Another Busy Week
This entry was posted on 10/21/2006 10:39 AM and is filed under Conservation, Photo Trips, EcoPhotography, RSS 2.0.
A flock of common grackles fills the sky in this view of the Connecticut River from
Mount Holyoke in Hadley, MA.
This busy sky reflects the busyness in my brain this week. I got home Sunday night after a week on the road in New Hampshire and Vermont, only to turn around and shoot all day on Monday in Essex County, Massachusetts. I spent Tuesday and Wednesday in the office, moving images from my "road" hard drives to our office hard drives and working frantically getting images sent out to clients. Then it was back on the road on Thursday, this time to the Pioneer Valley in central Massachusetts, where the Connecticut River bisects the state.
Salt Marsh and hay field, Essex, Massachusetts
On Monday, I finished up a three season project for the Essex County Greenbelt Association. Essex County is the county north of Boston that includes Cape Ann, Newburyport, etc. It has some beautiful tidal rivers, beaches, marshlands, and rocky uplands. Being close to Boston, it is also ripe for development, and the Greenbelt Association is working overtime to protect the most ecologically and scenically important places. Land is not a cheap commodity in this part of the state, as Essex County was recently named the most overpriced place in America by Forbes Magazine. This makes conservation an expensive proposition, so if you live in the area and have a few bucks to spare, check out the ECGA website, www.ecga.org, and get out your checkbook..
Sanderson Brook, Chester, Massachusetts
A Nor'Easter blew through the region yesterday, but I managed a few hours of good shooting in the morning before the heavy rain and big winds shut me down. The light mist and relatively calm winds before the storm allowed me to make a bunch of shots "in the woods." Sanderson Brook (above) is a tributary of the Westfield River (a federally recognized Wild and Scenic River,) itself a tributary of the Connecticut.
The Connecticut River seperates the towns of Gill and Erving, Massachusetts.
This view is from the French King Bridge on MA Route 2.
Today, I'm planning to do shoot some farm and forest scenes as well as some dinosaur footprints!
Until next time...
-Jerry
