Photo of the Day, Boston Style - Part Deux

[Scott]

Wow, it sure does...!

[kz1000ps]

It's so gorgeous, Briv! This just has to be my new desktop background. Darn, and I had a really good one up already..

[kz1000ps]

This babe may have some faults, but I think she's just as gorgeous as the sunrise Briv posted.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2550/dscf0010tq4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[statler]

I didn't think this warrented it's own thread so I thought I would throw it in here.

Boston.com's 24/24 Boston (http://boston.com/news/special/2424boston/).

Yeah, the h-scroll sucks but the pictures are amazing. 8)

[kz1000ps]

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6578/dscf00201nc4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[LeTaureau]

My God, I love this thread

[nothingman]

http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/e024f03ec1.bmp (http://www.uploadfile.info)

[nothingman]

god damn it.

[nothingman]

sorry 'bout that.

[nothingman]

help me jebus............

http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/be3b2b12d5.jpg (http://www.uploadfile.info)

[BostonSkyGuy]

^^ That's how Fenway is going to look if the Red Sox keep playing like they are right now.

[justin]

http://boston.com/news/special/2424boston/

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/LT-711.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/Misc/Zakim-02.jpg

[justin]

Good to have you back with your camera!

justin

[DowntownDave]

I feel like that scene in Godfather III: :)
"Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in!"

[atlantaden]

I absolutely love the Zakim/Bunker Hill Bridge! Are there plans to develop the water's edge leading under the bridge with some sort of pedestrian walkway?

[Ron Newman]

Yes. On the Charlestown side, there will eventually be a skate-park.

[kz1000ps]

DowntownDave, your shot of the Zakim bridge is quite surreal. If Bob Ross ever painted it, I think it would come out looking a lot like this.

[DowntownDave]

I don't make mistakes, I just have happy accidents.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/BostonSandAndGravel-01.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/Reflection-01.jpg

[kz1000ps]

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/4806/dscf00021wh6.jpg

..While this makes for a lovely scene, one of the big things that irks me about Boston is that the alleys are all just too clean and museum-like. I want some grit, damnit!

[TimmyG]

I'll bring some trash next time I visit Boston.

[lexicon506]

Trust me, kz1000ps, Boston has grit, you're just not looking in the right places. You can't expect to find grit in the most desirable neighborhoods of the most expensive cities in the country.

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/TedWilliams-01.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/Balloon/IMG_4674_raw.jpg

[castevens]

Gorgeous shot, Dave.

And Sidewalk Sam is at it again. I haven't seen that one yet.

Although I have been too busy since I've been back to even leave campus, save for 1 time.

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/Balloon/IMG_4645_raw.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/Misc/MITFire-01.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/NightBoston/IMG_4733_raw.jpg

[DowntownDave]

REPENT

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/Repent-01.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/HancockSky-02.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/BoatHancockPru-01.jpg

[DowntownDave]

It's the 900th time I have taken this photo, but I still love it every time.... :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/ZakimReflect-03.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/IMG_5271.jpg

[BostonSkyGuy]

^ I really like that picture DTD. One of my favorite's of all the ones you've taken.

[DowntownDave]

Thanks. It is my favoite building in the city.

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/SpeedyBoat-01.jpg

[Corey]

Wow!

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/Misc/Pallas-01.jpg

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/NightBoston/PublicGardenBridge-01.jpg

[LeTaureau]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/Misc/Pallas-01.jpg


Where is she located? And which mythological Goddess/Character is she?

[Merper]

my guess is the Atheneum in Cambridge.

[DowntownDave]

Bingo... :)

[DowntownDave]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/RandomBoston/PruFence-01.jpg

[statler]

Bingo... :)
I figured that, but does anybody know who she is? I've always wondered.

[PaulC]

I believe that use to be the Athens Press Building

[LeTaureau]

If its the Atheneum, it must be the Goddess Athena. It makes sense now, she is typically shown with spear and helmet.

[statler]

If its the Atheneum, it must be the Goddess Athena. It makes sense now, she is typically shown with spear and helmet.

:oops: :oops: :oops:

[kz1000ps]

To make up for my absence around here lately, here's a double dose.

