Lensday: Alone

lone sailboat

This is evidence of the magic of composition. When I took this the river was full of sailboats. By positioning myself carefully I was able to capture this boat looking like it had the river to itself. The river really looked like this:

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Lensday: Flower

Platycodon (balloon flower) bud.
This will turn blue and then burst open.

A sure sign that it's time for vacation (we leave Saturday).

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Lensday: Sunshine

Shining Through the Trees

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Lensday: Purple

On the plaza in front of the hotel near where I work in.

(I'm having a lot of fun with my new camera, though I still need to figure out all of it's features. Work is still nuts, the conference for the users group that I'm president of is in less than 2 weeks and the summer softball league season starts in less than 2 weeks. So, if you don't hear much from me you'll know why.)

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LensDay: Wood

Taken February 9th.
Another picture of this gnarly tree was included here.

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Lensday: Travel

Redline T train crossing the Longfellow Bridge.

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Lensday: Sunset

Taken Friday, January 11 from our bedroom window.

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Lensday: Distorted

Sunrise last Saturday

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Lensday: Rainbow

The flag that hangs by our front door.

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Lensday: Peace

Rainbow Lake

Taken August 1, 2005

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Lensday: Urban

The Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC

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LensDay: Cold

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LensDay: Futuristic

The Stata Center at MIT

Take a good look at this building. To me it looks like something out of Dr Seuss. The construction was not easy. Many of the techniques were untested. You can read about the construction in Building Stata.

MIT is frustrated with what they have called "design flaws" in the building. Frustrated enough that they are suing the architect, Frank Gehry. You can read about the suit here. What gets me about this is that I expect MIT chose Gehry because he pushes the envelope. This building is eye-catching, particularly in the sea of red brick that is Kendall Square. So, MIT chose this design and architect so that they could get a building which will be written about in architecture magazines and texts for years to come. They went into the process knowing that the construction would be tricky and would require the development of new techniques, or at least they should have. Now a couple of years later the building is leaking. MIT is suing the architect because their cutting edge building isn't holding together like a standard rectangular box. It seems to me that if you ask for cutting edge you should expect to need a few bandages, but that's just my opinion.

The good news is that I can just sit back and enjoy the building without worrying about the suit, or the leaks.

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LensDay: Family

My sister-out-law Shelley and her son D.
There's a more serious picture of them here.
Taken on Cape Code in July.

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LensDay: Autumn

Autumn leaves reflected in the Charles River.
I'm quite fond of the abstractness of this.
Taken October 21st in South Natick.

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Lensday: Nature

Spider web found among the blueberries at Wakanda early one morning this summer.
There's a shot of another spider web here.

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Lensday: Automobile

Back in August we spent a day visiting friends in Gloucester. A highlight of the day was wandering the galleries on Rocky Neck. Parked outside one of the galleries was this car.
Glosta" is what Gloucester sounds like when said by a native.

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Lensday: Oddity

I took this outside work this morning. I can't explain why this car had this cone on top.

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LensDay: Gray

Fountain on a building in Washington, DC. I don't remember the name of the building only that it's across the street from the Mexican Embassy.

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LensDay: Transportation

Driving through the mid-west last November.

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