Providence Statehouse

Providence Statehouse - Click image to view panorama

My friend Rob and I took a short photographic journey to downtown Providence this evening and I got this shot of the statehouse while Rob was shooting time lapse of the traffic in front of the mall on Francis Street. The sky was fantastic with low fast moving clouds that were illuminated by the city lights. I shot this HDR image using my Nikon D300s with a Nikon 10.5mm lens on a 360Precision Absolute tripod head. This image is composed of 63 exposures.

Choppin' Letters

Carved Sign - Click for larger image

I carved this sign for my friend Josh.  He had found the piece of driftwood shaped like an 'S' on his honeymoon in the Pacific Northwest so I got a piece of cedar and chopped this out for him. It is going to be a present for his family.

Occupy Providence

Occupy Providence - Click to view first panorama

Well I had to go down myself to see what the fuss was all about.  Every radio show and television show I tells me something different about these protests, so I decided to go find out for myself. As it turn out the park is more full of trash and tents than people.  The folks I encountered were quite pleasant and seemed to be into the theme of things but I couldn't get a real solid answer as to what the protest was actually about.  The best answer I got was that they are protesting all the corporate greed that has developed since World War II in the post war industrial complex and that all the greed is on Wall Street. Like I said I didn't get a real clear answer. I met a man named Robert - the one with the drum in pano 3 - he said he has set up camp here and comes down when he is not working on a project. He is a film maker and documentary maker from Charleston.  Most of the tents were empty and there were only twenty or so people in the park. Poor old Ambrose Burnside had all sorts of things taped to him and his horse.. I wonder if anyone there even knows who he was.

Occupy Panorama 1

Occupy Panorama 2

Occupy panorama 3

And here is one just for fun... as I was walking back to my car I did some shooting and shot this HDR shot (way too overdone) on Orange Street and to my surprise it came out mostly orange!!

Inside Outside Panorama

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Dee's Place, East Providence

Dee's Place, East Provience, RI - Click for larger view

Another dawn shot. This is Dee's Place in East Providence, a great place for breakfast. My good friend Christopher and I have been meeting here at 6:00 am once a week for the past 15 years or more.  I highly recommend this place for breakfast, right at the base of the Washington Bridge on Warren Avenue.

Early Morning McAllister Tugs in Providence

McAllister Tugs at Promet Marine - Click image for larger view

I was out early this morning before work shooting the McAllister Tugs in Providence.  As I reached the Tug terminal in Providence these two, the McAllister Sisters and the Nancy McAllister, were underway. One tug was towing the other. It was a bit too dark to shoot them as I was getting a lot of motion blur, so I decided to go down to the Providence Piers and lo and behold the same two tugs were arriving at Promet Marine. I would guess that one needed repairs. I got this shot as they were entering the slip.  I shot this several ways including an HDR shot, but this single, non-HDR was my favorite.  I love shooting tugboat art. . . .  ISO 250, f4.5, .5 second exposure, 95mm - on tripod

More from our western trip of 2010

Golden Gate Bridge

Below are several links to 360º panoramas I have shot in the past and never developed.  I shot these in April and May of 2010 while traveling out west. This series will start in San Francisco and head to Sedona... and I still have many more to develop. Some of these interactive panoramas are very high resolution and may take a minute to load.

1. Golden Gate Bridge

2. View of San Francisco from Twin Peaks 1

3. View of San Francisco 2

4. Yet another view from Twin Peaks

5. Jacuzzi Vineyard

6. Hiking around Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite 1

7. Hiking around Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite 2

8. Hiking around Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite 3

9. Hiking around Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite 4 This is one of my favorites

10. Beef Jerky Stop in the desert Fixing lunch

11.  Desert in Bloom - Somewhere out in the desert

12. Las Vegas Sunset

13. Las Vegas 2

14. Hoover Dam from the parking lot

15. Bell Rock, Sedona AZ

16. Cathedral Rocks -- this one has some strange coloration-- I malfunctioned

17. Oak Creek 

18. Oak Creek,and Cathedral Rocks Sedona

Joseph Conrad, Mystic Seaport

The Joseph Conrad, Mystic Seaport -- Click image to view panorama

Today we went to Mystic Seaport in Mystic Connecticut and toured the village and the ships.  In this shot Nana is taking a picture of Grace on the deck of the Joseph Conrad. Another view of the Seaport. These are 360º interactive panoramas - to navigate the panorama click and drag your mouse or use the controls at the bottom of the screen.

Cape Cod cranberry time

The Harvester - Click image for larger view

This past weekend we visited friends on Cape Cod and hiked through cranberry country and it was harvest time. Harvesting cranberries is fascinating to watch and it is all in slow motion. The colors are amazing as well.

Pumphouse and Cranberries - Click image for larger view

This bog was huge and the wind was assisting the harvest as all of the cranberries were blown to one side of the flooded bog.

Pumphouse - Click image for larger view

This pump house was operating and had two engines running inside - one Ford and one Chevy - both were operating on propane.

Yellow Capped Mushroom - Click image for larger view

Although I have posted this one already on Facebook I thought I would post it again here. We passed many mushrooms during our walk but this one stood out like a beacon.

Meredith C. Reinauer in East Providence

Meredith C. Reinauer - Click to view larger image

Another image from our evening cruise up to Providence. I love tugs and all working boats and got this shot just after sunset of the composite unit of the Meredith C. Reinauer and her barge at the fuel docks in East Providence. That is Providence in the background just across the Seekonk River. As with all my photos, prints are available.

Ray Pat

Ray Pay nearing Pawtuxet Cove

The other day as we were doing a short sunset cruise out of the cove, Ray Pat came cruising in. I believe that this is a 1955 Chris Craft Commander, a boat I have always loved. When I was about 10 years old I built a model of one of these and it sat on my bedroom shelf for years.  I always pictured Ernest Hemingway out fishing in the Gulf on one of these beautiful boats and dreamed of the day that I would go to sea.