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/9669/dscf0059qu9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
.

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6821/dscf00082ih8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[castevens]

Just had to post the 300th post since I haven't been around much lately either :)

I haven't taken a picture with my camera for almost 2 months now... :(

[castevens]

Almost time for the Head of the Charles again!

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_0011PS.jpg

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_1384.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Love the tower (and how the metal "pulls away" from the glass portion), hate the base. Straight out of the 1950s -- lame.

[DowntownDave]

I think that the 'base' there is a different building which is indeed from the 50s. :)

[castevens]

The base of West Village H (the tower 2 posts above) looks just like the rest of the tower. the part of West Village H that comes toward my camera was built with the rest of the building in 2004.

It just looks weird from that angle...

[castevens]

This shows a little more of it

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_1397.jpg

[castevens]

and this is from the rear of the building

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_1410.jpg

[castevens]

I don't know, I guess just looking at that building every day, I feel like the base looks just like the rest. I think the reason it looks weird in the first image is because they have flaps coming from the windows and from that angle, the flaps make it look like there are no windows...

[kz1000ps]

That's the thing.. from any vantage point other than straight on, the fins make the building look like it has a dull vertical repetition pattern that blocks out the glazed facade. The building is all-right, but I'm not sure what the fins do for it, aesthetically or functionally (it gets sun only later on in the day).

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/IMG_0088.jpg

[castevens]

/\ Taken just a few minutes ago, with my girlfriend's camera :)

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/IMG_0092.jpg

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/IMG_0095.jpg

[DowntownDave]

Nice. Thank you for ressurecting this thread. :)

[justin]

Those photos really bring out the 111 Huntington crown as an echo of the Christian science mother ship dome.

justin

[castevens]

I wish I had my camera yesterday for that, and I also wish i started the pictures about 10 minutes earlier, but oh well. I'll get another chance!

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_0029.jpg

[briv]

Nice pictures castevens.

I always found it funny that The Colonnade Hotel lacked a colonnnade.

[castevens]

that picture is pre-green colonnade :)

And thanks for the compliment :)

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_0099-1.jpg

[castevens]

Im a little crooked, huh? thats what i get for lining it up with the top of a diagonal building

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_0101.jpg

[cityrecord]

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/6717/fpcsteeplelq3.jpg

The Boston skyline from the steeple of First Parish Church in Dorchester this afternoon. Boston DPW salt and sand storage facility in the foreground.

[xec]

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/trixecol/_0607080058S.jpg

[ablarc]

^ Love the way you captured the relentless texture of the buildings on the left.

[xec]

Unintentionally counterbalanced by the near total absence of texture from those on the right.

[JoeGallows]

Finally got my new camera! Expect many more pictures from now on. Here's 1970 Comm. Ave.:

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/1970.jpg

[Waldorf]

Holy Cow! I like that pic. It only the city and the buildings were really that bright at night.

Thanks. Here are a couple more I took that night.

https://wfs.bc.edu/bowesst/ab/new/IMG_9143.jpg

https://wfs.bc.edu/bowesst/ab/new/IMG_9155.jpg

Bowesst, got any more of these awesome night shots?

[bowesst]

Unfortunately I was only able to get a few that night before I got kicked off of the Louis Boston property. Here are a few other ones though.


http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5691/img6846ay6.jpg

I think it was about -10 with the windchill when I took this. I had to take my gloves off to work the camera too. :lol:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1852/img7621aw0.jpg

[ablarc]

Here's 1970 Comm. Ave.
Nice picture of a dreary building. Belongs in The Bronx.

[bowesst]

Here's 1970 Comm. Ave.
Nice picture of a dreary building. Belongs in The Bronx.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/961/debbiedownerqe4.jpg

[JoeGallows]

Nice picture of a dreary building. Belongs in The Bronx.

And it's all I see out of my living room windows.



Anway, a good bit of late season color left on the Reservoir (taken today):

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/CHR.jpg

[briv]

JoeGallows, you just missed the pique. Still pretty though.

