Polarbare Photography

Boston, my adopted home. I love riding the T, I enjoy your magnificent history, I thrive on exploring your mix of modern and colonial architecture; but until this past weekend I had never gotten to see you at your best, under a blanket of fresh falling snow. Oh, I’ve seen Boston with 2 feet of brownish-gray week-old snow and it isn’t pretty; but new fallen fluffy white snow is a whole other matter, in short, it was splendiferous! (Yes that’s a real word) With a couple of my usual mates Jeff Tamagini and John Tammaro we set out for a day of shooting around Boston Common and Beacon Hill. The snow was falling, our hands were freezing, and we had a fantastic day or it. Due to the falling snow I was worried about compression so I put away the 100-300 for the most part and stuck to my goto lens, the Sigma 10-20. I was going to be really happy to have 2 or 3 real keepers from this shoot, but after getting home and only seeing ~80 shots on my CF card I started getting worried. I must be getting more selective with my shots (one of my goals for 2011) as I have a number of keepers and am really happy with the way the photowalk went.

I’ll have some more shots from this walk coming up soon, but if you get a chance to get out in Boston in the fluffy white stuff, do it! It’s well worth it.