urban

Break free

November 9, 2018January 16, 2022Hannoverautumn, black, blue, brown, buildings, clouds, fall, fence, golden, house, indian summer, iPhone, leaf, light, lines, nature, neighborhood, sky, sun, sunlight, trees, urban, white, yellow

Break free and fly away…

Stagnation

October 29, 2013January 18, 2022Bostonadvertisement, AF-S VR Nikkor 70-300mm, architecture, autumn, brick wall, bricks, buildings, change, facades, fall, gray, grey, light, Nikon D5000, old, orange, paint, rear, reflections, shadows, sundown, sunset, turquoise, urban, windows, yellow

Change ahead?

Surrender

October 1, 2013January 18, 2022CambridgeAdidas, adolescence, AF-S VR Nikkor 70-300mm, autumn, black, cable tie, Chuck Taylor All Stars, Chucks, Converse, fall, folk, folklore, green, house, leaves, light, Nikon D5000, power lines, running, shadows, shoe flinging, shoe laces, shoe tossing, shoes, sneakers, sports, sun, sunlight, tie wrap, trees, urban, white, wood, zip tie

Didn’t know that shoe tossing/flinging is considered folk sports…

Diversity

July 29, 2013January 20, 2022Bostonbirds, black, Boston Common, city, Columbia livia, different, dove, grass, gray, green, group, individuals, iPhone, literally, park, pigeon, street, summer, urban, white

This group of feral pigeons (Columbia livia), aka city or street pigeons, literally consists of individuals.

There yet?

July 18, 2013January 20, 2022Charlestownbalcony, beer, blue, bricks, car, clouds, douglas adams, flower pots, glow, iPhone, light, neon sign, parking, parking lot, porch, pub, Radeberger, red, reflections, restaurant at the end of the universe, sign, sky, tavern at the end of the world, urban, windows, wood, yellow

Not the Restaurant at the End of the Universe…

No longer used

May 25, 2013January 20, 2022Bostonblack, bricks, coin phone, escalator, forgotten, Green line, guitar case, Hynes Convention Center, iPhone, left, old, outlived, pay phone, scrap, silver, stones, T, train station, urban, useful, wall, yellow

Those two things seem to have outlived their usefulness…

Read me

April 18, 2013January 22, 2022BostonAF-S DX VR Nikkor 16-85mm, American flag, blue, Boston Phoenix, bus stop, fire hydrant, free, Hynes Convention Center, Improper Bostonian, magazine, metro, Newbury Street, news, newspaper, Nikon D5000, old, past, plastic, publish, read, red, relic, shadows, stand, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, street, urban, USA, yellow

Free newspapers at the Hynes Convention Center bus stop. Unfortunately, the Boston Phoenix ceased publishing last month, so its stand joins the other relics from the past.

Overhead

April 17, 2013January 22, 2022Cambridgearchitecture, blossom, blue, bricks, canopy, Carr Lynch Sandell Inc, Central Square, CLS, colored, colorful, geometric, glass, graffiti, house, metal, Nikon Coolpix p310, panels, purple, red, sky, spring, tinted, tree, urban, visual highlight, walkway, wall, yellow

Visiting Central square is a visual highlight due to the colorful architectural design of the bus shelters and the canopy over this walkway. Credit for the design goes to Carr, Lynch …

Urban decay

April 8, 2013January 22, 2022Jamaica PlainAF-S DX VR Nikkor 16-85mm, banister, concrete, decay, grass, green, leaves, metal, Nikon D5000, old, rust, shadows, spring, stair rail, staircase, stairs, stones, trees, urban

Rusty railing of an abandoned staircase.

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