Boswesst, take it easy on Ablarc. Sure, he can be the board's curmudgeon from time to time, but his observations are right more often than they are wrong, IMO. That photo posted by Joe Gallows is beautiful, but I think hes right about the building in general. Seen from street-level, it does look like something outta the Bronx, and I'm not even sure that's an insult...I think it may be a compliment.

Yes, Ablarc can be hard on new(ish) development, but I think its just because he knows this city can be more than what it is. This is just a case of Ablarc being Ablarc.

BTW, Bowesst, that last photo you posted of the BPL belongs on a goddam postcard. Ive never seen it before, and its amazing. Awesome.

[bowesst]

JoeGallows, you just missed the pique. Still pretty though.

Boswesst, take it easy on Ablarc. Sure, he can be the board's curmudgeon from time to time, but his observations are right more often than they are wrong, IMO. That photo posted by Joe Gallows is beautiful, but I think hes right about the building in general. Seen from street-level, it does look like something outta the Bronx, and I'm not even sure that's an insult...I think it may be a compliment.

Yes, Ablarc can be hard on new(ish) development, but I think its just because he knows this city can be more than what it is. This is just a case of Ablarc being Ablarc.

BTW, Bowesst, that last photo you posted of the BPL belongs on a goddam postcard. Ive never seen it before, and its amazing. Awesome.

I know, I'm just giving him a hard time. :lol: I just think most people look at the photo of the day from an artistic mindset rather than a critial one. Atleast I do anyway.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1240/img64332yx7.jpg

[Corey]

^she's a beaut!

[PerfectHandle]

All of you photographic contributors should submit your photos for this contest:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/photocontest/

Especially you bowwest.

[bowesst]

Thanks for posting that. I'm thinking about submitting some. It would be kind of cool if they ended up using one for a brochure or something like that. Have any recommendations for which ones to send in?

[Waldorf]

Thanks for posting that. I'm thinking about submitting some. It would be kind of cool if they ended up using one for a brochure or something like that. Have any recommendations for which ones to send in?

The night shot of library. That one is a winner.

[bosdevelopment]

Thanks for posting that. I'm thinking about submitting some. It would be kind of cool if they ended up using one for a brochure or something like that. Have any recommendations for which ones to send in?

The shot from the pru, overlooking fenway at sunset. BTW i'd like to make that a background again. Is it on this forum anywhere or was it destroyed in the archboston fire.

[bowesst]

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/110/img4177fb0.jpg

[bowesst]

Here's that one of Fenway bosdevelopment.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5739/img1733mm0.jpg

[bosdevelopment]

Thanks bra'

If anyone saw that southpark episode when cartman's dog the bounty hunter there's one word to describe the above shot:

"niceeee"

[bowesst]

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8152/img8460gd4.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Pardon my french but that shot is fucking incredible. Never do we get to see this side of the tower, and adding in that utterly practical, human element only makes this masterpiece of a structure that much more captivating. Awesome!

[kz1000ps]

I don't know where else to put these, so here's some random photos I've amassed over the last few months.

First, from my walk through the South End today, I absolutely love this design to the stairway sidepieces

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1896/southend1qv4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Second, I'm stunned. The 1970s mansard craze on steroids.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2928/southend2iw9.jpg


Next, here's a bunch of older pictures that I've come across in various books and government documents from the BPL.

an early early design of the Prudential Center, complete with a space age circular convention hall, the hotel to the left of the property, and a 36 story tower as the centerpiece

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/854/pru19582vz2.jpg

Another shot

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/1122/pru19581jg8.jpg

Under construction in 1963 (the top portion is the northwest corner of the old Hynes)

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/2562/pru19631cw3.jpg

A tempura from 1968-ish

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/8384/pru19641ox4.jpg

And the 1989 model for the redevelopment of the complex

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1897/pru19891kk7.jpg


Next, here's a shot looking east from around 1930, with the Longwood Medical area in the foreground, at this point still mostly undeveloped. That somewhat biggish building in the center of the shot (just past the big cleared area) is the original collegiate gothic Emanuel College building

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/6044/1930qt9.jpg

And lastly for now, here is Comm Ave, looking east from the roof of the Fuller (Cadillac) building. The Shell structure to the left still exists. From around 1940

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7325/comm1qx7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[briv]

Bowesst, that photo of the Hancock is absolutely amazing. Youve taken the single most photographed building in Boston and captured it in a completely unique way. Awesome.

kz1000ps, interesting photos. Where the hell did you find all that stuff?

