Autumn in New England

 Autumn in New England lives up to it's reputation, it's always spectacular! Here's a sampling of the beauty of our area, many of these photos taken while on meetups with my camera club. So much more fun going shooting with friends :-)

These first photos were taken at Quincy Quarries, a photo shoot set up by Carol from our camera club. We all loved it!!

Bonus of a lifelong quarry historian to explain how the granite was taken out of here to build the Bunker Hill Monument, among many other famous buildings in New England.

Joe's homemade pumpkin chocolate vegan birthday cake.

Yesterday we were invited to the beautiful Slocum-Gibbs Cranberry bogs to watch the wet harvesting. The land is well taken care of by the owner John in a sustainable manner that will allow him to harvest for 100 years.

Joe throwing leaves in the air for me at Mt Auburn Cemetery.

Joe and Bill.

View of Boston from Quincy Quarries, a photo shoot we went on last week. 

Maureen and Rick, friends from our photo club who come to many events. Good sports and good photographers!

Turning Mills Ruins in Quincy, Ma. We had fun shooting here after we went to the Quarries.

Entrance by special permission only.

This beautiful Juvenile Red Tailed Hawk entertained all us by posing and flying from tree to tree, awesome!

Innocent passer by...

On the way back from NJ, at a rest stop.

Zakim Bridge and The USS Constitution

Sunday evening 13 photographers from Plymouth Digital Photographers met at Portal Park next to North Station and combed the area looking for beautiful images. First we headed over to The USS Constitution, oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world.  We were hoping for a moon rise over the Charles River, but the cloud cover gave us good shooting light instead. We then headed back to the Zakim Bridge to get some blue hour shots before the lovely nighttime lights came on.

Joe came along with us, he had helped me scout out our route a few weeks before, and we all had a great time. The photos don't seem to be in the order they were taken, I'm trying the new format blogspot has given us, and didn't want to spend the time reordering them. So the images are all here, if a little messy.  I had so much fun shooting this evening, can't wait to go back and try it again. From the photos club members put in our meetup group album, it was a successful photo shoot for everyone! 

The famous Zakim Bridge spans the Charles River Basin.

Segway tour participant rode by near our meeting location. Think Joe and I will try this soon.

Walking back to the Zakim from the USS Constitution, Charlestown Bridge.

War ship dry docked next to the USS Constitution.

On the USS Constitution.

Photographers from our photo club.

Joe helping out a couple by taking their photograph. Lots of cameras clicking on this ship!