A Photo a Week Challenge: View Through the front window, the back window, and the top of a very tall building along the wharf in Boston.
Urban Landscape
LOOKING UP WHEN ALL IS SQUARE
Look Up So there’s a bit of up in these street pictures from East Providence. It’s the kind of neighborhood I’d probably live here. Yes, it looks a bit dumpy, but there are signs that there’s art nearby. Moot point…. Read More ›
WHAT’S WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE? WHAT’S THE POINT?
Los Angeles County is bigger in population than at least 40 entire states. Not only does it have a huge population — more than 10 million and counting — but it is physically bigger than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts…. Read More ›
CITYSCAPES FROM MISSION HILL AND 60 STATE STREET IN BOSTON
A Photo a Week Challenge: Cityscape Always my favorite part of shooting in Boston was getting up high enough to get a real view of the city. I got my best view from the hill on which the New England Baptist… Read More ›
SIDEWALK WARS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I never really gave sidewalks much thought. If I had thought about them at all, I would have imagined they had always existed, which is only partially true. The first sidewalks came into being around 2000 B.C. – a millennium… Read More ›
URBAN LIFE – A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
A Photo a Week Challenge: Urban So the subject of the exercise is “urban.” I thought I’d start off with a picture of where we currently live. We didn’t always live in the country. In fact, until 19 years ago we… Read More ›
CITYSCAPE: A PHOTO A WEEK – Marilyn Armstrong
A Photo a Week Challenge: Cityscape/Townscape I love shooting in town. We used to get into town a lot more often than we do now. Admittedly, we get into Uxbridge often, but there isn’t a lot of Uxbridge to shoot…. Read More ›
PEEING IN THE STREETS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I’ve been reading about an urban problem that I thought was solved with the invention of the indoor toilet. Apparently, Paris is so plagued by men peeing in the streets, that they have taken action to mitigate the worst effects… Read More ›
STREETLIGHTS: A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
A Photo a Week Challenge: Street Lights Streetlights. I love them! Especially in a city when the streets are a little wet from recent rain. The street light reflects in rainbow colors and the neon signs make a night in the… Read More ›
THE LIGHTS OF NIGHT – A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
A Photo a Week Challenge: Light the Night I love shooting at night. I don’t do it as often as I used to, probably because we don’t get out at night nearly as much as we used to. I still… Read More ›
CROWDS ON BOSTON’S WHARF – GARRY ARMSTRONG
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face in the Crowd This week’s challenge are faces “in the crowd.” These are the people you never meet. Crowds of tourists. The folks lined up to buy tickets at the game. Happy faces, worried… Read More ›
NAMELESS FACES: ON THE STREETS IN BOSTON
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face in the Crowd This week’s challenge are faces “in the crowd,” or what we used to call in the newspaper biz, nameless faces. There are two really great things about it. The first is… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 