[kz1000ps]

The library in Copley Square. It's amazing what search queries like "prudential center," "boston university architecture," "longwood medical area," or things even more basic like "master plan" or "boston proposals" will turn up. And it's also amazing just how much information is stored inside McKim's and Johnson's walls. Just imagine what I didn't take pictures of.

[bowesst]

Thanks Briv. My favorite thing about that picture is that you can see inside the floor with the counter weight. Every other time you see it, its always completely black.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9012/img5279bj3.jpg

[xec]

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/trixecol/_0611110330S.jpg

[type001]

Thanks bra'

If anyone saw that southpark episode when cartman's dog the bounty hunter there's one word to describe the above shot:

"niceeee"

That episode was awesome!!! Any episode where Cartman has auth-o-ri-tah is awesome :evil:

And yes, "niceeee" is just the way I would describe those pics. I think I will bring my camera to work tomorrow so I can make some contributions too.

[bosdevelopment]

Thanks bra'

If anyone saw that southpark episode when cartman's dog the bounty hunter there's one word to describe the above shot:

"niceeee"

That episode was awesome!!! Any episode where Cartman has auth-o-ri-tah is awesome :evil:

And yes, "niceeee" is just the way I would describe those pics. I think I will bring my camera to work tomorrow so I can make some contributions too.

niceeee

[JoeGallows]

Couldn't feel my fingers after taking this shot tonight; from the "open" Portal Park.

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/ZakimNight.jpg

[Ron Newman]

How long was your exposure?

[JoeGallows]

How long was your exposure?

20 sec. @ f/11. My exposure to the cold was about 45 minutes, however. :)

[castevens]

hahaha :D


I broke my camera taking pictures after a 3 foot snow storm a couple years ago in Beantown...

[bowesst]

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/6649/img0833md7.jpg

[ablarc]

Far from hurting, that ten-story high rise in XEC's picture of Commonwealth Avenue actually enhances the view. Though it may be much higher than its neighbors, that building has the same scale as they. It's a perfect illustration that scale is a function of increment of development and density of detail, rather than height.

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/Lovejoy.jpg

[justin]

Isn't that getting condoized already?

justin

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/Sox-Yanks20097.jpg

[Ron Newman]

What's the date of that photo?

[castevens]

October 17, 2004. Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS vs. Yankees (Big Papi HR)

[Ron Newman]

Thanks. A memorable day indeed.

[castevens]

Incredible game. I took the following picture because for some reason, I *KNEW* we would come back and that the picture would have some meaning...

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/Sox-Yanks20107.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2521/img3292bs5.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2633/img5186ru9.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2503/img0887en8.jpg

[ablarc]

^ Nice shot, bowesst. You've captured the remnants of a onetime iconic Boston set-piece: the way Hancock '47 inflatedly echoes Trinity's massing (base, shaft, pyramid). The effect was really strong before Johnson ruined it with his pompous lump.

(Hancock '71 serves as campanile for both editions.)

[bowesst]

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9620/dscf1071qw6.jpg

[Ron Newman]

Now there's an unfamiliar angle. It took a while to realize what I was looking at in the foreground.

[jass]

I have a similar shot I took in August, but of less quality

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/jamesinclair/IMG_5074.jpg

[bosdevelopment]

Now there's an unfamiliar angle. It took a while to realize what I was looking at in the foreground.

Umass Boston?

[Ron Newman]

And Harbor Point.

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/LongfellowTowers.jpg

[M. Brown]

I have a similar shot I took in August, but of less quality

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/jamesinclair/IMG_5074.jpg

Imagine 115 towering above downtown in that pic. Mmmm.

[bowesst]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8651/img4385ng3.jpg

[DowntownDave]

great shot!

[justin]

Sharp.

justin

[bowesst]

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4677/img5314bo4.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/2186/img2149dg9.jpg

[shiz02130]

From this particular angle, 115 Winthrop Square will perfectly fill in a gap in the skyline.

