Went outside to see a lovely bush of Pink/Orange miniature rose bush that I have. It just started blooming last week and probably has 100 blooms on it. I took a few “normal” rose shots of the pretty flowers but wanted something different and I did not have a lot of time. So I took my iPhone and shot up at the sky from underneath the roses. It was too dark, of course, with the iPhone. And I just didn’t have the time to run back inside and get my “real” camera and take what I had envisioned. So I

Similar to the color photos, there are also neat Black-and-White photos in the same Back Bay and Beacon Hill areas. I loved the #67 squat, wide doors. The second photo is a bit odd. On one multi-million $$ townhouse 1/2 up a hill in Beacon Hill, there were 6 heating oil spouts, one for each unit, I guess. The last one is of that increasingly rare sight, phone booths. It’s over just east of the Boston Public Garden in front of a random building. I loved the symmetry.

During Marathon weekend, spent time walking from Back Bay to Beacon Hill. The alleys in Boston are rich sources of urban forms and patterns, in my opinion. Lots of neat stuff back there. In Beacon Hill, the colored door and upscale house fonts are also nice. I loved the neat vine growing on this $7-9M townhouse. Ditto the wonderful yellow door. The last one is from an Alley. I have no idea where this goes. The red circle in the 3rd photo is the ubiquitous fire alarm on so many Boston buildings.

This year, my favorite photo venues have definitely been urban areas. I’d love to go in more run-down areas, but these days, safety is a real concern and I almost always photograph alone, so those two things don’t go together. An upper-middle-aged white guy driving a nice car in a run-down, urban neighborhood with a camera. That just a recipe for the small chance encounter that I don’t want to have. So I will wonder around nice, Northern NJ towns and take photos of what I see. The best stuff, as I’ve said elsewhere, is not the front of the

One of my favorite photos from the two weeks that was in Apalachicola. I’m not sure why, but this white block building, long abandoned. No ceiling/roof. With an interior brick wall and plants growing on the inside and the outside really appealed to me. I loved the way that there are plants on both sides of the building as it is being reclaimed. I also love the contrasts of the white outside, the red brick, and the smatterings of green and black symmetrically framed.

Last day for this trip. A lovely square image of a window with textures and a great wooden color. An abstract with splotches of paint. And a long shot of a building with mirrored doors on both sides. /

This is the bridge that heads out of town and over the bay to East Point. I tried to make this look like an old photo, shot at 12mm with the Olympus E-M1, so the FOV of a 24mm lens on FF. It’s OK. I’m not in love with it

Much of the town of Apalachicola is in a bit of disrepair with the pandemic and the changing climate on the gulf coast. One year, the tourists are flocking there, the next they stay on St George’s Island or go elsewhere. This means the allure of the slow, fishing village, river life is lost on many. These photos are of a hotel right on the river next to town that looks like a great location. I found an Article here that said it was bought out of bankruptcy in 2020. I also heard that one of the developers died, but

Took a two week sojourn to Apalachicola Florida where my family has been visiting since the 1960’s. Spent a quiet 2 weeks working, looking after our house, and taking photos of the town and surrounding area. Most of these photos are of the town, which is very small with only about 2,500 residents. It is a historic fishing village with no beaches. The beaches are over on the St. George barrier island accessible by the bridge. That’s where most of the money is aside from one nice area with nice houses on the bay side of town. The actual town