Shortest day of the year 12/21/10

Congratulations on making it to the shortest day of the year everyone. It only gets better from here. It will be spring before we know it.
I had a few ideas for a Holiday card for my clients this year and I thought I'd share them.
My good friend Joe helped me again this year. (thanks Joe) First we wrapped him in xmas lights and went to a abandoned corner near Davis Sq. to make a picture about a person lost/overwhelmed in the strange spirit of the Holiday. I wasn't happy with the image all said and done so we went into the studio a week later for the boxing glove photo. I thought this represented the way the holidays snuck up on me this year (this was the one I ended up printing). The last portrait I just thought was a funny outtake.
Happy Holidays to anyone reading this.

A walk in the woods.

Thanks to a tiny tick for my recent week of 103 degree fevers.
The photos of the walk in the woods a few posts back gifted me with a deer tick that gave me Lyme disease.
Here is my t-shirt idea. Anyone?

Boston Magazine December Issue

Here are a couple photographs from a shoot last month of Rich Minor of Google.

D, Tech Review, iWalk, Birthday and Fall light.

Art Show.

Nice fall light



Birthday. My little lady is 4 now. Time flies. We rented a jumping castle and invited neighbors and classmates. She was glowing.

The thing just fit in our little Somerville acres.

Thanksgiving walk.

D's friend Charlotte

Cyrus. Best ball chaser, paws down. I could throw them until my arm fell off. He would come back for more.

Couple outtakes from a recent shoot for Technology Review magazine.
Matthew Meyerson. His lab is using genetic sequencing to identify cancer. Very interesting and nice person.


I also shot some photos of the heads of a local company called iWalk started by Hugh Herr.
They are developing a new kind of robotic foot called the PowerFoot BiOM. Very passionate people and an amazing product.

Pictures of the new "project"

1959-61 Moto Guzzi Lodola 235 GT
Impulsive eBay purchase that turned into more of a project than the "good runner" it was described as by the California seller.
Motor comes out and mysterious bottom end noise gets investigated. Long list of things to attend to before the spring Giro.

Boston Magazine Shoot

Had a shoot last week for Boston Magazine. My friend Joe helped me out on it. Here is a test shot. I will post images from the article when it comes out.

850-T Sold

The 850-T went to a good home not too far from my own. A guy from Somerville bought it and I hope to still see it (and hear it) around town. Paul is a great guy and the perfect owner. Still waiting on 235 to show up from California. Should be here Tuesday. (sorry about the iPhone photos)

Fall

Here are a couple recent photos of D from a walk around Walden Pond with Jen and Leah.

D picked the last of the carrots from our tiny garden.

Halloween practice at Somerville ave parade. (Strawberry Shortcake)

Took a short ride with Bill to Vanilla Bean for Guzzi gathering.
This is by the Blackstone River in Uxbridge.

Out with the old........

....in with the older (and smaller). I am selling my beloved '75 850-T to fund the recent purchase of a '62 Moto Guzzi 235. If you are interested in it send me an email. It's on Craigslist now and if nobody takes it I'm putting it on eBay next week.

Steam and Internal Cumbustion live in harmony one fall day.

Took a ride this past weekend with Joe in his beautiful 1969 FuryIII to Rhode Island to attend the Yankee Steam Up followed by an American Car show in the next town over.





The Steam up is an event I had heard about from my friend Scott a couple years back and have wanted to go since. People bring homemade steam engines to set up and run on display. Some run on actual steam provided by the organizers and some run off compressed air. The museum itself has a collection of steam engines big and small from the late 1800's on display and running. Other interesting things on site that day, homemade steam powered motorcycle, 2 steam powered boats, a radial airplane motor in the back of a pickup truck that was trying to start, mountain bike with honda 35cc motor with tons of handmade inventions by Steve ridden from Dedham Ma.

Methanol



steam table

Wonderfulness

I am part of a rep company called Wonderful Machine.
They are just what the name states. They promoted me recently in a wheeled focused email. Click picture view.

Fall Giro

I didn't take too many photos this time at the MotoGiro that took place this past weekend in Corning NY. I broke down the first day with 30 miles to go with a charging issue. New battery and clean connections and I was good for Sunday.
Nice place to break down.




Minister and Mike

MAGAZINE LOVE

Here are a couple recent magazines with my photos in it. First is the new issue of Bicycling with images of RIDE.STUDIO.CAFE in it. If you haven't gone there yet, you should. I know you like coffee and bikes right? Go.


Second is the newest PDN with a section on Boston Photographers. They ran an image of my good friend Bill and his Aermacchi Sprint I took in his garage a while back. It's funny how the article reads. When they asked me my thoughts about Boston as a city be a photographer in I didn't really focus on all the ways photo has changed in the past few years. We have lost a lot of labs, store, studios, magazines etc... I sort of assume that has happened in EVERY city. I feel Boston is a vibrant place to work and live. I feel lucky to have all these creative people around me and hiring me. I just feel lucky to have this as a job. I'll link the article when it's up on PDN's site