[bowesst]

http://img303.imageshack.us/img303/3192/img8542ey1.jpg

[kmp1284]

Another superb shot aside from the three tourists who appear to have never seen the city before.

[bowesst]

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/1443/img8558pd3.jpg

[castevens]

You make it look halfway decent :P

[bowesst]

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8454/img5957hj0.jpg

[vanshnookenraggen]

I didn't take this but damn if it ain't cool as hell.

http://www.xrez.com/boston_giga.html

[bowesst]

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/9498/img9472nv8.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/9933/img6831rx2.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5162/copleyof1.jpg

[JoeGallows]

I've been getting lazy.

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/DTX.jpg

[ablarc]

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5162/copleyof1.jpg
Interesting. Shows you how Johnson's backdrop building ruined Trinity's silhouette against the sky.

Also shows you the old Brutalist Sasaki square design with the terraced surface like City Hall Plaza's. It was generally full of bums. And those awful double-lollipop luminaires !

Quite a find.

Where did you get the photo?

What's the year?

[shiz02130]

You can see the new Hancock under construction.

[Mike]

Two great pics.


Joe, wow, that one is a keeper. :shock:

[JoeGallows]

Winter solstice sunset (Thursday, 12/21).

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/sunset.jpg

[castevens]

gorgeous

[bowesst]

http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/4854/img6739vr7.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Also shows you the old Brutalist Sasaki square design with the terraced surface like City Hall Plaza's. It was generally full of bums. And those awful double-lollipop luminaires !

I can't wait for those double-lollopops down at Quincy Market to be replaced.

[Ron Newman]

Copley Square is a good example of Not Getting It Right the first time, but being willing to try again with a different design. City Hall Plaza could have used the same attention.

In Copley's case, the main problem was a plaza level that was several feet below that of any of the surrounding streets.

[kz1000ps]

Not a standout photo in and of itself, but I just got a camera for X-mas (yay!!!), and I'm eager to see what it can do and how it looks up on a forum page!

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7706/img0170dp0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[briv]

Not a standout photo in and of itself, but I just got a camera for X-mas (yay!!!), and I'm eager to see what it can do and how it looks up on a forum page!


Good news if it means you're going to stop posting those lousy camera phone pics. :D

JoeGallows, where did you take that photo from, the roof of the Province St garage? Very nice.

[JoeGallows]

JoeGallows, where did you take that photo from, the roof of the Province St garage? Very nice.

25th floor of One Beacon Street. I'll post some more soon.

[kz1000ps]

Good news if it means you're going to stop posting those lousy camera phone pics. :D

...(mutters something unintelligible to self).....

[kz1000ps]

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2006/img0225zb4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[castevens]

I'm on Co-Op in Rhode Island again this upcoming semester... No more boston pics for a while from me :(

[ablarc]

Interesting pic, kz: lots going on compositionally, all composed of lazy, looping arcs going this way and that but cohering nicely.

Too bad that tan apartment building is missing its cornice. Too bad you have to make a highway bridge look like Auschwitz to keep folks from dropping cinderblocks on passing cars.

[JoeGallows]

A slightly late Christmas present! Could've been better, but since it was handheld, this was the best result. Enjoy!

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/Pano6.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Is anyone else having problems with Joe's image? My computer is going into convulsions trying to load it, which took about 5 minutes to before my mouse responded again. Plus, even though I pressed ctrl-alt-del only once or twice, 30 task manager screens popped up.. ??

Not to discredit the picture, it's fantastic Joe (love the straight shot up Beacon St.), but I think it just might be too big for its own good. Or maybe my computer just sucks.

[bowesst]

Nice shot. I like how you can see Dorchester Heights and BC in the same picture. Those antennas out near Newton look really tall.

[JoeGallows]

but I think it just might be too big for its own good

Yeah, I hadn't realized it was that large. I reduced its size by half, since at 100% in the original, it looked like crap anyway.

Those antennas out near Newton look really tall.

According to the FCC registry (http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistrationSearch.jsp), they're all well over 1000 feet.

I love how on the horizon above Kendall Square, one can see Mt. Wachusett over 40 miles away, and just above the Alewife towers, Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire.

