BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – A Boston-themed date. I find myself in Boston taking a walk at sunrise with my little Ricoh GRD IV. Not an ideal camera for sunrises but there is a small voice in my head that urges me to violate the “horses for courses” rule. Here’s Boston Harbor:
Boston Harbor
On this day last year: wing of the Boston Shuttle. I was . . . on my way to Boston.
November 16, 2010
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – I managed to get myself to Boston for a day of meetings, despite being still slightly under the weather. I managed to find an hour to walk around the World Trade Center. Taken with my Panasonic GH2 and a 14mm pancake lens.
The Big Dig gains some native roses
Boston Coach
On this day one year ago: view from Centolire.
East 86th Street
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – I managed a quick walk in the rain in downtown Boston before being sucked into daylong meetings. I captured this in the small park across from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It’s an Allium Giganteum, an ornamental onion. I recognized it because we have a lot of them in Warren – because of the savage winters the palette for perennial gardens is fairly limited.
Allium Giganteum
On this day one year ago: Lipstick Building.
Lipstick building
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – I had meetings in Boston on this bright, clear early spring day. Again not much time. This is a conventional image taken with my GH2. I don’t have a very wide lens for it so this is stitched from three frames.
Beantown
On this day one year ago: Pacing at Citicorp Center. Not a very popular image but on reflection I rather like its claustrophobic feeling.
Citicorp Center
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – A parking area recessed into a building, for some reason painted black. Leica M9 and 35mm Summilux II lens.
World Trade Center Boston
On this day last year: Boston again.
Boston
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – My usual monthly business trip to Boston was really bleak. Boston was cold an alternated between snow and freezing rain. This pretty much captures the mood. Leica M9 and 90mm Elmarit lens.
Blizzard Boston
On this day last year: Maria and Luiz Scwarcz at Fatty Crab.
Fatty Crab
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – Boston is not Barcelona. There is plenty of public art in Boston, but the quality overall is just ok. Here’s a part of a sculpture – the tail of what looks likes the Loch Ness monster that runs down the middle of the stairway that I’m standing on.
Nessie
Leica M9 and 28mm Summcron lens.
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – A break between meetings in my monthly trip to Boston. This image picks up a theme that I worked on in Ecuador.
Bus Station, Boston
Leica M9 and 28mm Summicron lens – two images stitched in Photoshop.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – Up early to prepare for meetings, I made this panorama of sunrise over Boston harbor. I’ve written elsewhere that I don’t have much use for photographs of sunrises and sunsets, They do, after all, happen every day: its unlikely that I or anyone else is going to create great or unusual work by pointing a camera east in the early morning. I doubt that any artist since Joseph Mallord William Turner has made much of a contribution to our understanding or appreciation of sunrises and sunsets. I’ve pasted a copy of Turner’s Sunrise with Sea Monsters below.
One also has to consider the burden at this time of year of getting up very early to photograph a sunrise: sunrise today in Boston was at 5:06. That’s actually why I’ve posted a sunrise – I had a very busy day in Boston so I got up early to capture my image for the day. The first frame of this image was time stamped by the camera as 10:00:50 because I set the clock in all of my cameras to UTC so I don’t have to worry about whether they are on correct local time when I travel.
Sunrise Boston Harbor
Leica M9 plus 35mm Summicron Asph.
Turner Sunrise with Sea Monsters
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – I made my monthly trip to Boston. Here’s a facade of a building that proudly announces its address as 289 Devonshire Street.
Link to Google map
289 Devonshire Street, Boston
Leica M9 with 35mm Summicron Asph. Three frames stitched.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - Snow and sleet in Boston on January 19, the day of the special Senate election.
Boston
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – Up before dawn to catch a sunrise from the World Trade Center Pier in Boston. Ironically this old, Calvinist city seems to be speaking to me in color.
Boston
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – Another day with the M9 and 35mm Summicron. I took the shuttle to Boston in the early morning and managed a walk around for an hour or two before a day of meetings. Here’s what Wikipedia says about Dorchester Street and the Dorchester Street Bridge:
The Boston South Bridge over Fort Point Channel, on the site of today’s West Fourth Street Bridge, opened on October 1, 1805 as the first bridge connecting downtown to South Boston. Until it was sold to the city of Boston on April 19, 1832, it was a toll bridge. The Dorchester Turnpike Corporation (sometimes called the South Boston Turnpike) was created by the state legislature on March 4, 1805, to build a turnpike from the east end of the Boston South Bridge (Nook Point) to Milton Bridge over the Neponset River, on the other side of which the Blue Hill Turnpike later continued. Construction cost more than expected, and thus high tolls were charged, so many travelers took the old longer route through Roxbury. Despite that, the Dorchester Turnpike was one of the most profitable turnpikes, with earnings steadily climbing to a peak in 1838. When the parallel Old Colony Railroad opened in 1844, earnings quickly fell. The North Free Bridge, on the site of today’s Dorchester Avenue Bridge, opened in 1826, providing a more direct route form the north end of the turnpike to Dewey Square downtown.[1] On April 22, 1854, the turnpike became a free public road, named Dorchester Avenue. The name was changed to Federal Street in 1856, as it provided a continuation of that street from downtown Boston (via the North Free Bridge), but it became Dorchester Avenue again in 1870.”
Summer Street Boston
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