Musings on life as a photographer and journalist in Boston.
Camped out at the U.S. District Courthouse today, waiting for former Governor Mitt Romney to show up for a wrongful termination case against him. It was the first day of the trial, but Romney didn’t show up.
Oh well. At least it gave me plenty of time to check out the exterior of the building! Here’s some John Adams for you:
Yeah, not a whole lot of foot traffic going on at the courthouse on Marathon Monday. Clearly.
A little bit of iPhone nature photography!
Photographed some of the Boston Ballet’s studio run through for their production of Sleeping Beauty for a preview story for the Herald. Here’s an image that I really liked from the assignment.
It was kind of a tricky room to work in, with mirrors at the front and huge windows on the side. At least the highlights from the near-perfect 70-degree day outside gave me a somewhat clean background to work with.
I’ve always loved shooting dance, for some reason. I guess it’s the melding of form and motion, movement and action — kind of like sports, but with better-looking subjects! I guess that explains it.
I recently started following photographer Chase Jarvis’ Twitter feed @chasejarvis. He’s been posting just about a photo a day off his iPhone, and as a new iPhone owner myself, I was pretty impressed by some of the results.
Sure, the quality is about what you’d expect from a cell phone camera — not going to be making any prints out of these — but I’m definitely interested in its street photography applications. I’m always up for shooting more, since I haven’t really shot every day since I got laid off from the paper. I figure this could be a way to do it. And with an iPhone app like Camera Bag, I can get some cool Holga-like effects out of it, just like this shot I got of my dad while we were doing some yard work today (I’ve had a Holga for awhile now, just been too lazy to run any film through it):
Hardly art, I know, but it’s really just a test run. I’m totally in love with this iPhone!