[kz1000ps]

Thanks, Joe. I can now open this thread without fear of getting a blue screen of death.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9564/img0328vz0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kz1000ps]

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8533/img0397vm5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/view.jpg

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/a357a979.jpg

[kz1000ps]

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1840/img0584cd9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kz1000ps]

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7231/img0501sq9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[PerfectHandle]

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1840/img0584cd9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

This is definitely in my top 5 favorite buildings in Boston.

[kz1000ps]

Same here

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7218/img0586yi2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9848/img0585gx4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kz1000ps]

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9327/img0562vc4.jpg

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/BeaconHill.jpg

[kz1000ps]

That picture makes me realize how lame the facade modulation is on the Brigham addition.

EDIT: I see it was done to symmetrically harmonize with the original portion, but in today's state it just looks ungainly.

[kz1000ps]

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5008/img0645qx6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kz1000ps]

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4553/img0825zx8.jpg

[Waldorf]

Boston Wharf Co. sign...

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9881/dscn0936su6.jpg

[kz1000ps]

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2782/img0810ue7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[kz1000ps]

This was taken today. Poor tree is all sorts of confused..

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5730/img0934az9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Corey]

wow!

I miss winter :cry:

[Patrick]

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5633/nightbostonreflectioningx8.jpg

[awood91]

^that is a funny image. I didn't even notice the backwardness of it until I took a second glance. :o

[kz1000ps]

Since when did the South End become a body of water? :wink:

[kz1000ps]

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6443/img0945on9.jpg

[bowesst]

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/320/img2524dt0.jpg

[esp9762]

WHOA! Warp 5, Scotty!

[kz1000ps]

I don't know what the hell's going on in that, but it's sick. Nice, Bowwest.

And this, this is sick in the bad way. Talk about a botched facelift.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4243/img0989np2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bowesst]

I don't know what the hell's going on in that, but it's sick. Nice, Bowwest.

And this, this is sick in the bad way. Talk about a botched facelift.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4243/img0989np2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Is that the corner of Beacon and Fairfield? How were those people allowed to basically destroy that building? Remember the couple that didn't have the right kind of window in the South End? I'd say this is a little worse. Aren't there historical preservation laws that prevent this kind of thing?

[briv]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/briv1/bb.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Actually Bowwest, the building is on Marlborough midblock between Gloucester and Fairfield, and going by this Local Live image (the white building in the middle), the facelift is a whole lot btter than what was there before. Apparently those hideously undersized windows are holdovers..

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3299/zhergfea0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bowesst]

Oh I see. I thought the original building was identical to the one next to it.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/9521/img8627po2.jpg

[goody]

when was that last photo taken? Is it recent?

[bowesst]

No, its from last year.

[xec]

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/trixecol/0612310054.jpg

[KentXie]

^^ If only the Archstone residence could be around the same height as the Millennium Towers. It would have looked a lot sleeky.

[xec]

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/trixecol/0701040021.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Where was that taken?

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4336/img08042vf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[czsz]

When I look at that I can only mournfully utter the words "start over".

[TC]

Keep in mind that this picture is taken almost directly over the Mass Pike.

[xec]

Where was that taken?

Longwood. It's the Blackfan crane reflected by the Harvard research building.

[jass]

I was looking through my summer pictures...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/jamesinclair/stitch1.jpg

[czsz]

Keep in mind that this picture is taken almost directly over the Mass Pike.

Bad excuse. Just because there wasn't a vintage 19th century streetscape there before doesn't mean something better could have been created.

[kz1000ps]

From the '70s

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/927/img12095hd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Random eye candy from the library: this came from a study released in 2002 concerning transportation issues to be addressed through 2000-10

Line thickness denotes traffic volume

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5914/img12114lf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9949/img12109ba.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bosdevelopment]

I, for one, prefer the brutalist style park in front of trinity church over what exists there now, fountain and all. This area appears more of a bona fide gathering place than a suburban green.

Government center still is disgusting but a government center on a mini-scale right in back bay works perfectly.

[Ron Newman]

The Brutalist version of Copley Square didn't work very well. Being depressed from the street level, it became a 'hangout' for street people, and many people didn't feel safe walking through it at night.

