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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
airport man
I can’t imagine ever being bored as long as I’ve got a camera handy.
And as long as I’ve got a camera I’m set when I spot a scene like this…and I sure am glad that gentleman went with the yellow shoes!
Boston Logan International Airport
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023
fall at the falls
January 1, 2009: that was a fateful day. But like many fateful days, I didn’t recognize it as such for quite a long time after.
January 1, 2009, was the day I decided to start a photo-a-day blog. I thought I try to do it for one year and see how it went. It was a stunning* success: at the end of that first year, I did have a total of five (5!) followers, placing me well into the single digits. For some reason, that dismal record didn’t deter me. I thought I’d give it another year, and then one more, and anyway, this year starts my 15th year of posting a photo every day.
Posting all those photos (~5,000 in total) turned me into a photographer. But the main thing that happened – and it’s one I never saw coming – is that I made friends this way. Good friends; some of my favorite friends are other photographers. It’s been an amazing journey, with a lot of good things happening along the way. So thanks to all my photographer friends, the ones I know and the ones I haven’t met yet. Y’all have helped make what was, frankly, a snap decision to post photos into a passion that means more to me than I can even say.
And I hope I’m still doing this in 15 more years….
Dochart Falls – near Killin, Scotland
11.18.2023
*Depending on how sarcastic you want to be with the word “stunning.”
