Clik here to view.
mass ave
At 9:30 on Massachusetts Avenue, close to Cambridge Common. I used to bike along this road twice a day during the first 4 weeks of my stay here. At night, Mass. Ave becomes a rather peaceful...
View ArticleClik here to view.
red line
The Kendall/MIT Station. This is my stop when I take the Red Line to work, mostly when it’s really icy, raining or otherwise unsuitable to bike. I mentioned Boston’s public transportation system...
View ArticleClik here to view.
fresh pond
At Fresh Pond, shortly after noon. Fresh Pond is a water reservoir and park in Cambridge. When I arrived the sun had come out and shone brightly across the melting ice. Today was the first day that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
withering beauty
This morning on the Charles. It’s quite hard to keep something in focus that’s floating in water when gusts of wind whip up waves all the time, but with a bit of luck I was able to score this one.
View ArticleClik here to view.
harvard yard
Around 8:30 on Harvard Yard. What you see here is only a tiny part of Harvard University, but the Yard is its oldest “part”. I really like this place, especially at night when the tourists are gone and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
salt’n pepper
Enjoying the late afternoon sunshine on the Longfellow Bridge. The so-called Salt-and-Pepper Bridge got its nickname from the shape of its central towers. It is one of the bridges that connects...
View ArticleClik here to view.
snowdrop
Just taken in front of our building (I had to take 17 shots before I hit the 2.5 seconds with very little wind). I like the English name of this flower: snowdrop, which fits well to its closed state,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ghosts
Taken at the entrance of the Harvard T Stop. She was the only one taking it slowly while everybody else was whizzing past, leaving only ghostly traces on the chip.
View ArticleClik here to view.
power lines
Today I biked up to Prospect Hill and found a good spot to take one of the photographs I always wanted to take since the first day I came to the US. These sprawling power lines that run from house to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
grill
That’s the south-western side of Simmons Hall, a dorm for MIT undergrads. From this side it sort of looks like a barbecue grill to me, which probably fits quite well to the emotional state of its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
solid
This was taken on Harvard Street at around 7:45 this morning. A couple of weeks ago, Max talked about this public dataset (here’s a map mashup) of fire-hydrant locations in Boston and now I notice them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
vibrant
Kawan and Joey were performing at Sprout about an hour ago. When Kawan’s making music it’s quite hard to catch him in a semi-still position :). It was great!
View ArticleClik here to view.
corners
Detail of the Albany Garage. I like how light and shadow play with the massive concrete forms. Before I took this shot I was up on the top level of the garage shooting pictures of the adjacent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
difficult shot
Tonight I went out with my colleagues to play pool at Flattop Johnny’s (we do that mainly as a farewell thing), and this is Karla going for a trick shot.
View ArticleClik here to view.
caress
Taken this morning at the Charles River. There are often geese at that spot, so I guess that it’s from one of these guys.
View ArticleClik here to view.
daffodils
Yep, they seem to enjoy the sunshine as much as we do. I found them today on my favorite riverbank.
View ArticleClik here to view.
monster
This awesome little guy was made by Pleuni and it arrived last week. It usually takes care of my phone, so whenever you call me, you have to get past Monster first.
View ArticleClik here to view.
trusty
Detail of a lathe at Sprout. I’ve always been fascinated by heavy machinery and this is the most massive beast Sprout has — a stark contrast to the tiny Arduinos we usually work on there.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
walk
It was a very bright day today and it felt more like Spring than any other day this year. I hadn’t seen this many people outdoors over the past three months. Everywhere along the Charles were clusters...
View ArticleClik here to view.
waiting
We did a little road trip today to get out of Cambridge. First we explored the beautiful Noanet Woodlands and then we went East and ended up at Farm Pond. Today there were just a few anglers, but the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
marathon man
Together with thousands of other people we cheered on the participants of the 2011 Boston Marathon. First came the amazing wheelchairs, followed by a group of very fast women and later a group of even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
small world
It’s been raining almost all day, but during the five minutes it stopped I went out to try out my new camera. It is quite a jump from my trusty old Olympus 5060C Wide Zoom, whose every quirk I know, to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
raining
It’s been raining a lot the past few days. This is another part of Massachusetts Avenue and a part that looks quite American to me.
View ArticleClik here to view.
dropped
A Ficus benjamina is an incredible plant. I got one from Pleuni in prospect of our move to a bigger space next week. A Ficus is very sensitive to differences in light exposure, and maybe that’s why...
View ArticleClik here to view.
explorers
Today I met these little guys. Their parents were watching them and their sibs closely but these two got away a couple of feet. After a while their guardians became a little bit more relaxed and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
alert
I caught this guy hiding food for harder times. As squirrels are really good at planting trees, a friend suggested once jokingly that eating these seeds/nuts must be bad for long-term memory, otherwise...
View ArticleClik here to view.
tiger inside
Yesterday was the first time I picked up the camera again after our move. Now we’re sitting between cardboard boxes and enjoy being in our new home. Thanks again and again to our heroic helpers! It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
stormy
Boston’s Back Bay, seen from Longfellow Bridge this evening. We had a couple of stretches of really stormy weather over the last couple of days, but quite a couple of surfers and sailors seemed to...
View Article