The current version facilitates various concert series during the warm months, as well as a farmer's market. People genuinely like being there.

[Waldorf]

Here's a pic from the good ole days...

http://images.nycsubway.org/i23000/img_23357.jpg

[tocoto]

Some crappy shots I took from a plane on a really gray day using my cell.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r226/tocotobucket/buildings/bostonair2007004.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r226/tocotobucket/buildings/bostonair2007003.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r226/tocotobucket/buildings/bostonair2007002.jpg

[Ron Newman]

A green rectangle sticks out from the otherwise gray scene, near the bottom of the last photo. What is it?

[kz1000ps]

^ It's the East Boston Stadium and Recreation Center

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1803/img0559sv7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Ron Newman]

Must be FieldTurf or the like.

[JoeGallows]

Brighton, on that 70 degree day a few weeks ago:

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/porches.jpg

[Corey]

^http://ledzeppelin.alexreisner.com/graphics/covers/pg.jpg :)

[czsz]

Nice; I love the cityscape of Allston/Brighton. If only other parts of Boston/Cambridge/Somerville had been developed so intensely and preserved their streetcar lines. Boston would be like a brick Vienna!

[bowesst]

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7568/006si3.jpg

[justin]

^ Who says Boston doesn't have a great skyline?!

justin

[goody]

^ New Yorkers?

By the way I love the cell pictures, grainy and awesome

[KentXie]

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7568/006si3.jpg
Amazing, 115 Winthrop Street went up already? It looks a lot different than the rendering. I thought it will be all glass.

Jk, great pic of NYC

[castevens]

I know where you were standing:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/n1812665_31834481_3758.jpg

[TheBostonian]

I was just up there a couple weeks ago too.

[z-money]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/zachgreene/P4060185.jpg

[Ron Newman]

Is that from a window at International Place, or One Financial Center?

[bowesst]

Nice shot. Were you in International Place? The Custom House looks fantastic from that angle because you can see the base and the tower. I think it must be one of the most beautiful skyscrapers in the world.

[z-money]

But its not from a window, I had access to the roof. I shot a number of pictures in all directions... I thought the one I posted earlier turned out the best.
I agree about the Custom House, by far my favorite building in the City. I wish I had captured the top of it in this photo.


http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t244/zachgreene/P4060195.jpg

[bowesst]

But its not from a window, I had access to the roof. I shot a number of pictures in all directions... I thought the one I posted earlier turned out the best.
I agree about the Custom House, by far my favorite building in the City. I wish I had captured the top of it in this photo.


These are amazing. You should make a separate thread and post them all.

[Jasonik]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/Jasonik/P1060057.jpg

[Waldorf]

^ wow that actually looks pretty nice. Fort Point channel has all the makings of a great urban canal.

[Merper]

i dunno about "all" the makings. it currently lacks enough public uses on either side of the canal to make it any sort of destination, and all the new construction in the area is forced by Kressel and Vivian into providing so much 'open space' on the canal sides of new construction instead of properly framing the existing open space of the canal. Right now, its really little more than an aquatic barrier/obstacle.

And am I the only one who finds the Intercontinental blase, short, stumpy, generally uninspired, and mostly just awkwardly clunky? To me it looks like a big box store with a glass building on top. Just because its "sharp" and new doesn't make it good.

[bigboybuilder]

Wow I really like this facade of the Intercontinental.
Is it true that the building to the right of the Intercontinental (Brick & Green Glazing) was condemned as a result of faulty pilings?

[Waldorf]

Independence Wharf? I see people in that building all the time.

[KentXie]

I think they should modernize the bridge with one of those wacky design that they have in Europe.

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/FenwayPike.jpg

Me using satellite photography to "prove" that the wall is not 310 feet away from home plate, and also to see how far a home run has to be hit to get it on the Mass Pike

[castevens]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/1f1fb332.jpg

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/EBCH.jpg

[justin]

The fact that I had to stop for a moment and figure out whether that photo is in color or not is a very cool touch. As is the composition. Kudos.

