Author: barryhassphoto

The rays of the setting sun backlit these leaves and set them aglow.

In what has become a popular post-Halloween tradition here in Newton, hundreds of citizens converged on the grounds of City Hall last Saturday for our annual communal pumpkin massacre. Many forms of ritual gourdicide were on display, including (but not limited to)

The Spiky Board

The Catapult

And of course, The Classic

My son-in-law’s grandmother, known in the family as “Nana,” turned 100 this week. During World War 2, when the Hingham shipyard was desperate for workers, she dared a group of her friends to join her in applying for jobs there. They were all hired, trained as welders, and spent the next three years helping to build more than 200 ships for the North Atlantic fleet. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, ceremonies were held in her honor in a waterfront park, at the site of the former shipyard.

I found this stray climbing the retaining wall outside my house.

Or is it fall foliage does Jackson Pollock?

This pond in Noanet Woods is a riot of color.

Spotted this week at the Stony Brook Audubon Sanctuary in Norfolk, Mass.

Ansel Adams famously compared a photographic negative to a musical score, and a print to a performance of that score. You can find very different versions of some of his famous photos, printed at different times in his career.

The analogy holds for digital photography, even though the physical objects he was referencing have in many cases become virtual. Working in my digital darkroom is as much fun for me as going out and shooting new pictures, and lately I’ve been taking out some old scores and reinterpreting them, using techniques I’ve learned since the last time I played them.

This is a shot I took in 1975 on a trip to southern France. The original was a color slide, now pretty badly faded. But I still like it in black and white.

This sawtooth aspen leaf seems to be caught between seasons.

Taken at Duck Harbor Beach in Wellfleet.