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  • Thursday Throwback – 29

    Thursday Throwback – 29

    One of the fascinating things is how our memories are recorded in such varied ways. In going through my back-catalog in search of an image for this week, I came across a rather strong memory.

    Here’s that image…

    Keramieke

    This image is from 2012, as I was going through a period of capturing something different every day. This lovely, abstract statue sits in our home, and was created by my wonderful aunt, Mieke. Mieke was a wonderful soul, who I always enjoyed visiting, as I stopped by her flat in Rotterdam. She was overflowing with creativity, and always had a slightly different perspective on many of the events that occurred around us. I think some of that perspective rubbed off on me, which is a rather good thing in my opinion.

    Looking at this photo brings back lots of warm memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

  • Wednesday Window – pt 33

    Wednesday Window – pt 33

    There’s nothing like a quick photography walk to generate a bunch of interesting images. Last Friday’s walk through Boston’s Seaport district proved to be pretty fruitful!

    Here’s another image from that walk…

    Feel Good about Hood!

    This is in front of the Boston Children’s Museum, and the Hood milk stand has been there longer than I can remember. The reflection in the windows of the modern building caught my eye, as well as the variety of materials and textures that are in view.

    This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page.

  • Travel Tuesday

    Travel Tuesday

    Sometimes our travel doesn’t need to take us very far to cause us to have interesting observations. For this installment, the travel was just my commute to work, and the opportunity to walk around the Boston Seaport area with camera in hand.

    Here’s one of the views from my saunter…

    Boston Skyscape

    What caught my attention, as you can well imagine, is the shining roof of the art deco building. This building is located at 160 Federal Street in Boston, and was built in 1930 as the United Shoe Machinery Building. At 24 floors, it actually was the tallest office building in Boston for 20 years. As you can tell, it is no longer that.

    What really attracted me to this skycap was the contrast of varying styles and eras of building construction. It’s always interesting to see how architecture evolves and how differences can come together. Sounds like a great concept for many other facets of society.

  • Monday’s Spectrum Exploration

    Monday’s Spectrum Exploration

    As the autumnal season approaches, I will do some additional photography with my IR-converted cameras. Part of what I will do is capturing the same image with both cameras, which will provide some material for comparison. This will be a key part of the source material for a presentation that I will be doing next Spring on Infrared Photography. More on that later!

    Here’s an image from my 720nm EOS 5D MkII…

    Wachusett Reservoir

    This is one of the earlier captures with this camera, as it was the first one to be converted. In terms of processing, I used one of the camera raw profiles that includes a channel swap. In the channel swap, I was looking for a pleasantly blue sky, so that minimal editing was needed afterwards.

    I’ll look to add some comparison images in future posts. Have a wonderful Monday!

  • A walk through Boston

    A walk through Boston

    This past week has been pretty busy with face-to-face meetings for our rather distributed organization at headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. Meeting people in person makes a tremendous amount of difference in our level of understanding of each other and increases the overall amount of collaboration across our teams. It was busy, long, tiring and definitely successful!

    As one of my co-workers had a 10 hour layover in Boston and had some camera questions, we took the opportunity to do a bit of a photography walk. Here’s one of my shots from that saunter…

    Boston Street

    As our Boston office is in the Seaport district, it really lends itself to a bit of walking and photography. As we walked through the area, we took the opportunity to look at how to photograph, using leading lines, playing with backlighting subjects, reflections, and such.

    This nice little street set up perfectly for some play with leading lines.

  • iPhone Friday (+1)

    iPhone Friday (+1)

    This iPhone Friday image might be a day late, but I felt it was worth sharing. One of the best features of our smartphones is that they ensure that we always have a camera with us, which nowadays is of pretty good quality.

    Here’s what I noticed yesterday…

    International Reflections

    As I was waiting in the cellphone lot at Boston’s Logan Airport, I was looking at this reflection in front of me. The new international terminal is a brilliant red and looks amazing. I could help but be intrigued by the reflected baggage carts and then vehicles went by…

  • Thursday Throwback – 28

    Thursday Throwback – 28

    For this week’s installment, I’m going back to a photo from only 10 years ago, which also reminds us of a different era.

    Here’s that photo…

    Volendam Fishing

    Captured from the docks of the picturesque town of Volendam, these boats go back to a time when fishing was more plentiful in the Zuiderzee and, after being close of by the Afsluitdijk, the IJsselmeer. Volendam and several other towns along this body of water have a rich and storied history, often interrupted by floods and bad storms.

  • Wednesday Window – pt 32

    Wednesday Window – pt 32

    Even when out on a trip for work, there are plenty of windows to be found. Therefore, this week’s post has fresh material!

    Here’s a view from yesterday…

    View from a Window

    As I’m in Raleigh, here’s a view from my hotel room looking toward some of the office buildings nearby. It’s rather quiet at this time of day, as you can see, but at least there’s a nice looking sky!

    This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page.

  • Travel Tuesday

    Travel Tuesday

    As I’m traveling for work for a week of face-to-face (F2F) meetings, I thought I’d share an image from Monday morning’s stroll to the office. I noticed something that was new to me, as it’s been a while I went to our corporate headquarters.

    Here’s what I came across…

    Acorn to the Max!

    This rather sizable acorn was standing proud as a reminder of the city’s nickname. So for fun, I will leave it up to all of you to guess which city I am in! The winner gets bragging rights!

    Have a wonderful day!

  • Monday’s Spectrum Exploration

    Monday’s Spectrum Exploration

    As I’m wrapping up a busy weekend, balancing preparing for a work trip, my new web-site and getting images ready for this week’s posts, I’m happy to have this next image for this week’s post. It’s another shot from just over a week ago, and was taken with my 720nm modified camera.

    Let’s take a look at what’s ready…

    New Salem Academy Museum

    I find that when shooting in a different part of the light spectrum, and processing for it, there is opportunity for almost super-real black and white. This one came out for that, as sky and clouds were captured just different enough to get a rather enjoyable end result by going monochrome.

    Shot with my converted Canon EOS 5D Mk II with a 720nm filtered sensor.