Whenever I bike past this sign on a quiet road in Weston, Massachusetts, it makes me smile. So this week I finally stopped to photograph it. Oddly, though I’ve been up and down this road dozens of times, at every hour of the day, I’ve never seen any children in the area. They must be ranging far and wide.
Halibut Point in Gloucester, Mass. is a favorite picnic spot of ours, and a great place to watch sunsets. It’s a place where a chaos of boulders tumble from high cliffs down to the sea. This rock looks to me like a petrified whale breaking through the surface.
In my opinion, among the most graceful and musical of flowers.
This is an old favorite of mine, which I shot on Beacon Hill in Boston in the summer of 2007. Besides the characters on the bench, I like the way the sights through the window and the reflections in the window blend together, especially the disembodied hand holding up a finger in the window on the left.
One of the pleasures of summer for me is sitting on our back deck and watching clouds drift through the space in the canopy created by the trees surrounding our yard. I love the feeling of being enfolded by the trees.
Well, I was out there one evening recently, enjoying the cloud and tree show, when who should drop by but the ghost of Vincent Van Gogh? After a short visit he was gone, but he left this behind.
It’s been a very soggy week around here.
I took this picture of a supermoon rising over the Atlantic Ocean from Chatham, Massachusetts in June of 2017.
I do almost all my photo processing using a program called Lightroom, which gives me the ability to do just about everything I ever want to do to a picture. I also have an old copy of Photoshop, which I seldom use. But Photoshop does have some capabilities that Lightroom doesn’t, including the ability to add a variety of artistic effects. I took this picture of a couple canoeing on the Charles earlier this week, and then used a Photoshop filter called “palette knife” on it. Which version do you like better?
