Photos by Barry Hass

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.

Morning sun graced the fruit bowl on our kitchen table.

Taken in front of the ICA.

I like to imagine that the story behind the patterns in this stump is that an owl lived in this tree for many years. Over time, the owl’s spirit was etched into the tree’s growth rings.

O’Keeffe, that is.

Floating orchid.