Trees, Redux

These are the companion photos to the Droidography tree photos I posted yesterday from my phone. I'm intrigued by the capabilities of my smartphone, including being able to blog directly, on-site, from the phone, but nothing beats the images from the 5D. The light wasn't exactly what I was hoping for - a little murky - but I had a good time wandering the hill at Larz Anderson with Pandora Radio - slightly mystical Irish trad, including Loreena McKennit - being piped in via my phone. What a time we live in: a phone that plays music, and with which I can take (and edit) photos and post to Blogger and G+. Oh, and I can also use it to make calls, but who's got time to talk to anyone anymore?

Boston Faces

I love faces and I love street photography, all of the above having been greatly enhanced via my return to using an older - and for years all-but-forgotten - 50mm/1.4 lens, the speed of which, when combined with the amazing 5D, is everything I ever dreamed of back in my SpotmaticF/Tri-x/darkroom days (days of antiquity). Back then, all I wanted was longer lenses and all the latest technology, and now that I've got all that I am realizing that I actually had everything I needed, lo those forty years ago. I'm also now blatantly and unabashedly shooting almost all of my personal stuff in BW, BW being pure drop, as far as I'm concerned.

Not only am I enjoying the shooting in the near-dark capabilities of this combo, but I love the smaller size of the 50, which is minimally off-putting and easier to keep always-ready on my shoulder, but the short focal length forces me up a little closer to my subject - an edgier way of shooting, to be sure - and the wide open apertures make for wicked awesome out-of-focus backgrounds. I feel as though I'm home again, following a long and circuitous (and very educational) journey.

These are from a recent foray into downtown Boston; from Quincy Market and Haymarket, all ultimately on my way to play a little Irish music with my friends at the Littlest Bar.