"There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." James Thurber
About Today in Boston: We keep hearing that people miss our cover photos that ran for years in the Back Bay Sun. That assignment was to provide a photo that showed what the week was like in the neighborhood. Often the photos illustrated favorite quotations. Today in Boston is an occasional offering to our BostonZest readers featuring photos along the same theme but taken wherever we happen to be.
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Walking by the Christian Science Center on this cool weekend, we watched this young man enjoy playing in the fountain all alone.
This plaza is a great spot to hone your photography skills. Normally the area is full of people enjoying a cooling dash through the spray. Yesterday a few spectators sat along the wall and everyone else gave the water a wide berth.
While there were no food trucks in place on this weekend, it is also one of our favorite food truck destinations.
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Walking by the Christian Science Center on this cool weekend, we watched this young man enjoy playing in the fountain all alone.
This plaza is a great spot to hone your photography skills. Normally the area is full of people enjoying a cooling dash through the spray. Yesterday a few spectators sat along the wall and everyone else gave the water a wide berth.
While there were no food trucks in place on this weekend, it is also one of our favorite food truck destinations.
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Waiting for a traffic light to change, I turned and looked up to see this glowing morning light, filtering through leafy branches and painting the stones of the Church Court tower with golden hues.
I was out doing news photography at the time. So the lesson here is to stop, look up, look down, look across, and take a moment to see what's around you. You could be rewarded with a lovely memory or a photo that pleases you.
This and other favorite photos from our work here and for other publications are available on our gallery site.
Waiting for a traffic light to change, I turned and looked up to see this glowing morning light, filtering through leafy branches and painting the stones of the Church Court tower with golden hues.
I was out doing news photography at the time. So the lesson here is to stop, look up, look down, look across, and take a moment to see what's around you. You could be rewarded with a lovely memory or a photo that pleases you.
This and other favorite photos from our work here and for other publications are available on our gallery site.
Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott (January 17–September 13, 2015) traces Parks’ return to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas and then to other Midwestern cities, to track down and photograph each of his childhood classmates. On view in the MFA’s Art of the Americas Wing, the exhibition’s 42 photographs were from a series originally meant to accompany a Life magazine photo essay—but for reasons unknown, the story was never published. The images depict the realities of life under segregation in 1950—presenting a rarely seen view of everyday lives of African-American citizens in the years before the Civil Rights movement began in earnest.
We Say:
This has been on our calendar since we first read about it. We have so much to learn from this multi-talented man.
Make this exhibition more enjoyable by doing your homework before attending.
The MFA gives you some tools for learning about an exhibition like this on it's website. We often rely on the press releases they send out to understand why a particular subject was selected and about the people and organizations that make an exhibition possible. Here's a link to the press release for Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott.
And, if you want to attend the exhibition at a time when there is something special scheduled around the topic, you'll find a "More Events" button near the top of that page.
We've also taken advantage of the Boston Public Library's resources on Gordon Parks and are reading some of his poetry and his memoir.
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We've been following the colors of fall as they tiptoe their way into the city. Yankee Magazine's foliage map now has our area shown as peak color. Our guess is that, here in the city, you'll still see some stunning scenes into November. We're still seeing lots of green as a backdrop to those early show-off trees.
Here are a few links that will prove useful for planning a leaf peeping excursion.
Please tell us where your favorite foliage spots are and let us know if you have a resource to share. You can add it in the comments below or send it via Twitter.
This is a comprehensive site with a discussion forum, photo galleries, festivals, multi-media, webcams, predictions, reports, touring ideas, and safaris. All this with a big dose of expert tips on how to do everything from catching peak foliage to practising the art of getting lost.
We'll update with any new sites we find. Get out there and enjoy the peak of foliage season!
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We've been following the colors of fall as they tiptoe their way into the city. Yankee Magazine's foliage map now has our area shown as peak color. Our guess is that, here in the city, you'll still see some stunning scenes into November. We're still seeing lots of green as a backdrop to those early show-off trees.
Here are a few links that will prove useful for planning a leaf peeping excursion.
Please tell us where your favorite foliage spots are and let us know if you have a resource to share. You can add it in the comments below or send it via Twitter.
This is a comprehensive site with a discussion forum, photo galleries, festivals, multi-media, webcams, predictions, reports, touring ideas, and safaris. All this with a big dose of expert tips on how to do everything from catching peak foliage to practising the art of getting lost.
We'll update with any new sites we find. Get out there and enjoy the peak of foliage season!
Thanks to everyone who hops over to Amazon from here to do their shopping. We appreciate your support. It doesn't cost you any more but they put a few coins in our tip jar.
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
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