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

18th and Walnut in Philadelphia, PA. I think it’s the Anthropologie Bridal shop. But whatever it is, it was nicely decorated for Christmas and made for a nice symmetrical, colorful photo. Olympus E-M1.2 12-40/2.8

Yes, it’s a Master Lock. Saw it hanging on a closed-for-Saturday business in Philly and the sun was hitting the lock and the background was in shadow. Not a spectactular image, but I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t feel like setting up for focus stacking, so it’s got a pretty narrow DOF. Olympus E-M1 mk 2 12-40/2.8

Another photo from my random walk around a restaurant in Rittenhouse. I think it was the Green Egg Cafe? It was the daytime and they had all these decorative bulbs hanging out over their outside patio. It was too cold for outside eating and the tables were stacked on top of each other in “storage”, but the strings of these lights remained. They were overhead at around 7’, so I had to stretch to get a bunch of shots. Some like this one were in a sunbeam and there was a dark background. I took probably 10-15 photos trying to