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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson

"It might take me a little longer." -- Ed Spadoni

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Daily Photos Jan - Mar 2010 : "The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination". ~Ward Elliot Hour

Please enjoy these daily photos and feel free to leave a comment.

Prior Daily Photo galleries can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/4qakLb

Daily Photos Jan - Mar 2010

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in ...

Updated: Mar 16, 2010 3:52am PST

Daily Photos Oct - Dec 2009 : "Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity". ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
------------------------------------------------SmugMug's DailyPhotos Community is a wonderful group of talented and friendly photographers, whom I first met during my "30 Days Hath September" jaunt http://bit.ly/2i0Cxn. That experience has inspired me to keep shooting every day and to improve my photographic skills. This gallery is of photos I will be taking and posting each day, unless time is against me, when I'll be posting a recently taken image. Comments welcome!

Daily Photos Oct - Dec 2009

"Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity". ~M ...

Updated: Dec 31, 2009 9:10am PST

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Almost home
2/17/2010

A bee's eye view
The stamen and pistil of a lily
(view XL2 for best detail)
2/15/10
A closer look can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/aa5htn
And thanks for all the comments on yesterday's flower shot.

...and then, he was gone.
1/25/2010

The North End of Boston
1/31/2010

From Wikipedia:
Boston's North End is the city's oldest residential community, where people have lived continuously since it was settled in the 1630s. Though small (⅓ mi²), the neighborhood has approximately 100 eating establishments, and a variety of tourist attractions. It is known as the city's Little Italy for its Italian-American population.

The Old North Church (the white steeple seen in the center of this image), at 193 Salem Street, in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, is the location from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent. This phrase is related to Paul Revere's midnight ride, of April 18, 1775, which preceded the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.

Fire in the sky
9/14/09 -2
Second of two today (I couldn't pass up this sunset).

Quarter Mile Pond in winter
2/20/2010

“The brightest light moving away from us, unless it be reflected, is darkness to us.” www.thinkexist.com
2/23/2010

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
John Maxwell
3/6/2010

"Measure three times and cut once."
Proverb
3/2/2010

“God often gives nuts to toothless people”
Matt Groening
3/15/2010

Harraseeket Yacht Club, So. Freeport, ME, late afternoon.

Kalanchoe
2/11/2010
Currently in bloom on my office window sill

The Lieutenant William F. Callahan Tunnel...
2/3/2010
... is one of three tunnels beneath Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts. It carries motor vehicles from the North End to Logan International Airport. The tunnel was opened in 1961. It was named for the son of Turnpike chairman William F. Callahan, who was killed in Italy just days before the end of World War II. Operatic Tenor, William Flavin, of Milton Mass. sang the Star Spangled Banner and Oh Danny Boy at the opening of the Callahan Tunnel in 1961.
[Wikipedia]

“Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .” Amelia E. Barr
2/20/2010
Thank you to all for you comments on yesterday's wintry lake scene.

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."
Joyce A. Myers
3/3/2010

Thanks for all the comments on yesterday's "saw" picture. It sounds like it brought back a lot of memories.

Don't judge a book by it's cover...
or a library by it's exterior!
2/26/2010
(Actually it's an Abercrombie & Fitch outlet store, Freeport, ME)

"Do not Fear the Flash!"
01/02/2010

That's my New Year's resolution. So I am reading a book on the Nikon Creative Lighting System, which some say is the best portable lighting system in the world (!). Here is my first attempt at off-camera flash. Other shots can be seen here: http://bit.ly/6vOIk5

I have a long way to go but I am beginning to appreciate the value of the system and "getting the flash off the darn camera" as Rick Sammon would say. Feedback welcome. Thanks.

Off camera SB 600 flash, Nikon 35mm lens

Also - please note about today's date: "Thoreau never had one during his lifetime. Neither did George Washington nor Albert Einstein. Today in the United States, which uses the month/day/year format for dates, there is a rare chance to celebrate a palindrome date - 01/02/2010 - which reads the same forward as it does backward." Boston.com.

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
John Lennon
2/14/2010
Happy Valentine's Day!

PS. If you guessed snowy roof yesterday, you were right!

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” Matsuo Basho
3/7/2010

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
-- Sir Claus Moser
2/18/2010
Best viewed X2.

Thanks for all your comments on yesterday's "Almost home". Many commented on the warm tones. I'd love to take creative credit for that, but that golden hue was the result of shooting in the light of what I think was an uncommon type of street lamp, using auto-WB. I started to correct the tones in PP but decided it looked better that way. That's what I'll call a "happy accident!"

"All those in favor of an early spring, raise your left hand!"
2/19/2010

"99 bottles of... oh, never mind"
2/2/2010
Thanks for all the comments on yesterday's "traffic". No, not my collection, but those cars were all on sale at a kiosk in Boston. I couldn't help but think of the morning commute!

Just hangin'
2/8/2010

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend." Walter Savage Landor (Best viewed XL+)
3/4/2010

Thank you all for the comments on yesterday's "pencil sharpener". The orange color was a reflection from a stack of construction paper that stood to the left of the sharpener.

Trout
LL Bean's Riverbed Aquarium, Freeport, Me
2/22/2010
We spent this past weekend in Freeport, Maine, and naturally, visited LL Bean. These shots are from their indoor aquarium, which is quite a site to see. The exterior of the aquarium can be seen here: http://bit.ly/9b5K3l
More images from Freeport will be presented here over the next several days.

H.A. Hovey Co.
2/4/2010

These signs are hung inside the Great Rotunda of Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston. I did some research of H.A. Hovey Co. and found:

The earliest reference I found was of Horatio Atwell Hovey who was born in 1820 and "worked for several years in the butter trade in his father's stall in the Faneuil Hall market... and at 21 became a partner with his father." [Google Books]

The latest reference was this:

Varnum Russell Mead, retired owner of H. A. Hovey Co. of Boston and Cambridge, died Dec. 18 [2006] after suffering a fall near his home on Martha's Vineyard. Following World War II, Mr. Mead went into business with his late father, Francis V. Mead, at H.A. Hovey Co. located next door to Durgin Park in the Quincy Market. Mr. Mead sold his business and retired in 1984. [The Martha's Vineyard Times, posted Dec. 18, 2006.]

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore
1/26/2010

The gazebo on the town common
1/12/2010

"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
James Allen
2/16/2010
Many thanks for all the comments on yesterday's lily shot.

"Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away"
2/27/2010

William Hughes Mearns (1875-1965), Antigonish [Wikipedia]

Killer traffic
2/1/2010

Thank you to all who viewed and commented on my "North End" image of yesterday. That was taken from high up in the 28 State Street building.

"If a string has one end, then it has another end."
Proverb
3/1/2010

Hamilton
1/18/2010
More flash off the camera work today and in the next few days.

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