These are some children having fun in Rings Fountain, part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, which, as part of the Big Dig project, replaced a truly hideous elevated freeway that sliced through the heart of Boston.

This is part of the Greenway know as the Great Room, which has at its core a "lighted, choreographed fountain shooting 30 to 40 feet in the air designed by Wet Design. The 64 nozzles are set in three circles of rose-colored stone inlaid at surface level. Since each nozzle works independently, there are innumerable design configurations possible with the jets of spray. The fountain is air powered vs. water-pressure powered, so the result is a light spray." More info available here in this PDF.

Taken as part of the one-year anniversary photowalk of the Boston, Massachusetts, Flickr group. (Thanks to Greg for organizing this!)

I really love the details brought out by the light reflected in the water. Kind of a cool effect, I think.

Taken on the commuter rail platform at the MBTA’s Porter Square station in Cambridge, MA.

This was at the end of an afternoon-long photowalk wandering around Cambridge, near MIT and the Charles River, on which I was feeling a bit down on myself about my photography, but I just kept on shooting, even when I felt like sticking the camera in my bag, and I eventually came out of it. Nothing like actually making some photographs to bring you out of a creative funk.

Hadn’t pulled out my 50mm f1.4 lens for awhile, and I’d forgotten how much I like the way it forces you to zoom with your feet and get in there close.

One thing I really liked about this shot was the contrast between the colorful, sharp words on the sign with the almost ghostly figures on the platform — something that I actually set out to achieve with the shot from the start (rather than just discovering that it had happened randomly only after I had gotten all the photos uploaded to my Mac.)

A shot of a random commuter waiting for an an MBTA Red Line train taken on the platform at Alewife Station in Cambridge, MA, with my iPhone camera. There’s something about this shot that I find appealing, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe the sort of haunting feeling of isolation it evokes? Not sure what it is, but it pleases me.

If you’re interested in seeing some other shots I’ve experimented with using my iPhone camera, see a small collection of my photos on The Best Camera site, which posts only photos taken with an iPhone.

An MBTA Red Line train crosses the Longfellow Bridge from Cambridge into Boston on a gray day.

Thought I’d try out Chase Jarvis’s Best Camera app on my iPhone and put it through its paces now that the app can post directly to Flickr. I think he’s right: the best camera is the one you have with you.

This shot of an MBTA Red Line train was taken on the inbound platform at the Porter Square T-Station in Cambridge, MA. I liked especially how the "Porter" sign reflected off the window of the moving train — not planned that way, but a happy coincidence.

This is a shot of some people milling about in the warm steam rising up from a grating behind the ice skating rink on Boston Common. I liked the sort of eerie, ghostly feel the scene had and tried to capture that feeling with my camera.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

I liked the lines and curves in this shot, together with the contrast between the motion of the train and the stasis of the two women standing and waiting for it.

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 the "rule of thirds." To me, "rules" like this exist more as handy guidelines to get me going than hard-and-fast rules.

Rockport, Massachusetts

A shot of some fountain lights in the lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Chicago.

I liked the rough symmetry and reflective qualities of the both the water and the stone.