Ryland Bouchard

Somewhere between the mountains and valleys a small autumn flower bloomed.

A slug climbs small mountains at the peak of Mount Greylock (3,489 ft).

A look at constellations found in the coldest days of winter.

A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.

A study of the seashore in mid-coast Maine.

A short film which captures the golden morning light of autumn.

Somewhere between the mountains and valleys a small autumn flower bloomed.

A slug climbs small mountains at the peak of Mount Greylock (3,489 ft).

A look at constellations found in the coldest days of winter.

A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.

A study of the seashore in mid-coast Maine.

A short film which captures the golden morning light of autumn.

Mountain wildflowers in a dense fog.

A short film featuring a pebble beach and coastal salt marsh in Maine.

A short film featuring a coastal forest and the rocky coastline of downeast Maine.

The sun rises over the tide pools of coastal Maine.

Clouds forming and moving through the summer sky.

As a winter storm approaches the shallow water crystallizes, ice builds up along the edges of a stream, and the first snowflakes of the storm layer over the newly formed ice. The following morning a soft light approaches through the snow covered forest.

Spring ferns, wildflowers, and tree blossoms glow in the light of a golden sunset.

As the day comes to an end deer graze on a hillside, wild turkeys pass through a grassy field, and the full moon rises.

Smoke from wildfires fill the skies with an orange haze as spring wildflowers bloom.

A golden sunrise brings light to the foggy hills and meadows of late summer.

In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.

"The acid soil of New England, its wide stretches of hardwoods, its numerous sugar maples, its rolling or mountainous character, the sunshine of its autumn weather, all these contribute to the glory of this annual display. The birches of Maine the aspens of the White Mountains, the sugar Maples of Vermont, the long rainbow of the Connecticut River Valley cutting from top to bottom through New England, the Berkshires - mention these to anyone who has traveled widely through a New England fall and you will evoke instant memories of superlative beauty." -Edwin Way Teale, Autumn across America, 1956

Sunlight in a winter forest.

Morning dew in summer fields and meadows.

A short film shot on Super 8 which captures the last days of winter.

Fog surrounds the peak of a mountain as summer wildflowers bloom.

Wildlife in an early spring wetland.

"Life disappears or modifies its appearances so fast that everything takes on an aspect of illusion - a momentary fizzing and boiling with smoke rings, like pouring dissident chemicals into a retort. Here man was advancing, but in a few years his plaster and bricks would be disappearing once more into the insatiable maw of the clover." - Loren Eiseley, The Night Country (1997)

Wind blows through the snow covered hills after a winter snow storm.