Author: barryhassphoto

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.”

Just a slice of life on a city street.

This is the time of year when skunk cabbage starts popping up in swamps and marshy woodlands. The plants will turn green and leafy in a few weeks, but for now they look to me like tiny aliens.

Previously known as the John Hancock Tower.

Welcoming home our friends Phil and Lynn, just back from their Hawaiian adventure.

Richard Avedon was one of the preeminent portrait and fashion photographers of the late twentieth century. One of the signature elements of his style was the presentation of his subject against a white background.

Of course, Ansel Adams – the Beethoven of nature photographers – needs no introduction.

I have no idea whether the two of them ever met, but I would like to imagine that Ansel dropped by Richard’s studio one winter afternoon to drag him out for a walk in the park. And that if he had, they might have collaborated on a picture that looked something like this.

Back in real life, I photographed this Dawn Redwood in the schoolyard behind my house after a recent snowstorm.