Revere Beach

The other day I had the afternoon off and decided to drive around the north shore without any particular destination and shoot some photos. Usually I stick to using Fujifilm, either 160C or 160S, but was interested in shooting with Kodak Portra film just for the sake of comparison. What a difference it makes. These photos were shot using Portra 160 VC and the saturation and color accuracy are miles above Fuji.

I stopped at Revere Beach, which was completely deserted for being the middle of December.




a tribute to the Bechers...

cardiac

I recently went through some medical tests that involved, among other things, having a heart monitor strapped to my body for a day. Despite the inconvenience it made for an interesting photograph...

East Boston studies

I often find it hard to resist photographing urban landscapes. Recently I have been exploring the neighborhood of East Boston, located just across Boston harbor from downtown Boston, connected by a subway line, two tunnels but still psychologically separated from the rest of the city by this natural barrier.

The neighborhood is also the site of my studio and thus easily at my disposal for exploring some of the more formal qualities of urban landscape. This exploration has ultimately been leading me to focus on places where nature and urban space seem to collide. East Boston has several new- and quite well designed- parks that have opened in the past few years but still remains pockmarked with abandoned lots and fenced off docks that crookedly lead towards the water.

The downtown skyline is also a prominent feature of the neighborhood, looming in the near distance as a reminder that it is part of a larger metropolis. Both of these things- the collision of nature and urban space, and the downtown skyline- feature prominently in these images.