Monthly Archives: January 2024

see-through house

I have a weird thing* about being able to see all the way through a building. Where I usually shoot – the Texas High Plains – that’s not uncommon, as there are lots of left-behind farmhouses and wide expanses of horizon to see through the broken windows.

Seeing all the way through this building in Beacon Hill felt familiar. But it also felt disconcerting.

Beacon Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023

*I am sure you realize that I have way more than one weird thing. It’s just that only one of them was relevant at the current time.

lamp/light

This? Oh just a fascinating shadow that I saw on the corner of Pickney and W. Cedar Streets. I’m going to pretend that I just knew the name of the intersection off the top of my head, but if you think it actually took me a few minutes just now on Google street view to figure it out, you would not be wrong.

Beacon Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023

shutter

The other day, someone asked me if having an architectural degree influenced my photography. (Because that degree hasn’t exactly influenced my bank account in any noticeable degree.) Anyway, I guess it did, because otherwise I would have passed right by this shutter without making a photo. You know, the way a normal person would have.

But I bet my architecture professors are real proud.

Beacon Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023

seeing double

I really like how the best things you see when you’re walking around are things you probably would have never even thought about until you saw them. This little collection of stuff on the sidewalk in Beacon Hill was quite interesting, even if the people giving me the side-eye while I made somewhere between 5 and 42 photographs didn’t think so. I know I’m right and I know they’re…not.

Beacon Hill
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023

sky men

Halloween meant it was time to start putting up Christmas lights on the trees in the Common. It also meant that I got to photograph the workers, because, well, you know.

Boston Common
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023