Logan tower is aglow in red during tonight’s sunset. Earlier this evening, there was a rare visit by a Saudi Arabian 747SP. A moonrise, a few days ago, is also seen below. Thanks for viewing my photos.
Posts Tagged ‘Boston’
A fiery sunset at Boston Logan, a cool moon, and an interesting visitor to the airport
by markadmin Posted: Saturday, 9/1/2012
Roasting a pig on Commonwealth Ave.: Welcome back Boston students
by markadmin Posted: Saturday, 9/1/2012I found Stephen Frost, a returning MIT senior from Phoenix, on Commonwealth Ave. roasting a pig as he and his fellow students moved in to the Chi Phi house.
Fun in the skies over the Atlantic, with Cape Air. Part 2, the return.
by markadmin Posted: Friday, 8/31/2012Before reading this post, it may help to read part 1. An interesting ending to my trip was a last minute switch to a different runway because of a jumbo jet coming up on a rear faster than air traffic expected. We almost reached the Winthriop shoveling, just before the threshold of runway 27, when we veered sharply to the right and flew over Winthrop Shore Drive and then banked left to connect with runway 22Left. Please see my photos below of my return flight to Boston, from Nantucket, on Cape Air airlines. Thanks as always.
Fun in the skies over the Atlantic, with Cape Air. Part 1, the departure.
by markadmin Posted: Friday, 8/31/2012So you don’t think you could have fun in a “puddle jumping” Cessna 402 that seats under 10 passengers? Think again. I flew to Nantucket Tuesday evening and flew home to Boston last evening. Nantucket was great, but the flights, to and from, came in a surprising 2nd place in the fun category. My travel partner and I departed Logan at 7:25pm on Tuesday evening, on Cape Air airlines. We took off toward the east and banked south over Winthrop’s Deer Island as we headed toward Ack, the Nantucket airport code letters. Our pilot, like a precision field goal kicker, “split the uprites” of two thunderstorms, one near Plymouth and the other east of Plymouth. A beautiful, near full moon also greeted us after clearing the storms. Please see my photos below.
Mammoth Adam Sandler indoor filming facility comes to Swampscott
by markadmin Posted: Tuesday, 6/12/2012It may seem like the same Swampscott skyline as one enters the town on Lynn Shore Drive, but look closer. What is it? Wow! Looming over beachfront homes like a giant butterfly, there it is. What is it? This is the giant indoor filming facility where Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups 2 will be shooting their pool scenes. That’s right, an in ground pool has been planted inside the structure, which sits just off the Swampscott football field at Blocksidge Field.
I was not fully prepared to photograph this storm as I did not have all of my camera gear with me.
This was photographed with a Leica M9 and a 35mm lens, hand-held at 1/125th of a second at F11 at 80 ISO.
The lightning is NOT striking near the building. That speck near the bolt is a bird.
Man robs Cambridge bank, hops on the MBTA, and is pinched by the money bag’s GPS.
by markadmin Posted: Wednesday, 5/30/2012I had just left one photo assignment and was headed to another when the Inman square branch of the Cambridge Savings Bank was allegedly robbed. The calm and cool Cambridge police dispatcher monitored and broadcasted positions of the perpetrator, aided by a GPS unit that was purportedly placed inside the money bag by the bank. The trail went from the Inman Sq. area toward the Somerville police station where Somerville and Cambridge police stopped MBTA bus #0658 on the 91 Route. There he was, and there I was. See my photos below and Boston Herald colleague Richard Weir’s story here.
Boston Supermoon. Day 2, no clouds, one departing jet and one VERY yellow moon.
by markadmin Posted: Sunday, 5/6/2012The moon rose tonight at 8:53pm. This was photographed at 9:17pm as a departing jet from Logan took off from runway 15 (its back to Eastie and its front pointing toward Hull) I was in a parking garage in Medford’s Wellington Circle. The moon was very yellow and reddish. My camera was set at 2500 asa/iso, and my settings were 1/160th of a second at F8. I used an 800mm lens with a 1.4x extender, making the lens a whopping 1120mm. I used a Canon EOS 1D Mark 111. The photo at the bottom was a “just missed” a few minutes before the “hit.” The problems I encountered led to a soft photo, that is, not as sharp as one would hope. When the moon is so “young” in its infancy, there is a lot of moisture and earth pollution in between it and my lens. Also, the jet is moving very fast and I am only at 1/160th of a second due to the limitations of such a large lens. All in all I was happy to have watched this.
There it is. Captured at 10:25pm, just a few short minutes ago. No photoshop, no trickery. Persistent low clouds over Boston, passing in front of the moon at a high rate of speed, somehow produced this photo. Stop the damn presses 🙂
The fog rolls in at East Boston’s Constitution Beach. My hopes to photograph the cool moon tonight were dashed as a fog bank rolled in, getting progressively worse by the minute. These photos were snapped at 7:39pm, 7:43pm, 7:46pm, and 7:49pm respectively. They show just how potent the fog was, getting worse every minute. In fact, Logan airport arriving jets were warned of the fog and some switched to a category 3 landing, which is defined as a landing attempt in runway visibility less than 1200ft. A more heightened strand of an instrument landing system. Keep in mind, I never left my position and this is a 10 minute frame. All in all, a disappointing night.
