Category Archives: Mountains

12.31.2022 Goodbye 2022! Hello 2023!

Posted on December 31, 2022 by Steve Gingold

2022 hasn’t been an awful year compared to the last couple. Although Covid is still around, most of us have either had it without serious consequences, some with, and the rest either avoided it or had such slight symptoms that … Continue reading →

Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Western Massachusetts | Tagged fog, fog filled valleys, foggy landscape, hills and valleys, landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Monadnock, New England, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, Quabbin Park, Quabbin Valley, western massachusetts, winter | 31 Comments

05.19.2022 Learned a New Trick

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Steve Gingold

In the past I’ve ham-handed my attempts at flare removal. Some have turned out reasonably okay and others not so much. I recently learned a method involving an inverted curves adjustment that does a nice job. Of course, this image … Continue reading →

Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Sunrise, Western Massachusetts | Tagged colorful clouds, colorful sky, Dawn, landscape, Massachusetts, New England, Shelburne, sunrise, The Patten, western massachusetts | 23 Comments

11.21.2021 Mount Norwottuck from Mount Pollux at Dawn

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Steve Gingold

Just before the sun crested the eastern horizon, you can see just a hint of it at the top of Norwottuck, I liked the soft inviting light cast down from above. It was chilly as I mentioned yesterday but with … Continue reading →

Posted in Amherst, Autumn Color, Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Sunrise, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Amherst, bare trees, Clouds, color over the Holyoke Mountain Range, colorful clouds, colorful sky, Dawn, dried grasses, Holyoke Mountain Range, landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Norwottuck, Mount Pollux, New England, sunrise, western massachusetts | 28 Comments

06/01/2021 Foggy Valleys and Hills

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Steve Gingold

There wasn’t much evidence of fog during my ride to New Salem this morning. But the NOAA site said there would be some and, sure enough, they were right. Just in the valleys but that allowed for some nice landscape … Continue reading →

Posted in Black and White, Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Black and White photography, fog, foggy landscape, landscape, Massachusetts, New England, New Salem, North Quabbin, Pack Monadnock, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, western massachusetts | 10 Comments

02.27.2021 You can’t always get what you want

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Steve Gingold

but I did get what I needed. The View I had hoped for a better sky but I was still happy to be standing at Enfield Lookout in Quabbin Park and enjoying this familiar view of Mount Monadnock in New … Continue reading →

Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Enfield Lookout, hills and valleys, landscape, layered hills, Massachusetts, Mount Monadnock, New England, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, Quabbin Park, Quabbin Reservoir, Quabbin Valley, western massachusetts | 10 Comments

12.05.2020-#1700 Mount Grace and Bald Mountain

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Steve Gingold

A re-edit from 2015. About this time so it looks similar today…for a few hours as rain and snow are on the way. Mount Grace is on the right and Bald Mountain on the left. Not this Bald Mountain thankfully. … Continue reading →

Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Bald Mountain, Clouds, East Hill Road, landscape, Leyden, Massachusetts, Mount Grace, New England, western massachusetts | 10 Comments

12.02.2020 Wordless Wednesday-Morning Glow

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Sunrise, Western Massachusetts | Tagged colorful clouds, colorful sky, Dawn, fog, foggy landscape, Harris Hill, landscape, Massachusetts, New England, New Salem, North Quabbin, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, sunrise, Valley Fog, western massachusetts | 30 Comments

10.29.2020 Monadnock’s Purple Mountain Majesty

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Steve Gingold

A favorite view re-edited.

Posted in Autumn Color, Fall Foliage, Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Sunrise, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Autumn Color, Fall Foliage, landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Monadnock, New England, New Salem, North Quabbin, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, sunrise, western massachusetts | 12 Comments

09.20.2020 Sunday Sunrise

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Our sunrises the last few days have been affected by smoke from the fires out west. I’ll share some of those iPhone shots later. But this morning we had clear skies and I finally was able to shoot a sunrise…and … Continue reading →

Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Sunrise, Western Massachusetts | Tagged colorful clouds, colorful sky, Dawn, landscape, Massachusetts, New England, New Salem, North Quabbin, Pack Monadnock, sunrise, western massachusetts | 13 Comments

10.20.2019 Mount Monadnock from Enfield Lookout

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Steve Gingold

I haven’t been keeping track, but I am sure I have shot at least 18 images of different compositions from here. Of course, light is always a little different and yesterday the foliage lit up well on the closer mountains … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn Color, Fall Foliage, Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Quabbin | Tagged Autumn Color, Fall Foliage, landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Monadnock, New England, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, Quabbin Park, western massachusetts | 19 Comments