Greenway Fountain & Custom House Tower at Night – Boston
This is the final photo in a series of black & white shots I took of the Boston Financial District skyline as I was wandering around the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway one night last summer. This is such a great location from which to make images: lots of fantastic skyline light, fountains galore, and also [...]
Custom House Tower at Night – Boston
Another in a series of black and white explorations of cityscapes at night, this one taken near one of the fountains on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston. Hard to believe that it was not that long ago that this shot would not even have been possible, as there was the double-decker freeway of [...]
West 35th Street at Night, New York City
This shot was an attempt to capture the mood of a New York City Street at night. Of course, this began as a color photo, but as I started playing around with various levels of processing, I quickly realized that the situation almost demanded that it be processed as black and white. The actual black [...]
Reflecting Pool – Christian Science Plaza, Boston
It was just starting to rain, and I had just gotten my umbrella out. At first I thought that the raindrops hitting the pool would ruin the reflective qualities, but in the end I liked how they added a bit of variety to the shot. Another up side to the rain was that it kept [...]
Autumn Skyline – Boston Back Bay Panorama
Taken from the Longfellow Bridge in that wonderful, warm late afternoon sunlight just before dusk, this photo shows the banks of the Charles River in Boston at pretty much the peak time of the autumnal colors here in New England. The green skyscraper on the right-hand side of the photo is the John Hancock Tower. [...]
Red Line Train on the Longfellow Bridge at Sunset
A Red Line MBTA train reflects the sunset as it crosses the Longfellow Bridge from Boston into Cambridge. This was merged together as a panorama in Photoshop from 5 different overlapping portrait exposures. I’m completely astounded at the fantastic job Photoshop does of blending together the different shots. I was inspired to do the panorama [...]
Blue Dawn, Charles River & Western Avenue Bridge at Sunrise
Pulled myself out of bed way before dawn today and drove into Cambridge for the “Head of the Charles” rowing regatta. This is one of the first shots I got just before daybreak of the Charles River and the Western Avenue Bridge. I was standing on the Weeks Footbridge that crosses the Charles near Harvard [...]
Autumn Swim at Walden Pond
This is another photo from my stroll earlier this week around Walden Pond in Concord, MA. Besides being a serene and peaceful place all year round for hikers, Walden is tremendously popular among local swimmers (and fisherman as well) because of its calm, relatively warm waters and because only non-motorized watercraft are allowed. I was [...]
Autumn Sunset at Walden Pond
If the phrase “Walden Pond” sounds familiar: yes, this is the same Walden Pond made famous in the book Walden, or, Life in the Woods by Concord’s own Henry David Thoreau. I’m fortunate in that I live just a few miles down the road from Walden Pond in Concord, MA, so I bike by there [...]
Foggy Boston Back Bay Skyline at Dusk
Here’s a shot of the skyline of Boston’s Back Bay area taken from the Longfellow Bridge. It was just starting to really rain out, but the light was very interesting, how the orangeish-pink glow of the city bounce off the low-hanging clouds as the fog descended on the skyscrapers. I don’t know why, but I [...]
Ghost Train on the Longfellow Bridge
This was made on an evening that was supposed to be a photowalk in Boston for the Boston Photo Peeps group on Meetup.com, but the meetup was canceled at the last minute because of adverse weather, which was quite disappointing to me. (How often does the forecast say 100% chance of rain before it has [...]
Back Harbor Reflections
Earlier in the summer, I took a long bike ride starting in Beverly, Massachusetts, up through Gloucester, around Cape Ann and then back through Essex (where I had a bowl of fabulous clam chowder at one of the roadside clam shacks), and then on to Ipswich, where I met up with Christina and Alex at [...]
Summer’s Day on Cape Cod
OK. I was up before dawn this morning, photographing the sunrise, and it was 10 degrees Fahrenheit. So what did I do when I got home? Started processing photos of Cape Cod from last summer. Makes sense, I suppose. This is one of those photos. Had a lot of fun with this one, deliberately breaking [...]
Runner Crossing Bridge at Sunset
I took this shot on the banks of the Charles River on the Boston side while heading toward the Charles River Esplanade for some night shots. The sun was just heading for the horizon, and the bridge made a nice silhouette with all that brightness behind it. It just so happened that a runner was [...]
Boston Skyline in the Blue Hour
This a shot of the Boston skyline taken from one of the best locations for skyline photography in Boston: the Boston Harborwalk near Moakley Courthouse. I just love the changing light during the blue hour, as the sky deepens in its shades of blue and the golden lights of the city begin to appear. For [...]
Reflecting Pool at Dusk
This is another in a series of photos taken in Boston at the Christian Science Plaza. I was pretty lucky this particular evening, as it was raining a bit, which gave me the added benefit of scaring off all the tourists who are normally wandering around the place in the evening AND coating the pavement [...]
The First Church of Christ, Scientist at Night, Boston
This is a panoramic, wide angle shot of Boston’s Christian Science Church at night. I made this photo by stitching together two wide angle shots in Photoshop, blending them together, and then processing as black & white in Adobe Lightroom. Had a lot of trouble initially getting the exposure the way I wanted it across [...]
Approaching Storm
This is a shot I got while wandering around the harbor on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, when we were on vacation there last week. A storm front was moving in fast, and I was afraid that we were going to get rained on, but as it turns out, the clouds blew over and the [...]
Rowes Wharf and Custom House Tower at Dusk, Boston
This is a shot of the Boston Financial District skyline taken on the Boston Harborwalk near Moakley Courthouse. The clock tower in the center-right of the composition is the Custom House Tower. The tower has been through various iterations, but now houses a Marriott hotel. I love taking photos of the city during the “blue [...]
Boston Financial District Skyline at Night
Here’s a black and white shot of the Boston Financial District skyline under night skies taken from the Boston Harborwalk next to the Moakley Courthouse. It was a blustery evening with a storm front moving in, and I was afraid I would get rained on, but I managed to just get this shot in under [...]
Back Bay Skyline at Night, Boston
This is a shot of the Boston Back Bay skyline at night from the west side of the reflecting pool at Christian Science Plaza in Boston. The tall building in the center is the Prudential Tower. The round-ish building on the right-center is 111 Huntington Avenue, AKA “The R2D2 Building,” which is part of the [...]
Dusk at Splash Fountain, Boston
This is an evening shot of Splash Fountain at Christian Science Plaza in Boston. This fountain design allows 180 water jets to shoot directly out of the ground and is (obviously) illuminated at night. The plaza itself was designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei.
Custom House Tower & Greenway Fountain, Boston
Taken as part of the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk on July 18th, this is a panoramic view of the Custom House Tower looking across a cool circular fountain located on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in the Financial District in Boston. Of course, one of the Big Dig‘s freeway tunnels is right below all of [...]
