• rop-PaulsPics2023,ph1
    The dragonfly sculpture at Franklin County Technical School is silhouetted against the evening sky on Sept. 15 in Montague.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph2
    People on the top levels of Poet’s Seat Tower in Greenfield watch the full harvest moon rise on Sept. 29. See the rest of Paul Franz’s top 10 photos of the year on Page B1.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph3
    Tom Ricardi of the Birds of Prey Rehabilitation Center in Conway with a peregrine falcon at Greenfield Community College on April 3.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph4
    Frontier Regional School’s Aiden Dredge lets a pass fly versus Franklin County Technical School in Turners Falls on Sept. 15.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph5
    Members of the Frontier Regional School boys soccer team go for a literal ice cream run after practice before returning to watch the Frontier girls soccer team from the hill at Herlihy Park in Whately.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph6
    Doug Wilkins called square dances backed up by the Falltown String Band at the Heath Fair on Aug. 18.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph7
    Children play in the bubbles trailing Pirate Man Dan’s ship at the Franklin County Fair in Greenfield on Sept. 8.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph8
    A skiier participates in an MIIA race at Berkshire East Mountain Resort in Charlemont on March 1.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph9
    Officials on July 21 take stock of the damage to roads following heavy rains that caused flooding on Greenfield Road in Deerfield.
  • rop-PaulsPics2023,ph10
    Heath resident Gwyn Clark drives an old Farmall tractor in the antique tractor parade at the Heath Fair on Aug. 18.