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I was fortunate enough to catch both ends of a rainbow that appeared over Boston during a recent visit.  I didn’t have my DSLR with me that night but I think I did a good job capturing things with the camera from my pocket.  To make these images I first took several exposures of each scene by focusing on different brightness levels within the frame.  Back at the computer I used an HDR (High Dynamic Range) plug-in to merge the best parts of the exposures into a single image.  The results are good and look pretty natural, the way that our human eyes see things as opposed to a single camera exposure.

Boston Rainbow

Standing on the edge of the Charles River in Cambridge I spotted a rainbow landing on the John Hancock tower in Boston. This is an HDR composite from three exposures taken with my iPhone. The differences between this and the “properly” exposed original are subtle, but I liked the additional contrast in the sky and the water that the HDR brought out.

Mass General Rainbow

While not as clearly defined as the other end of the rainbow, this end landed on top of one of the Massachusetts General Hospital buildings. That’s the Longfellow on the right crossing the Charles River of course.  This too is an HDR composite made from pictures taken with the iPhone.

On a side note, our son was treated for a serious illness at MGH, and we spend a good number of days “living” in that shiny building. Our boy is healthy again and back to a normal childhood, so we did find our pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.

-Josh

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Another attempt at an iPhone HDR shot. Captured these on the run just after a partner meeting in northern Massachusetts. I think it came out OK, but certainly nothing fantastic from an artistic or technical standpoint. Always love being by the water though!

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Revisiting some older photos today and reprocessed this one into something nice. This was taken at sunset at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, . We had spent the weekend here for my birthday, staying in a lovely little B&B just up the road from here.

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Took a quick trip into New Hampshire yesterday and on the way home I stopped and photographed the historic . The spans the Merrimack River, one of the largest in this part of the state. I decided to go with the wide shot and include a bit of the rails that parallel the river and to show the great width of the river itself. I like the steeple poking up towards the western end of the , though from this distance its impact is pretty minimal. While not immediately obvious in this photo, there is a temporary running alongside the old single-span steel . This scene is a significant landmark to us when taking this route into our bordering state of New Hampshire. There are few crossings over the Merrimack, and old majestic spans like this one are always a sight to be behold.

“Built in 1930, it is the second oldest of it’s type in the state of Massachusetts. The ’s 547 foot main span is the longest simple steel span in the MassHighway database, and the 5th-longest single span amongst all bridges listed in the database.” “Having fallen into serious disrepair, the green has been replaced by a temporary structure while work is done to restore the former to be completed in summer 2012.”

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I really love that we have this creek on our property. It is beautiful to look at and it attracts a ton of diverse wildlife to our . Even the old stone is cool to look at, and we often find people stopping to draw/paint/photograph the view from the road. Water is a powerful force though, and when it turns on you there is little that can be done about it.

The water level here is about a foot or two higher than usual, and even then it is down more than a foot and a half from Monday’s peak. You can just about see the culvert under the again. Our house sits on a bit of a rise, and in the years that we have lived here we have never had a problem with it. We have neighbors, however, that often lose most of their yards and suffer other flood-related issues. There’s a beaver damn not far downstream that is the target of many curses around here, and the normal water level varies depending on how busy the beavers have been.

Anyway, once the rain finally stopped on Monday night the water drained away both from our basement, from our , and from many other flooded areas in our state. I woke up Tuesday to find damp but bare patches of concrete in the workshop and clear skies that eventually gave way to warm sun. The worst was over, but the clean up was about to begin. While the bare floors were a welcome sight, the saturated carpets and damp sheet-rock will be another story altogether.

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