Windy Day at Plum Island

With gusts over 40 mph the challenge today was keeping my tripod from vibrating and blowing over. Read more

Landscape Photography Inspired by Hudson River Painters

Cornfield by the West Branch of the White River, Rochester, Vermont

© Paul Mozell 2008

When photography was in its infancy in the early 19th century, the art of landscape painting was approaching a new zenith. In its time, the work of the members of the “Hudson River School and later, the White Mountain School,  was growing in popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more

Three Concerned Women, Photographs by Susan Bank, Stella Johnson, and Rania Matar

This week I attended the opening of a joint show by Susan Bank, Stella Johnson, and Rania Matar at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. The exhibition of exclusively black & white prints, documents the lives of Cuban tobacco farmers; remote villages in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cameroon; and the women and children of the middle east, respectively. Read more

Equestrian Action in the Surf: Have Your Camera Ready

Rider in the surf

Rider in the surf © Paul Mozell

I make a few trips to the beaches of Massachusetts in the summer but often my best visits are during the fall, when the crowds are gone and the landscape opens up. Read more

Fall Leaves Are Down–Yet There’s Plenty of Color

© Paul Mozell 2009

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When the bright yellow and red leaves of New England’s maples, birch, beech and oak have fallen, there is still plenty of color to photograph. I especially enjoy the rust colors that emerge from the cattails, willow, and grasses. On a dry, clear afternoon in November, the light quickly warms as the sun drops toward the horizon. A few more wine colored shrubs in the foreground would have made this image even more powerful.

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Three Days of Shooting In October: Different

© Paul Mozell
In three consecutive days I shot architecture in Boston’s South End, a client’s family reunion, and took a hike with my daughter to one of our favorite nature venues. The contrast in photo assignments was invigorating and I felt very much “in the zone” with all my creative energies flowing

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