Photo of the Day, Boston Style - Part Deux

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Fort Hill is a water standpipe (i.e. watertower). Pipe was put in as part of the first expansion of the water supply out to what was then known as Long Lake. Long Lake sounded too boring so the body of water was renamed Lake Cochituate. Pipe went up around 1850. Cochituate was inadequate within 20 years so Wachusett was created out in Clinton and 50 years after that came Quabbin. I would love to see the ENF on building Quabbin today.
 
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Cleaning out my hard drive, I came across these similar views.... Boston:

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And NYC, looking at Jersey City:

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Boston.com - RAW Blog July 24, 2009
August contest
August contest theme: Architecture

Posted by Teresa Hanafin, Boston.com Staff July 24, 2009 12:54 PM

We're about to celebrate our one-year anniversary here at RAW, and we're thrilled with the success of the site -- and how so many of you have jumped in to participate, share your photos and tips, and make RAW what it is today.

I was thinking to myself that we all should be really proud of what we've built here ... and then it hit me: The theme for August should be Architecture -- photos of the built environment. Ah ha!

In addition, our friend Ponder This and others have suggested a contest in which the photos must be taken within the month of the competition. I've always thought that was a good idea to try as a way of getting us all out and about, so let's add that as a wrinkle this month.

So just two rules for August:

1. The photos entered in the contest must be of a human-made structure -- no natural architecture, no matter how stunning the Cliffs of Moher may be.

2. You have to take the photo in August of 2009. Make sure your camera's date and time settings are correct!

Other than that, anything goes. Your shots can be of interior or exterior architecture. Shoot old buildings or new buildings, commercial, industrial, houses, bridges, signs, fences, staircases, ceilings, arches, courtyards, public squares, fountains, statues.

Take landscapes that put the architecture in a large context, or close-ups of one small but fascinating detail. Shoot wide-angle or tight.

Include people for perspective or explanation, or not.

Shoot during the day or at night. Experiment with lighting and shadows -- both can lend drama to architecture.

The 4 Flickr tags this month are:
boston.com
contest
august2009
architecture

Here's more about how to enter.
 
Wow, very cool! Glad to see the "fog" machine is still working and the light sculptures...very nice!
 
vanshnookenraggen said:
Don't get fooled, Jersey City is just as boring and inhuman as Kendall Sq.

Haha, for all the times I've stood on the BPC waterfront and looked at JC, not once have I thought, "gee, I wanna go over there and explore!"
 
Where is that?

And if we have any traffic engineers or construction people here....does that make any sense?
 
Where is that?

Devonshire Street between the old statehouse and the Natl. Park Service office. It is from last summer, I imagine it was associated with the Blue Line Station work but I'm not sure--its probably gone by now.
 
what no one has a wallet sized dig safe color code card? You'll never look at spray paint on the road the same way again...


 
Wish I had a better camera to snap this with, plus not the clearest day.
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Granite Links, N Quincy. If my camera was decent, there'd be some spectacular pictures. I might try again on a clearer day.
In person, views are amazing of not just the city but the islands and the surrounding area.
 
Someone did a really nice picture of Boston for the banner of SSC today. Did anyone of you take that shot and is there a higher res?
 
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