This park is located partly in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Besides the impressive Campbell Falls themselves, I find the rock formations—and the trees that manage to grow on them—to be quite impressive.
Rock Wall Triptych
I arranged these three images as a triptych to accentuate the patterns and colors of this rock wall in Bartholomew’s Cobble, a designated National Natural Landmark in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Another Look at Innisfree Garden
The design of Innisfree Garden was influenced by Asian art, including Chinese gardens. I can imagine this tree perched on a rock ledge as an ink drawing on a hanging scroll.
Four Intimate Landscape Photographs in Juried Show
I am fortunate to have four of my intimate black and white landscapes chosen in a juried exhibition art at the Meeting House Gallery in New Marlborough, Massachusetts from June 23 - July 22.
“Each of Backer’s black and white digital photos captures a scene of the natural world, cut into vivid shapes where rigid lines of rock, sand and wood collide and intersect....One photo titled Driftwood at Bandon Beach, taken in Oregon, features a large piece of driftwood set against a sheer rock face. Without color to provide definition for the eye, the driftwood appears almost alien, the husk of some otherworldly creature washed ashore on a beach of some distant planet.”
