Wow, they say my Texas accent sounds strange, I guess it relative to the geography. Great people though, always willing to take the time out to give extended directions and share a smile.

 

Took me a day to learn to navigate the transit system, pretty cool way of not having to deal with traffic and $35.00 overnight parking and the only thing stranger than the Boston accent are these folks driving habits. I stopped in some little town on the way from Maine Coast, lady said ” watch yourself,  those people make up their own rules down there,” I thought yea right, I’ve drove rush hour Dallas. She was right, Imagine the same Dallas rush Hour traffic in a place condensed to about 1/3rd of the real estate. 

Needless to say a lot of people walk, and I do mean walk, in some areas it’s still the fastest way to get around.

 

Generally the first place I visit in a new town is the Bars, good beer, good light, generally means great photo ops, and kinda takes on the personality of that part of town, not to mention it’s only second to a barber shop for gathering info.  The famous Cheers bar was first on my list, and it was only three blocks from my hotel, bonus! Sat in Normans chair at the bar, felt like I had entered the movie set of many yesteryears, thats how authentic the show was done, and what a great way to start seeing Boston.

 

Yea, they are clichés shots……….

 

 

……. But as Bob Krist said, “they are cliches for a reason, they work.”

 

 

……Then on the other hand, (non cliches) are my favorite. Boston is home to the largest Apple store in the U.S., and second largest in the world. The glass staircase drove me totally nuts trying to find the angle, kinda like a guy tying to find a corner in a square room. So on one end of town, we had the best of the new world and on the other we had the best of the old.

 

 

Beating the heat, or at least the locals say it’s hot, to me it seemed like a Texas norther, I mean it doesn’t really get hot till we see a hundred in Texas, and I don’t believe it ever got over 80 here.

 

 

So it seems it’s the same all over the world, it’s just about the people and rejoicing in life, and no matter how many times I shoot it, it never gets old.

 

 

We’ve all heard about keeping it weird in Austin, It has roots in Boston I believe.

 

 

One of may favorite parts of the whole trip was the whale watching tour, yes I said tour and as I have said before that I hate the commercialism and speed of tours for travel photography, sometimes just seeing the thing you want to photograph and admire on a time budget, a tour is a must, hard light and all.

 

 

Have to say just the visual alone of these big graceful animals was worth the trip! There’s not to much that I shoot that I have a problem putting my camera to face in fear of missing something.

As a long time friend says ” these images are burned into the emulsion sheet of the mind forever.”

 

Coming…getting the most out of tour photography