My Week In Review

I haven't blogged in almost a week, and it's not from lack of material. So I decided to blog my week in review, all in one post.....from my sister's suggestion.....she wants to see all the pictures at once. So make your self comfortable and here we go......

A trip to Boston on a foggy day (more to come from this trip in an upcoming post)

A Canada Goose Family at the Abington Cemetery

A nesting swan in Pembroke MA

I won "Digital Image of the Year " in the Advanced Category at Camera Club the other night at our final meeting of the year with this image:

Yeah for me!

Took my Dad to Webb Park in Weymouth and the Cherry Blossoms are blooming

And last but certainly not least.....a visit with my new Grandson Henry!

My son N and his baby boy. LOVE this

Handsome Henry

Ryleigh loves her baby cousin

I also photographed at a Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday, but will do a separate blog post on that trip over the weekend.

Happy Friday the 13th!!!!

Happy Mothers Day

Mothers Day is extra special for us this year. I would like to introduce our new Grandson, Henry, who joined us this week. Henry is perfect and Mom is doing great. We are so in love with our new little guy!

A Mother's Love:

Wishing all of the Moms a happy and blessed Mothers Day!

Kindness, Generosity, and Most Of All Love

You have seen me mention my friend David on a few recent blog posts. David is battling stage 4 brain cancer. A group of his friends got together to put on a fundraiser event to help David in his time of need. I'm honored to have been on this fundraising committee with such caring, helpful, generous, and kind people.
Our world is in such a troubled time right now. There is so much anger, violence, prejudice, and hate. Just look at our Presidential Candidates. It literally makes me sick and disheartened. And then you see something like this come together. So many people have donated their precious time, talents, money, food, resources etc to help another person.....and in some cases someone they never actually met before......yet gladly help out because they can.
To me, that is what it's all about. That is the reason why we are hear on this Earth. To help others. And it's just damn awesome to see it happen.

Here are the emcees for the evening of the event. This is Butch Stearns, a Sportcaster on FOX 25 News in Boston, along with his talented brother Derek Stearns. These men had never met David.....yet they took their own personal time to help make this event a success. My heart is so touched by their generosity and kindness.

Here is David, thanking the crowd for attending. FOX 25 news sent a camera crew to the event. None of us knew they were going to be doing this. It has not been aired yet, but I will let you know when it will be aired if you are interested in seeing it.

As a surprise for the evening.....David and his wonderful and loving girlfriend Theresa did a commitment ceremony. I don't know if there was a dry eye in the house. It was so beautiful and touching.

The future is so uncertain for all of us........but even more so for them. But with love, they will conquer whatever they are faced with together.

No words are needed.

One Of My Favorite Places To Shoot

I will be leading 28 photographers on a trip to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont next month. (Yikes, yes I said 28) The reason for this trip is a fundraiser for my good friend and fellow photographer, David, who is battling brain cancer. 100% of the money that I charged the participants will go directly to David to support him in his time of need. That is the reason that I didn't limit the number of participants.....so that I could raise as much money as possible.

I have been working on the itinerary for this workshop, and have been looking through some of my Vermont photos. I'm sharing one of my favorite "Vermont spots" here on this blog post. I am pretty proud of this "location". It is located not far from our vacation home in Barton. I have shared images that I've taken from this spot on The Scenes of Vermont Website Forum, where I am a moderator. My good friend and mentor Andy Richards, whom I met on this forum, featured one of the images that he took at this location in his e-book on photographing scenes in VT. titled "Photographing Vermont's Fall Foliage: Where To Find The Iconic Shots".  This e-book is available to download from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other e book providers.

Here is a sample image of this location that I shot just after sunrise last Fall.

I'm really looking forward to getting back up to the NEK with my camera. No matter what the season, beauty abounds.

Cormorant Weymouth MA

This Cormorant was "air drying" his wings the other day, near the Herring Run in Weymouth MA

Plymouth County Farm/Petting Zoo

One day last week I had a Nana and Ryleigh day. Ryleigh could choose anyplace to go that day.......her choice?......"I want to go to a farm". This kid loves farms and farm animals.....she's a little clone of her Nana and I love it!

It was my first time visiting the Plymouth County Farm. Unfortunately, most of the animals were not there yet. I was told by one of the workers that it was still too cold for them, and more animals would be arriving in a week or two, as the temperatures warmed up. We did get to see some goats and chickens.

This goat was so content to scratch an itch.....

She just loves to see the farm animals.....

This image was processed using Topaz Texture Effects.....

A fun day and will return this Summer for sure.

Earth Day 2016

Happy Earth Day!