Tag Archives: Dean Brook
05.05.2022 Small but Impactful
While I do enjoy waterfalls, most of the water in motion subjects I shoot are the smaller features. Dean Brook is loaded with interesting cascades and I was drawn to the path of flow and combination of textures in this … Continue reading
04.20.2022 Keep at it
I have made quite a number of photographs from various spots along Dean Brook in Shutesbury. One of them, as you may recall, is Murphy Falls. But there are many other cascades that interest me for their flow patterns and, … Continue reading
04.14.2022 Dean Brook Intimate
Although the cascading water is usually my primary subject I found these broken branches or stumps interesting, especially with the dangling icicles.
04.11.2022 Promise you’ll never let me go
Hemlock and Black Birch seem very compatible in these woods near Dean Brook. I’ve seen them joined like this in other spots nearby. As more is learned about the ecology of forests and soil in general it is becoming more … Continue reading
01.19.2022 Winter’s Chaos
Eliot Porter’s book, “Nature’s Chaos,” is a favorite influence along with “Intimate Landscapes”. There is a lot to be seen in water’s frozen element.
11.26.2021 Falls Friday
Rainy day here in Western Massachusetts. And I’m still in a Tryptophan stupor from yesterday’s gorge. Been napping with Bentley much of the day after our usual 2 a.m. nature call for the both of us. After our day of … Continue reading
11.05.2021 Flashback Friday-Murphy Falls in Autumn
After yesterday’s post from Dean Brook and reference to Murphy Falls, I thought I’d share this old image from 2015. Similar has appeared in portrait format back then but this is the first appearance in landscape. And of course countless … Continue reading
11.04.2021 Roadside Brook and Star
After spending some time enjoying the rising sun and foliage in North Quabbin, I drove through Shutesbury and down Sand Hill Road. Dean Brook runs alongside and, as you’ve seen before, over a little waterfall that I call Murphy Falls. … Continue reading
03.08.2021 An Icicle with Character-2
There were two icicles that i enjoyed finding at the top of the little waterfall I visited on Saturday. This one is a bit more complicated to compose and I went about it from two different angles. In both cases … Continue reading