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.
This hawk seemed to be standing guard on a headstone at Mt. Auburn cemetery.
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.
Photos by Barry Hass 