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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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