Always interesting, Locks are a great subject. I think this will be a regular feature of my work and I’ll start hunting for interesting locks. These three are all Master Locks, but that’s just how it worked out. All shot with the Olympus E-M1 and my trusty 12-40/2.8

Reflections at night from a couple of signs and car taillights. This one in Boston, but these photos are not hard to find, but you have to be there at the right time of night were there are interesting reflections, wait until during or after the rain, and position yourself appropriately. I love it.

These two images represent different views of the same window in the Back-Bay section of Boston. Obviously it was painted black, but there was nice orange rust poking through. I should probably go back in my archives and see if there is another photo to provide a third All taken with the Olympus E-M1 Mk II and the 12-40/2.8

You’ve got to love the iPhone. This photo was just a grab when I was out in the rain in Boston. The exposure for such a tricky scene was just handled. There used to be another building on the left, but Photoshop’s magic Generative Fill eliminated it. I love the subtle colors, the contrast of old and new architecture, the moody sky. I thought should it be BW, but I kind of like the yellow windows on the older building

Walking around the city of Boston in early December, fall is gone. Winter hasn’t arrived. Not mud season, not snow season. But on Commonwealth Avenue near the Boston Public Garden, the final fall leaves have just fallen. The trees give up their last vestiges of summer and go dormant, awaiting the warmth and longer days of Spring. On the floor of Comm Ave, people have walked all over the leaves. The rain has beat them down and flattened out the shapes. The frost had bleached out the colors. There is little left, but I thought that the patterns were nice.

I don’t profess to be a Street Photographer by any stretch of my imagination. I have no time and the sterile suburban community that I live in doesn’t afford decent street scenes. However……I am in NYC and Boston from time to time and I do love the scenes you get on the street. In a past life, I tried my hand at street photography with film cameras, usually wide angle….VERY wide like a 24mm, 21mm, or even a 15mm lens on a Leica. I liked the images, but never did a lot of it. I see some people I know

So I take photos and never know if I’ll like them or not. This shot of the back of an old bus or truck I took at my NJ Auto Graveyard photo shoot in November 2022. Unfortunately, I forgot to take the wider photo which would tell me what the whole text is, but the top line is something mysterious, but the bottom says SAEES, as far as I can tell. I guess it’s some abbreviation, but I may never know. Probably came from somewhere in Southern NJ. I love the colors, making this a lovely pseudo-abstract. Lots of layers

I was in Boston for my daughter’s wedding in early December and it rained copious amounts for one day and left nice puddles in the street. These are photos captured with the camera pretty much on the ground I used the Laowa 7.5mm ultra wide angle on my Olympus E-M1.2, as that’s definitely the best for these sorts of photos. I find that it takes getting very, very low to get anything usable. And all that sky in the background can be very tough to manage, especially when it is white. This is a series in the making, but first