Although I’ve lived in the Boston area for many years, this long, rocky beach, Wollaston Beach has escaped me. On my way home from a rather urban photo shoot in Quincy, Massachusetts, I had a strong urge to shoot at least one good landscape.
End of Summer In Franconia Notch

"The Basin" in Franconia Notch is formed by the headwaters of the Pemigiwasett River. This is a multiple exposure, each frame at a little more than one second.© Paul Mozell 2009
This weekend I returned to some favorite photographic and hiking haunts in Franconia Notch and found familiar themes and a few surprises, including earlier fall colors and a rugged volunteer trail crew. Continue reading
Jennifer and Shawn
Summer Woods
© Paul Mozell 2009

Tall Trees in Breakheart
Although it’s a mere 12 miles from Boston, the forest protected by Breakheart Reservation is lush and resplendent in late summer green.
The Photographer Loves Trees
© Paul Mozell 2009
As a certified tree hugger I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve been photographing trees since I first held a camera. I think it was the free-form sculpture of the 1960’s and 70’s that I saw at New York City’s museums and galleries that taught me to admire trees for their shape and form. On this sultry, hot, nearly unbearable day in Massachusetts, when a walk of about two miles in the The Appleton Farms Grass Rides (Ipswich, MA) was the most I could muster, I made just one photograph.
With bright sun, strong shadows, and burn-out highlights on the oily leaves of the Continue reading
YMCA Ropes Course
Revealing The Covered Bridge: Pulling out the details of light and shadow
© Paul Mozell 2009
Why do we love covered bridges? Perhaps for the same reasons we love watching the ocean or a crackling fireplace. I’ve been over the Albany Covered Bridge which crosses the Swift River, slicing through the White Mountain National Forest, a hundred times. On this day, accompanied by my 7 year old assistant Molly Mozell, I took a few moments to plant my tripod on the ancient wooden timbers of this landmark, and took about 5 bracketed exposures of the interior of the span.
Mountain Streams: Another View
Copyright Paul Mozell 2009
As a young child I loved playing beside the brooks and rivers where our family camped and hiked in the forests of New York and Jersey. When I discovered Eliot Porter and Ansel Adams as a teenager, those streams became one of my favorite subjects, and they remain so to this day. Continue reading
Tri The Lake
A Gray Afternoon at Rockport, Massachusetts
© Paul Mozell – article and photographs – all rights reserved
Even in a year when the New England spring has been unusually cool and gray, the coastal town of Rockport beckons my camera.
From July through September, downtown Rockport is usually packed with tourists who fill the art galleries and the ice cream shops on Bearskin Neck. Continue reading