in 1797, is believed to be the oldest ship of any kind still afloat. She is currently a museum ship, docked in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

These seem to be everywhere I look this week.

Coincidentally, this composition technique is called a “Dutch angle.”