Posts Tagged ‘Boston’
Wordless Wednesday: Life Imitates Art
Posted in art, Humor, photography, Wordless Wednesday, tagged Boston, Boston Common, nature, photography, swan, swan boats, Wordless Wednesday on May 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday: Beauty and the Beast
Posted in Nature, photography, Wordless Wednesday, tagged Boston, Castle Island, nature, photography, Wordless Wednesday on May 3, 2017| 1 Comment »
Weekly Photo Challenge: Repurpose
Posted in art, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged artwork, Boston, Megacities, Museum of Fine Arts, photography, Weekly Photo Challege: Repurpose on February 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Ideas for repurposing often spring out of economic necessity, and thus they often begin with something that is usually thrown away or can be acquired free. If it is a good idea, it can become trendy and shabby-chic. Pallet furniture is an example.
First there was pallet furniture, then Christmas season brought pallet trees!
Last year I went to the Megacities exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The art for this exhibit was mostly made out of what some would consider “trash.” The art in the rotunda was made from plastic dishes!
For more examples of repurposed, click here!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Room
Posted in Humor, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Boston, Cambridge, Harvard Library, Harvard University, laptop computer, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: Room, woman on laptop on June 10, 2014| 2 Comments »
I’m a bit late this week, but better late than never. This is the biggest “desk” I’ve ever seen; that’s some room to work!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Boston, history, monuments, photography, Plymouth, statues, Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument on April 12, 2014| 4 Comments »
The week’s challenge topic is Monument. Here is a gallery of monument photos I have featured in the past, plus a couple of new ones.
The Boston area of the U.S. has a lot of history, though we are really a “young” nation compared with Europe. So, none of these monuments are really “old.”
The Library at Peacefield is from the 1800s.
So too, is the statue of Washington in the Public Gardens.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Arlington Street Church, Boston, Boston Marathon Bombing, community, photography, prayer flags, Weekly Photo Challenge: Community on December 15, 2013| 8 Comments »
The Weekly Photo Challenge topic this week is Community. As the year winds to a close and the snow falls outside, I reflected on the past year and decided to post pictures from an important event (and remind myself of warmer weather).
After the Boston Marathon bombings in April, people tied prayer flags to the wrought iron fence of the Arlington Street Church, down the street from the finish line where the bombings occurred. I was in the city of Boston in August and took these shots. It was very moving — an impressive demonstration of a sense of community.
After the devastation of the bombing, Boston’s sense of community culminated in the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series with the slogan, “Boston Strong!”
The prayer flags were later painstakingly untied by volunteers with knitting needles. Some were saved for a memorial quilt and some were burned, so I’m glad I got to see them while they were there.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One Item or the Number One
Posted in Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, photography, tagged Boston, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge: One Item or the Number One, photography, The Greenway on November 7, 2013| 2 Comments »
Cee’s Photo Challenge this week is to show one item or the number one.
Here’s a few that fit the bill. I took them on a recent trip to Boston,walking on the Greenway on a rainy day.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns
Posted in photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged architectural photography, architecture, Boston, Boston Common, parks, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns on September 21, 2013| 12 Comments »
The topic this week is the lines and patterns we see in the world around us.
These are a few I have seen recently.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual POV
Posted in artwork, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Boston, Cool Globes Art Exhibit, global warming, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual POV on September 8, 2013| 16 Comments »
Cheri Lucas Rowlands gives us this week’s Photo Challenge: Unusual Point of View. She introduces it this way:
Challenge yourself to rethink your ideas about what subjects are appropriate, and then challenge yourself again to find an unusual perspective on your subject.
I recently went into Boston to meet a friend and saw these “Cool Globes” in different areas of the city. The art exhibit is to call attention to the issue of global warming. (You can read about it here.) All of the globes represent an artist’s unique perspective on the issue.
I really enjoyed looking at them as I walked around and took pictures of some of them…and I took pictures of other people taking pictures and enjoying them too, which I think is a unique perspective!
Tree Tuesday
Posted in Nature, photography, Tree Tuesday, tagged Boston, nature, photography, pond, Tree Tuesday, Weeping Willows on August 27, 2013| 4 Comments »
We had a glorious day in Boston on Sunday: not a cloud in the sky, not too hot, not too cold…PERFECT. I walked around the public gardens enjoying the flowers and trees. Some of my favorites: the majestic weeping willows that surround the Swan boat pond. They just say “summer” to me.