Photo of the Week: A 2023 Favorites Gallery

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This week we offer a gallery of 16 of our favorite Photo of the Week photos from 2023. We encourage you to browse beyond this gallery to review all of the contributions that we received during the year – there’s some outstanding stuff there. Just use the search function in the upper right of the page and type in Photo Of The Week. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all of the photographers who shared their work with the Indy this year and encourage them to keep it coming in 2024. The photos that follow are presented in the chronological order that they appeared in the Indy in 2023.

Also, check out Stephen Braun’s Almanac which often offers great nature photos.

Look here for our 2022 favorites gallery and here for our 2021 favorites gallery.

Our feature, Photo of the Week, presents each week, a new picture by a local photographer. We invite local photographers to share their photographs here. Please include a description/caption and an indication of who is to be credited.

*Sumner Mountain Road in Shutesbury heading toward Kettle Hill Road in Amherst! The photo was taken on January 23, 2023, the morning after a snow storm! Photo: Sara Barber-Just*

*Frozen feathered beauties #4. Photo: Annique Boomsma*

*Stream ice never ceases to amaze: 2023 #1 Photo John Root*

*Northern lights viewed from Lake Wyola. Photo: Susan Panlilio*

*Happy beaver enjoying his fresh dinner. Norwottuck Rail Trail. Photo: Darya Zelentsova*

*Willow Watching #1. Photo: Vira Douangmany Cage*

*Sunrise: UMass campus north of Orchard Hill Drive. Photo: Rodger Mattlage*

Solar Sheep. These are the sheep from Finicky Farm (https://finicky.farm/) in Northfield who rent out their sheep to help maintain solar fields. This is them in the NexHamp solar field on the Bruce and Galina Patterson property in North Amherst. Photo: Robin Jaffin

*Bobcat, Wentworth Farm, Amherst. Photo: Darya Zelentsova*

*Nasturtium bloom. Photo: Annique Boomsma*

*Porch at the Summit House at Skinner Mountain State Park. Photo: Marita Banda*

*From my classroom window. Photo: Dave Madeloni*

*Beaver moon setting over barn. Photo: Robin Jaffin*
“The November full moon is known as the Beaver Moon. This was the time to set traps before the swamps froze to ensure a good supply of furs for the winter. A different interpretation is that this is the time beavers would be most active in the preparation for winter.” Merriam Webster

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