Stepping into 2023 on a clear and sunny New Year’s Day. Walking in #GloucesterMA

Picnics, promenade, and polar plunge- there were fresh starts everywhere we turned.

Photos: Gloucester, Ma. New Year’s Day, 2023. Coffin’s Beach, Long Beach, Good Harbor Beach, Niles Beach, Stacy Boulevard, and Wingaersheek Beach.

First winter snow a dusting on the coast and rainbow spray in the surf #GloucesterMA

Dec. 12, 2022

Good Harbor Beach, marsh estuary, Back Shore, Long Beach


Saw some autumn. It was awesome. Early Fall Foliage In Gloucester and Rockport 2022

Moonrise above Good Harbor Beach Inn

Saw Some Autumn. It Was Awesome 2022 photo series description: Early fall Oct. 2022. Leaves are changing color in Gloucester and Rockport. Fall and Halloween scenes. See 2021 here.

Summer’s simple pleasures: beach towels on railings, sand rinse foot baths on Long Beach, paper lanterns, beach games, and cloud rolls

Description- Late summer photos. Series around town. Gloucester and Rockport. Good Harbor Beach and Long Beach. Aug-September 2022. Simple pleasures of summer: beach towels on railings hung out to dry; sand rinse foot baths at Long Beach cottages; beach games; paper lanterns; clouds

Beach towels on the railings hung out to dry

Sand rinse foot bath tubs on Long Beach cottages

Beach games – volleyball, beach baseball

Cloud roll

Paper Lanterns

downtown tree in Dock Square and for the playhouse too

beauty of fog unfolding – a Magic Realism morning on good Harbor Beach, Long Beach, Twin Lights

fleeting and atmospheric low tide vistas photos: c. ryan, 7/17/2022

Good Harbor Beach | Long Beach

Thinking about 19th and 20th century painters and printmakers including Ben Shahn, Laura Knight, Peter Hurd, George Tooker, Caspar David Friedrich, Eric Ravilious, Hopper, Morandi, others