Here are some photos from the solar eclipse. Since I was in the Boston area, I didn’t get to see a total eclipse, but the partial eclipse was still pretty cool. You don’t want to know how many filters I put on my lens to protect my sensor and eyes, though. Obviously, these pictures are from August, but I think they work pretty well now, since they’re so spooky and Halloween is coming up soon.
It rained a lot this summer. Fortunately for me, my bike saddlebags are waterproof. See the previous day’s photo a day here.
Swollen, 2024, 13 x 17” Acrylic, mixed media art waste (including watercolor, spray paint, paper, resin, and lightbulbs) on canvas K.C. MacPhail and Ray Bernoff “Swollen” expresses our experience with pain caused by chronic inflammation, marrying Ray’s waste-based art practice with K.C.’s portraiture to create something swollen and suffocating. The subject is exhausted, resigned to…
I recently went to my first demolition derby.I found it shocking, obscene, and fun. The first collision scared me, but by the end I found the less violent impacts almost routine.
The Arlington Reservoir recently closed for the season. I went to the last day, where dogs are allowed in the water. I wrote about the reservoir, and a little about the dogs, on Icons of Arlington.
My mom maintains a number of bird feeders, which attract the local wildlife. We get a lot of squirrels, but also a lot of dark-eyed juncos and house sparrows. The juncos are the gray-and-dun ones who look like a half-dipped Easter egg, and the house sparrows are varying shades of brown. On the flashier end…
Here’s some more work for Tufts Dining, this time of the annual Under the Sea event. I teamed up with Yang Lowe, a new photography intern, who styled some plates of seafood for me.