On this day in 1848, 300,000 people from all over New England gathered on Boston Common. They came to celebrate the completion of the city’s first municipal water system. With the constructio… | Continue reading
Our democracy is in a terrible state. This is a photograph of it. | Continue reading
We had to go out early this morning, just as the city was starting its daily bustle. Crossing the common, as we passed the merry-go-round, the dog walkers were out in force and Back Bay’s sun… | Continue reading
A real plus about the Fuji x100v is that it’s OK to use it in the rain. The lens gets water blurry of course but, the quality of the sensor is so good that even with that, the image comes out… | Continue reading
It may be COVID preventing us from our usual personal get-togethers or maybe it’s just the ever increasing dominance of social media and other digital distractions but, whatever is causing us… | Continue reading
I’m not sure I can adequately explain my long absence from this site. Probably it was an infatuation with Instagram that triggered it and then my usual laziness took over. Instagram is more a… | Continue reading
Sometimes a couple, if they are really blessed, become not two but one. | Continue reading
Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow.I am the diamond glint on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain.I am the gentle autumn rain. When… | Continue reading
Will wonders ever cease! When I came across these two women happily entering something in their notebooks, it struck me as unusual scene because of the dominance of digital media in our lives. My w… | Continue reading
It’s heat haze! As I write this it’s 98 degrees outside and feels like 101! Couple that with the sheltering in place that we’re doing and it’s an exquisite form of physical … | Continue reading
#1 – Talk to yourself. There are times you need expert advice. #2 – “In Style” are the clothes that still fit.#3 – You don’t need anger management. You need people to stop p… | Continue reading
What’s next, used cars? I going to hide. This may be catching. | Continue reading
This photograph is of the Arlington Street Church’s tower framed by some trees growing just inside Boston’s Public Garden. As images go it’s a perfectly nice juxtaposition of the … | Continue reading
This rather poignant, hopeful sign sits on a Washington Street on the edge of Downtown Crossing. On it flashes various messages relating to the virus. My wife was particularly drawn to this one. Sh… | Continue reading
We had gone to Roche Brothers in Downtown Crossing for some early morning grocery shopping. Not having had breakfast, we bought a snack in their fast food area and sat down outside to eat it, when … | Continue reading
Photographers, especially those of us who roam the streets, are prone to thinking that what they photograph is an honest glimpse of reality. It isn’t. What we shoot is only one person’s reality — o… | Continue reading
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“Have you ever had the feeling that there wasn’t a soul left on the planet that remembered your name or face or the sound of your laugh?” From “House of Coates” A boo… | Continue reading
Since we live near the Massachusetts State House, we often hear noisy demonstrations in favor or against one thing or another. Today there was a group of anti-vaccination people lobbying for their … | Continue reading
Here in the U.S., patience seems to be in pretty short supply these days. We’ve got a president who wants COVID-19 to disappear quickly so he announces that he wants less testing in order to … | Continue reading
I don’t normally photograph in Boston’s Chinatown mainly because it’s a fair hike from where we live. Today however, my wife suggested we go there and wow was the walk fun! The ne… | Continue reading
The fun fact about this photograph is that it was not taken in some rural or suburban location. I took it in the second block of Newbury Street, Boston’s premium “gold coast” shop… | Continue reading
It is a Hybrid Tea Rose and many millions of plants have been sold since it burst onto the world stage in 1945. It was developed by the French rose breeder, Francis Meilland, between 1935 and 1939 … | Continue reading
In the soft gloom of current selves there still shines a light. | Continue reading
I saw him in the convenience store as I was buying our papers. I annoyed him as I passed by leaving. | Continue reading
The stock market’s down almost 1900 points. We’re still “sheltering in place”. Translation: Stuck in here. AND….It’s raining cats and dogs. Come to think of it b… | Continue reading
This was one of those lucky captures that happen only occasionally. At first glance it might seem that I was holding my camera at ground level to achieve this angle of view. That wasn’t the c… | Continue reading
My wife and I live in the Beacon Hill section of Boston. Real estate is expensive here thus you might think that it’s probably unlikely that the social unrest that’s been sweeping the g… | Continue reading
Call me a cautious old guy, but as far as I’m concerned, the pandemic is most certainly not in our rearview mirror yet. Yes, stores are starting to open and outside dining is permitted and mo… | Continue reading
I took this in a public park, about 200 yards from where we live in Boston. It speaks to the political tension of our times. There was a big protest scheduled for later in the afternoon and these y… | Continue reading
Living in a crowded city is a strange combination of crowded intimacy and lonely reserve. As an example, there is very small, below street level doorway garden less than a block from us that always… | Continue reading
Age? Gender? Race? Intelligence? Wealth? Or perhaps none of the above. And if it’s “none of the above”, what then? | Continue reading
After the last few days of widespread, sometimes violent, protests about the George Floyd killing and the economic devastation brought on by Covid-19, I tried to find a couple of recent photographs… | Continue reading
We live in Boston. I used to think it was a pretty intelligent, enlightened place. No more. Since the virus hit and George Floyd was murdered, this place is going nuts. | Continue reading
I have no idea what he meant by that. He was struggling with his words making less and less sense. These kind of photographs bother me but I’m drawn to them. Human tragedy is hard to ignore. | Continue reading
It seems like centuries have passed since anybody in Washington has made an intelligent decision. I’m totally fed up with the current “gotcha” style of politics. There is a huge g… | Continue reading
I have no idea who he is. I think it might have been taken somewhere around the main branch of the Boston Public Library because of the marble and iron background. It doesn’t matter. His faci… | Continue reading
I rarely, very rarely, do any still life photography. Today is a rare exception. My wife has a distinctive collection of antique stone fruits in an old woven wire bowl. Here is a low light, closeup… | Continue reading
Early today this old man was waiting for the light at the intersection of Beacon and Joy streets in Boston. (He has a cane in his right hand which you can’t see.) When the light changed in hi… | Continue reading
This photograph is of a runner who has briefly paused her workout to stretch. She’s looking back the way she came as if someone or something is following her. I find the image to be an easy i… | Continue reading
I try to meditate for 20 minutes each morning before breakfast. In these endless days of sheltering in place, it helps but, not as much as I’m sure it could. Spoiler alert…I’m not… | Continue reading
I’m getting tired of posting doom and gloom monochrome images telling of the difficult times we’re going through, sooo here’s a change of pace. Yes, we are still under a shelter a… | Continue reading
The silence between the bumps and burbles of our “monkey” mind’s endless river of thoughts contains the universe. We sometimes (but very rarely) feel its presence during meditatio… | Continue reading