Trackside
10/22/2011
10/16/2011
10/08/2011
08/24/2011
A walk on the Appalachian Trail
Tree facing North
snail trail
Fern Grove
Adiantum pedatum
Comments Off
07/31/2011
04/29/2011
04/19/2011
04/17/2011
11/28/2010
Hiking Mt. Greylock
A Sunday afternoon hike up Mt. Greylock mountain in Williamstown, MA. This hike is up the Hopper Trail, down Sperry Road to the lookout over the Hopper, then down Haley Farm trail. Its a great hike, gains about 1450 feet in elevation, and takes about 2 1/2 hours.
Comments Off
09/24/2010
The Walk from Work
I live 1 mile from my workplace. I walk most days, so the scenery along the way is familiar. I thought I would take some snapshots on the way home today to see if anything stuck. It looks more interesting in the photos than it does on the ground.
Comments Off
09/22/2010
08/10/2010
Iphone friendly theme added
I’ve added an iphone friendly theme to this site, so that mobile users can view posts on this site easier. Let me know if you see any problems with the site if you are viewing with an iphone or other mobile device.
Below are a few photographs from the Hoosac Transect project. This is an ongoing project which began as a study of the Hoosac Tunnel, and has grown into a project photographing anything interesting along this old rail line.
More photographs can be seen at this link here.
Comments Off
07/21/2010
Drift Wood
Picked clean at the shoreline
leaning from the boat,
stretched long, almost tipping,
fingers grazing and fumbling
among shiny oval leaves.
Half for the pail,
half for me.
Sweet and sour, an unlikely crop
for a ponds edge.
Water and sun, we found the rock, a shelf,
stepped out and dove in.
Muck on the bottom squeezing between toes,
then we back float, feet held high,
that quicksand will swallow you whole.
We dove again, and surfaced with
a mussel clamped to a stick.
And another on the bottom
a hole in the shell,
big enough for a small finger,
soft, white, wet, slimy.
Touch it.
This small life lived here,
stuck,
near the shore of the pond.
Comments Off
06/14/2010
Hiking – Mt. Greylock Hopper Trail
I do a fair amount of hiking. Rather than head to the gym, I go for a hike. Year round, even in the darkest days of winter I’ll strap on a head light and head out for a hike a couple times a week. One of my favorite local places to hike is Mt. Greylock. There are over 50 miles of trails on the mountain, and there is a variety of terrain and trail difficulty.
There are some good hikes linked here on the state website. On Sunday I hiked the Hopper Trail on the Williamstown side of the mountain. It’s a beautiful area, the Hopper is a designated national natural landmark, there are old growth trees, and the unique topography makes for great hiking. The Hopper forms a natural bowl on the west facing side of Greylock, the surrounding peaks of Stoney Ledge, and Mt Prospect make excellent hikes in themselves. I wrote a hike review some years ago on an excellent loop hike that starts in the Hopper, and goes to the summit of Greylock via the Money Brook and the Appalachian trails. A hard all day hike, but one of the best in area.
But Sunday I did a shorter hike up the Hopper Trail to the Sperry Road campround and back down. There are alternate routes that can make this a loop hike by walking down Sperry Road to Stoney Ledge, then down the Haley Farm trail. But I was short on time, so did an up and back. It had been raining, and the cloud cover was low, so some beautiful fog through the trees.
Hopper Trail
Hopper Trail
Comments Off
06/05/2010
Dalton Carnival
What photographer can resist the the traveling carnival as a subject? The Carnival is in town.
Dalton Carnival
Dalton Carnival
Dalton Carnival
Comments Off
05/16/2010
Hoosac Tunnel – East and West Portals
Hoosac Tunnel - East Portal
Hoosac Tunnel West Portal
These photographs – both taken on the same day, show the east and west portal of the Hoosac Tunnel. I shot the west portal first, early in the morning, then drove over the Hoosac mountain range to get to the east portal, during which time a train came through, leaving a lot of diesel smoke in the tunnel. Still an interesting comparison of the two end of one of the oldest tunnels in the US. The west end is looking pretty shabby, with the remains of a broken door covering the original beautiful stone work entrance. This should be removed, it is a historic tunnel, bought with the lives of over 200 men during the 25 years of construction, and it deserves to be better tended and preserved. The two ends are almost 5 miles apart in a straight line, but the tunnel ascends from both ends to a high point in the center, so you can’t see through to the other portal.
Comments Off
05/12/2010
05/11/2010
Fig Tree
A new loosely defined project. Photograph the architecture, and whatever else is interesting, along a corridor defined by an old rail line. The idea is that the rail line was the seed that many of these towns and industries sprang from. So it is the root of these communtities, even though that rail line has all but ceased to exist.
An analogy that comes to mind is a strangler fig tree, which grows around a host tree. Eventually the host tree dies and decays and disappears, leaving a massive fig tree with a hollow interior the shape of the host tree. This project is all about shooting that fig tree, the interior and exterior.
Comments Off
05/10/2010
Nature represented
- Saw Whet Owls
If you dissect a bird
to diagram his tongue
you’ll cut the chord
articulating song
- Weasels
If you flay a beast
to marvel at the mane,
you’ll wreck the rest
from which the fur began
Stanza’s from Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
Comments Off
05/09/2010
Cocktails and Bowling
cocktails and bowling
Does it get any better than cocktails and bowling?
Comments Off
05/05/2010
Pittsfield, MA
Night photographs of this post-industrial city near where I grew up. I shot these in 2002-2003 with a hand held 3-megapixel point & shoot camera. I like the sketchy nature of the images, almost like drawings. I’m interested in the old neighborhoods near the industrial area, in the true heart of the city. More from this series linked here.
Comments Off
