Groups/Flight

A flock of Canada geese take off from Paper Goods Pond, catching the golden light of the the setting sun as they go.
Camera: Canon EOS T3, Lensbaby Muse Processing: PSE (just minor adjustments)

Jovial/Enormous

At Whole Foods on Saturday, this jovial fellow was showing off the enormous halibut he was about to fillet. Halibut always reminds me of the summer of 1976, which I spent as a medical student doing an externship under the guidance of a family doc in Machias, Maine. It is a small town on the coast not far from the Canadian border, about as distant and foreign in anyway one can conceive from Brooklyn, New York, where I'd been living and going to medical school. I was boarding in a room over Joyce's Lobster House. My boyfriend (now husband of 32 years) came up to visit me. He had been born and brought up on the East Side of Manhattan in an Irish blue collar neighborhood, so this was exotic territory for him, too. We had dinner at the Joyce's the second night he was there. He ordered the hal-i-but. The formidable Joyce stalked out of the kitchen and announced to him, "Hawl'but? You don't want the hawl'but." I can't remember what Joyce told him that he wanted...but that's what he had.

Camera: iPhone 4s Processing: Hipstamatic, Dynamic Light, PhotoToaster

Treasure/Art

The New Britain Museum of American Art is an unexpected treasure in a weary post-industrial city. The first museum in the country to feature strictly American art, it exhibits works from the colonial period through the present. John and I are members, so we often stop in on for a few hours on a Sunday afternoon.

Top photo taken with iPhone 4s, processed with Simply B&W and BleachBypass
Bottom Photo taken with Canon EOS T3 with Lensbaby Muse, processed with PES

Travel/Iconic

The iconic white steeple of a New England Congregational church.
Camera: Canon EOS T3, Lensbaby Muse Processing: PSE

Fun/Chaos

The granddudes are theoretically cleaning up the Legos after they dumped them all over the living room. Naturally, Mamo (that's me) found a way to make it fun--use a toy dump truck!

Camera: iPhone 4s Processing: a few apps including TiltShift Generator...maybe also PhotoToaster, Dynamic Light, Bleach Bypass, and XProcess. I kinda lost track.

Objects/How I see, myself

How I see? Myself, I need these glasses. Without them, the world is just a soft, hazy blur. With them, I can see crisp detail and edges and glitter. I can see individual leaves and blades and stones, instead of a uniform fuzzy green or grey. I can read signs; and I can read books without bringing them right up to my face. AND I can take pictures! Without my glasses, photography would be impossible--I am way too nearsighted to be able to see what I might want to point a camera at with out them.

Camera: iPhone 4s Processing: Hipstamatic, Magic Hour

Outdoors/Power

Even a relatively small waterfall, like the one that cascades over the dam that forms Paper Goods Pond, is tremendously powerful.

Camera: Canon EOS T3 with Lensbaby Muse Processing: PSE