Here is a short video of Animal Rescue League of Boston personnel, along with City of Boston Animal Control, relocating Boston’s most famous pair of same sex swans, Romeo & Juliet. Anthony Fabiano, a City Animal Control officer and Bill Tanguay and Brian O’Connor of ARL Boston, took only a few minutes to wrap up the two fowl friends. See my photos below and my short Herald video here.
South Boston Bark Park’s annual Halloween party went off without a hitch yesterday, prior to the region’s surprise snowfall. Prizes were given to the most creative looking dog. The Bark Park is located at the intersection of Columbia road and Day Boulevard. In my top photo, from left, Tucker and his buddy Kiely, dressed as a lion, frolicked at the party. My bottom photo shows sisters, Nora and Cocoa.
Thanks to a Twitter Tweet that I had monitored, I was one of only 2 media photographers at Occupy Boston when Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick showed up for a “quiet” visit. There were no tv cameras and only one or two reporters on hand for the unannounced visit. Here are my photos below.
I photographed the magic hour of Monday night’s sunset. To the left of me was the moon and a departing Logan jetliner, and to the right of me was a high altitude transatlantic jet exiting the US east coast. The origin of that flight is unknown, but definitely not Logan.
Did you look up and notice how pronounced these jet contrails were today. Check my photo below.
Boston firefighter Michael Browne, in top photo, checks on an injured Cooper Hawk that caused quite a
scene this afternoon outside of the Langham Hotel on Boston’s Franklin St. The Hawk, at one point, was
perched atop a Langham awning. The Hawk was removed by Boston animal control. See my photos below.
My photos below show the 7th annual Hub On Wheels citywide bike ride, which filled Storrow Drive westbound this morning. According to the sponsoring group’s website, hubonwheels.org, (HOW) was founded in 2005 with three goals: create an important civic event, showcase Boston’s neighborhoods and parks, and raise money for important causes. The routes looped through Downtown, the Back Bay, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester,and Southie.
I was photographing the 2nd of 3 deliberately set fires in the Pratt street area of Allston when neighbors pointed firefighters toward another fire that was burning. I ran with the firefighters, the arson squad and Boston police arson detective James Freeman toward the rear of an Ashford street home. Heavy fire was pushing out from the car and starting to ignite the shingles on the side of the structure. My photos below show Detective James Freeman and firefighters stretching hoses to the fire. The last photo shows Jeff Intinarelli, as he checks his totaled, still smoldering car. In all, this morning’s 3 arson fires destroyed a total of 5 cars. This makes a total of 8 deliberate burns in the span of 7 weeks in this small area of Allston. Over 10 cars have been destroyed. Check out my photos and Herald reporter John Zaremba’s story at bostonherald.com
I used an 800mm lens for last night’s setting sun, seen from Bayswater street in East Boston. I then turned the camera around and photographed this jet lineup, with Cape Air leading the big boys.
I snapped this photo today, September 11, 2011, showing Boston firefighters from Ladder 17 and Engine 7, standing at attention at the exact moment, ten years later, of the second World Trade tower collapse.
