Digital Camera Offers: New England Photography Guild

This week my article for the New England Photography Guild celebrated Keene, New Hampshire's beautiful Ashuelot River Park. The park is a lovely 157 acre natural oasis in the center of Keene featuring wonderful open spaces and lovingly maintained gardens. Radiating from the main garden are trails which wind along the Ashuelot River and into its wildlife rich wet lands. For more detail check out my article on the New England Photography Guild Blog.

As before, I am using my personal blog this week as an album of additional pictures of the park. Check them out and come visit in any season. It is easily accessible. Heading west from Keene's Central Square along West Street it is across from the Colony Mill.

Park Gardens and open spaces are home to strolling, Picnics and even Yoga Classes. The gardens are maintained by the city and a dedicated group of volunteers.

Yoga on the Green

Mill Dam

The Jonathan Daniels trail heads north from the gardens following the Ashuelot River .

The trail honors Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a native of Keene who, at the age of 26, was, killed for his work in the American civil rights movement. The trail runs close to the river for a the round trip distance of 1.75 miles.

Ashuelot River

Ashuelot Mist

Backwater along the Ashuelot and Daniels Trail

Check more about Ashuelot River park, a great place to relax and recharge in the heart of Keene

Ashuelot Park New England Photography Guild Blog

This week it is my turn to post and article on the New England Photography Guild's Blog. Given the high quality of work which is routine from my fellow members, it is always a bit intimidating to offer something of mine for publication. I can't get away with my usual whining about the weather or about all the deadlines I am missing. I also have to deal with the strict rules of the NEPG Blog. They actually check spelling and grammar! There is also a limit on the number of images I can include, so, as has become my habit, I will use this week's personal blog as a supplemental photo album for main article.

For my NEPG article I chose to talk about "My Farms", the three local farms that I have adopted as sources of photographic and personal inspiration. The real purpose of the article is to encourage you to find your own local farms. Getting to know and be known by local farmers can open endless photographic opportunities and allow a deeper appreciation of the work these folks do to preserve a way of life that is at the base of what it means to be a New Englander.

So check out my article on the New England Photography Blog, enjoy the many moods of MY farms and go out and get your own.