Boston
Two weeks ago I ended up going to Boston for a day. I spent my day in three places—the Boston Public Library, the Massachusetts State House, and the Boston Common.
In this post, I will share my photos of anything that did not fit into the other two posts—the post with the Boston Public Library photos and the post with the Massachusetts State House. (All three posts share the same gallery.)
This is a view of the eastern end of Boston Common. There was a window at the State House that offered a good view, so I snapped it.
The weather was quite nice—low 20°C, sunny, light breeze—and so the Common was full of people enjoying the day. Both passively:
and actively:
Industry by Adio diBiccari:
Heading back toward Copley Square and the Boston Public Library, we encounter the John Hancock tower:
At this point, it was time to start heading back to Harvard where I left my car. I noticed an interesting ad at the bus stop right by the library. It had three panels filled with water and bubbles. I realize it isn’t the sharpest photo.
When I got off the red line at Harvard, I tried some long exposures of the trains. It turns out that unless the trains are packed, they keep their doors open for only about 10 seconds. In this 13 second exposure, you can see that the door was closed for a part of it.
An 8 second exposure worked quite well. (Unfortunately, I like the first composition better.)
So, this concludes the three post series about my one day excursion to Boston. I certainly learned a couple of things about photography in the 401 shots I took. First of all, tripods are amazingly useful indoors. Second, anyone can take a shot of a subject—it takes the “know what you’re doing” to consistently get an image that is not just good but better than average. Third, I need to read up on architecture photography before my next excursion so I know what I am doing. :)