As for the Intercontinental, I'll eat my hat and say I feel the same way as Merper. There are angles of it and details which are cool, and I might even shrug off the massing, but the whole composition of planes is too fussy and illegible,


justin

[briv]

Wow I really like this facade of the Intercontinental.
Is it true that the building to the right of the Intercontinental (Brick & Green Glazing) was condemned as a result of faulty pilings?

I think that was actually the building from which that photo was taken from.

[PerfectHandle]

How far is the Monster then? How many pixels/ft?

[castevens]

Ooo geez, that was from a while ago, and went with about 5 other pictures. Like, in that one, we were assuming that the 302 feet down the right field line was accurate, and from another, we assumed that from home plate to the pitcher's mound was exactly 60 feet and 6 inches, etc, etc.

I think I averaged my monster prediction based on the (1) right field line, (2) home-first base, (3) home-3rd base, and (4) home-pitcher's mound

I think the numbers were fairly close, and averaged out to about 306 feet area

[castevens]

we used ratios (which were based on pixels per foot). So, in that example, 828 pixels = 302 feet (assuming the right field line is accurate).

so,

828/302 = 838/x

x=305.6 feet

[castevens]

And from the Clem's baseball website:

"Officially it was 315 feet from 1936 on, but blueprints and independent estimates suggested 308 feet or less. In 1995 the Red Sox changed the distance marker from "315" to "310.""

http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/FenwayPark.html

[esp9762]

On Google Earth's measuring tool, you can set the length measurements to feet, and just check it that way. You could also see how many meters or smoots it is.

[JoeGallows]

http://fb.xenostarz.com/joestuff/Back%20Bay%20Sunset%20Final.jpg

[castevens]

On Google Earth's measuring tool, you can set the length measurements to feet, and just check it that way. You could also see how many meters or smoots it is.

****

I wouldn't trust that when trying to be accurate to the inch

[esp9762]

I would assume that google used the same "x pixels per foot" idea that you did. I used the google earth tool and got 305.7 feet, which is only a little more than an inch more than you had.

[castevens]

But I was using photoshop to zoom in hundreds of times on the photo and place the first pixel exactly on what I deemed to be "home plate," and using professional pixel counting software (that sounds funny) to count.

They might use the same technology, but without zooming in as far as I was, the margin of error makes the statistics useless. if I place that pixel 1 pixel off, it throws off my numbers a ton.

What it comes down to, is that I just don't trust what THEY consider a foot. Of course, you had a very close number from the Google Earth tool as I did. But the satellite moves up and down, back and forth, and there are millions of pictures taken across the globe. I'm pretty sure there isn't a guy measuring a known distance (like the 60'6" from home plate to the pitcher's mound) on every picture to calibrate accurateness.

[castevens]

As it is, I was assuming that there is no angle from which the satellite photo was taken. Technically, there could be 1-3 pixels of "warning-track field" hidden behind the Green Monster if the picture was taken at a slight angle from the sky. We, who were figuring this out, all agreed that the warning track looked slightly shorter in on the left field line and agree that there probably is some measure of error because of that.

[kz1000ps]

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/4066/img1595rg1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[jass]

Wow.

[Roxxma]

Wow.
I was riding on the Red Line returning from a pilgrimage to Henry's Root Beer Stand in No. Quincy at about the time that the above pic was taken, looking out the train window at the sky over Dot and thinking about the same thing. It was a stunningly beautiful late afternoon.

[Scott]

A day much like today:
http://skyscraperpics.home.comcast.net/snow0061.JPG
http://skyscraperpics.home.comcast.net/snow0064.JPG
http://skyscraperpics.home.comcast.net/snow0068.JPG

No, I wasn't driving...

[bowesst]

No, I wasn't driving...

You were walking?! :lol:

[castevens]

No stupid, he's on the highway. He was obviously on a bicycle.

[castevens]

wow. i've been really sarcastic lately, i should stop. Nahh.

I'll make up for it with a picture I guess.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/castevens12/DSC_0017copy.jpg

[kz1000ps]

Memories of Valentine's Day 2007..

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6425/img1654ft4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1261/img1659nv1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7338/img1673by7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Yes, that's a hot pink ape running for cover