Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, canoe, greenway, kayak, north end, paddle board, postaday, sudbury river, zakim bridge on September 26, 2015| 4 Comments »
A few recent shots. The beautiful Zakim Bridge, late summer flower in the Greenway, water bugs on the Sudbury River, four scenes from Boston’s North End (which can still feel a bit like stepping into Italy), mysterious “pasta” along the railroad track, and my selfie shadow.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, concord art association, design museum, first parish in concord, greenway, ideo, michio ihara, north end, postaday, sculpture, street seats on July 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
In Boston: a Greenway exercise class on a hot morning, a North End corner named for a beloved local, a Street Seats bench by ideo, one with a grassy cushion near the Children’s Museum, and a wavelike one in a shaded arcade along Fort Point Channel.
In Concord: an arched vista, a Michio Ihara sculpture at the Concord Art Association, the entry of the Art Association, a shop’s wind decoration still outside at at 6 a.m., and the herb garden behind First Parish.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, boston, flash forward, greenway, magenta foundation, north end, photo, photographer, phototography, rose kennedy on June 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »
These photos were placed on the Greenway sidewalk near Boston’s North End. They are the result of the Flash Forward Festival for emerging photographers, which took place earlier this month. The event is sponsored by the Magenta Foundation of Magenta magazine (“publishing for the arts”).
“Set within the Boston cityscape, the five-day festival is based out of the Fairmont Battery Wharf, offering an in-depth experience through organized networking events and educational programming that brings internationally respected industry professionals together to share their knowledge with the next generation of photographers. Programming includes curated indoor and outdoor exhibitions, a Harborwalk exhibition series featuring work from local galleries, along with lectures, panel discussions, and nightly events.” Read more about it here.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3-D, bend light, boston, christopher columbus park, energy conservation, energy saving, engineer, gfavalora, led, light, light-emitting diode, lighting systems, Minsk, north end, OFH_John, optical, optics, Optics for Hire, phase discontinuity, reflection, refraction, seas, street lamp, Ukraine, waterfront on September 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This morning on my walk I noticed a sign about energy-saving LED (light-emitting diode) street lamps. The sign is hard to read here, but it says that the LED lighting was provided by the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park. It also says that “the City of Boston is testing different types of LED lighting systems around the town and wants to know what you think.” Tell the City here.
The main reason I’m interested is that John is in the optics business, and his team is always working on LED, 3-D, and other optical projects beyond my ken. (I blogged about his Eastern European optical engineers here and here. John and Gregg tweet at OFH_John and gfavalora.)
And while we’re on the subject of optics, check out an article about “bizarre optical phenomena, defying the laws of reflection and refraction. …
“Cambridge, Mass. – September 1, 2011 – Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction.” They bend light. Kind of like a fun house mirror.
You can see what they are talking about here.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, harbor, hummingbird, italian, little italy, lobster, north end, waterfront on August 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Near where I work in Boston, there is something new to see every day.
Here are two shots of the ever picturesque North End. 
Here 
are shots of the harbor post-Irene and the James Hook & Co. golden lobster.
And here are the deep red plants that attracted a hummingbird outside the cafeteria yesterday. He didn’t show up today for his sc
reen test, so I borrowed someone else’s hummingbird.
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