Ed Spadoni > Christmas is coming fast!
12/17/09
Done in camera by manually defocusing, then zooming while exposing.  Slight saturation applied PP.
The starting point for this shot can be seen here:   http://bit.ly/56DoWs
Ed Spadoni > Panning pays off!
1/3/2010
During my sister-in-law's surprise birthday party, held today at the local golf course, snow sledding broke out spontaneously on the hill adjacent to the club house.  Ross, pictured here, borrowed a tube from a young girl and "attacked" the hill with fervor.  I happened to be in the right place at the right moment to capture this.
Ed Spadoni > "So, you need a favor..."
11/7/09
Ed Spadoni > "What are YOU lookin' at?"
9/13/09

A companion photo can be seen here:  http://edspadoni.smugmug.com/Photography/SeptOct09/9608116_KiSRe#648471772_34QfD
Ed Spadoni > Faneuil Hall & the Test of the Gilded Grasshopper (View X2)
1/30/2010

Faneuil Hall, located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain, and is now part of Boston National Historical Park and a well known stop on the Freedom Trail. It is sometimes referred to as "the Cradle of Liberty".

The gilded grasshopper weather vane on top of the building was created by silversmith Shem Drowne in 1742. Gilded with gold leaf the copper weather vane weighs eighty pounds and is four feet long.

Knowledge of the grasshopper was used as a test to determine if people were spies during the Revolution period. The people would ask suspected spies the identity of the object on the top of Faneuil Hall; if they answered correctly, then they were free; if not, they were convicted as British spies. (Wikipedia)
Ed Spadoni > Field Trip!
3/12/2010
Ed Spadoni > “The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.”  Charles Grassley
3/16/2010
Ed Spadoni > Nuts!  Last one.
3/19/2010
(View X2 for detail)

Thanks for all the comments on this week's series.  Sometimes you feel like a nut...
Ed Spadoni > “A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”   Richard Bach 
2/12/2010

Via iPhone.  For SOOI (straight out of iPhone) please view here:   http://bit.ly/97fr5r
Christmas is coming fast!
12/17/09
Done in camera by manually defocusing, then zooming while exposing. Slight saturation applied PP.
The starting point for this shot can be seen here: http://bit.ly/56DoWs
Ed Spadoni > Christmas is coming fast!
12/17/09
Done in camera by manually defocusing, then zooming while exposing.  Slight saturation applied PP.
The starting point for this shot can be seen here:   http://bit.ly/56DoWs
Christmas is coming fast!
12/17/09
Done in camera by manually defocusing, then zooming while exposing. Slight saturation applied PP.
The starting point for this shot can be seen here: http://bit.ly/56DoWs
See photo in original gallery.

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