Harvard Square at Night

Last Thursday I took a bus to Harvard Square for a meetup with my friend Ian's photography meetup group. What a fun time we all had walking around Harvard University, enjoying a wonderful, balmy summer evening. Lots to photograph, then an easy bus ride home. I'll do this again with my photo club!

Students running, so fast they are a blur :-)

Our happy group of photographers led by Ian from Photography Workshops. (Not to be confused with my son, Ian)

Shot in the dark without a tripod, but I like the feel of it...

Cape Cod Canal Sunrise: 2 Bridges

The Cape Cod Canal has 3 bridges over it, the Sagamore, the Bourne and the Railroad. The past 2 days a group of us went to the canal next to the Maritime Academy to photograph the sun coming up close to the middle of the Bourne Bridge and the Railroad Bridge. Yesterday, it was a fantastic sunrise, but I was only able to go today. So here are some photos I took at 5am this morning, and one I didn't, because it was yesterday.

The above photo was taken by my friend Rick yesterday, what a great sunrise it was!

Sometimes called the blue hour, before the sun is up.

A church next to the Maritime Academy.

I added a bit of color to this one...

Great ripples from a passing boat.

Sailboat headed to Buzzards Bay.

Maritime Academy students running bright and early.

2 bridges and lots of clouds :-) Still a nice morning to be out shooting with friends.

Summertime at the Cottage

August 12th, mid summer and what a great summer it's been! I've been in photography heaven, apparently I've taken 10,000 images since beginning of April. Way too few of these have made it to this blog, in spite of my best intensions. The way I have been loading them onto blogspot is cumbersome, first sending them to picasa, then copying their url, one at a time, and putting them into the blog. The images turn out bigger, but this time I thought I'd try just getting them from my iPhoto library directly, choosing the upload method on the left side of the pop up page. It's faster, and maybe I'll do it more often?

I've been very happily busy with my photo club, and investigating what and how to make our cottage a more suitable year round home for when Joe retires next year. Ian's been birding and got his driver's license a few weeks ago, we are all mentally preparing for his launch into college in the fall, UMass Amherst.

So, in no particular order, with no particular theme either than they were taken this summer, here are some photographs...

The sunrises have been spectacular, here's the one from this morning, fresh out of the camera.

I've been playing with zoom blur, all done in the camera.

Laughing Gulls at Plymouth beach, taken with Ian's helpful instructions.

Ian and his spotting scope.

Dunes at Plymouth Beach.

Plimoth Plantation.

Night shoot in Boston.

Milo relaxing.

Ian, Andrew and Tayler.

Ian and his new recording gear.

Macro.

The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor.

Cottage with Magnolia in full bloom. April 21.

More macro.

Summer Memories 2010

Joe giving Ian a haircut, again...

Danika and her dad, Patrik on the pond.

Love in the garden.

The Waybacks.

By the Charles River, Cambridge.

Book Group of many names, our 8th annual sleepover, maybe 9th??

Julie and her lovely children, Maddox and Danika.

Experimenting.

Photo club member and friend Maureen at a sunrise shoot in my garden.

Hydrangea.

Song sparrow in the grass, me in the grass, too :-)

Love all the pretty colors.