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Walter Baker Chocolate Factory
Made by MackayPhotography
Last of chocolate factory is set for reuse By Robert Preer, Globe Correspondent | November 26, 2006 MILTON -- The last remaining empty buildings at the sprawling Walter Baker Co. chocolate factory complex in Milton and Dorchester Lower Mills are on the verge of being redeveloped. Two smaller structures -- one brick and the other wood -- on the Milton side of the Neponset River are slated to be converted to condominiums. The property owner, Extra Space Storage, also wants to erect a new five-story building as part of the project, which is to include stores and a restaurant on the first floor. That proposal is now making its way through the town boards in Milton. Across the river in Dorchester, a large, vacant brick factory building is targeted for conversion to 61 apartments. The condominium association that owns the building approved the reuse plan earlier this year, and construction is scheduled to start in February. This is not only a redevelopment; it is also an historic preservation project, said David Colton, chairman of the board of trustees of the Baker Square Condominium Association and Milton's former town administrator. The association represents 97 condo owners in an adjacent converted factory. The chocolate manufacturing operation opened in 1765 . It prospered and expanded throughout the 19th century and part of the 20th, then closed in 1965 when the company moved its operations to Delaware. Redevelopment has occurred piecemeal over the past 50 years. The Baker Square condominiums at 1241 and 1243 Adams St. in Dorchester opened in 1989. The Walter Baker Co. administration building was converted to artists' lofts in 2002. The following year, Shaw's Supermarkets opened a new store in a renovated chocolate factory warehouse. State Representative Linda Dorcena Forry, who lives in Dorchester Lower Mills and represents part of Milton, said reuse of the old factory buildings is revitalizing the area. It is going to be of great importance for Lower Mills, she said.
Dairy Freeze Quincy, MA
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Featured in the following BLOG fromichelle.blogspot.com/ Another Blog masshomeview.com/dairy-freeze-quincy-ma.html Dairy Freeze 635 Adams Street Quincy, MA With the coming of summer, so too come the hordes of people looking for good outdoor ice cream stands. South of Boston, in the historic city of Quincy, that very stand exists. The Dairy Freeze, or The Sleaze as it is known in the colloquial, offers good, traditional soft-serve ice creams that bring most Quincy-ites out from slumbering winter hibernation. But don't fear the moderately long lines of growling stomachs at The Sleaze, workers at the window move people in and out at a substantially good rate. The Sleaze's specialty usually deals with soft-serve twist cones, and on any given day you will find a plethora of overheated people indulging on these twisty treats. The most popular are Chocolate-Vanilla, Orange-Vanilla, and Raspberry-Coffee twists. Chocolate-vanilla is good for those pragmatic ice-cream connoisseurs who remain unwilling to decide on a flavor. But the most indulging flavors are the Raspberry-Coffee, and Orange-Vanilla twists; both offering an initial smattering of fruity-citrus delight that overwhelms your taste buds, only to be gradually smoothed back to normalcy by subtleties of vanilla or coffee. The Orange-Vanilla remains the staple of The Sleaze primarily because it offers two flavors on a more even keel, whereas the Raspberry-Coffee smacks you with deluges of raspberry that become restrained by a smooth coolness of South American cocoa beans. Also, for those insatiable moments of nostalgia for Dairy Queen, The Sleaze offers several options for soft-serve dips, but take heed; this option is intended for the truly daring who don't mind a little melted goodness on the hands. Napkins are a must for these treats.
Big Ice on Nickerson Beach
Made by Justin Smith - Photography
Finally got a great day of shooting! Today I visited a place in Quincy called Nickerson Beach & Chapel Rock. This probably the nearest place to Boston with the kind of rocky outcroppings and natural beaches I love to shoot. This place is actually pretty unusual. In most of New England, if you find open rock anywhere, it's almost always granite. The rocky bluffs nearest to Nickerson Beach are made of shale, however. It's also what the beaches are made from, tiny bits of the stuff. Out at the end of the point that culminates in Chapel Rock, it's a different story. It appears to be made of volcanic conglomerate, which is made when magma that has cooled a lot absorbs stones that were made previously. The absorbed stones don't melt because the magma is on the verge of solidifying itself. So you end up with this rock that has lots of other rocks embedded in it. Pretty neat stuff. If any geology experts know more about the area and can correct me on anything I've said, go ahead. This shot was taken right at Nickerson Beach. Some large chunks of ice collected in this area. I took a lot of shots making use of the ice while I was here. The largest object in the background is actually not one of Boston's skyscrapers, but a much nearer concrete object... not really sure what it is, actually, but it's part of the Nickerson Beach & Chapel Rock park area. I came back and took some more shots of that later. This shot was taken about 1/2 hour before sunset. I'll have many more shots from here throughout the week. Nikon D50 Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm ISO 200 Exposure: 20 sec Aperture: f/16 Filters: Hoya ND400 (9 stops), Lee 3-stop ND grad
Sunset at Chapel Rock
Made by Justin Smith - Photography
Same location as last shot, turned to the left. Sunset is just behind that rocky turn ahead. I really want to get to this place again at low tide. The location of the ice marks where high tide is, and you can see that this is pretty close to that. Ideally, I want to get here for sunrise at high-tide. Directly behind me in this shot is a huge mass of rock sticking out like a knife edge pointing east. My hope is that this beach of shale and shell bits continues around the rock. If so, the potential is here for a shot that could look quite similar to some of the amazing stuff out on the west coast (with graffiti added, unfortunately). After this shot, I picked up the tripod and camera and ran like a madman through the woods to get to the next location I wanted. The good light like this doesn't last long. I didn't even bother taking the grad filters off the camera, which in retrospect might have been stupid, but no harm was done, even climbing down a steep rocky ledge to get where I wanted to be. Most of this shot is very close to being straight out of camera (other than dust-spot removal and sharpening). I did however spend a lot of effort working on the ice in post-processing. It looked very plain and gray, and now it looks pretty much how I think ice should look. Nikon D50 Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm ISO 200 Exposure: 4 sec Aperture: f/16 Filters: Lee ND grads 3-stop + 2-stop (the reverse ND would make too sharp a transition with the landform at left)
LightZ
Made by -JC-
My first try at experiments in painting with light. This is my 6 year old 2004 Nissan 350Z Track Model. I had some free time today and decided to clean her up and play with the new Canon 7D. This picture was taken in almost DARK conditions. After setting up the camera for a long exposure I walked around the car firing my Speedlite 430EX II while the shutter was opened. I wanted to get the light trails but light up the car a the same time. I was able to light the bottom part of the car from the windows down pretty well, but the top and back were pretty dark. The wheels took especially well to the flash. I had to add some fill light to the top half of the car in post. I probably needed to have the flash on a stick to get the angle from above. I also felt bad popping off the flash into on coming traffic ;-) This is what it looked like without the flash. I am still learning my Canon 7D and was not quite happy with the amount of noise that came out in this long exposure. I don't think I had the in camera long exposure noise reduction turned on at all. I don't have any experience with this setting but judging from my results I think I will turn it on next time. There is always next time. I'd also like to try this in some parking garage environments when I get a chance where I don't have to feel bad about blinding oncoming traffic!
Squantum Naval Air Station, Boston, MA
Made by MackayPhotography
This airfield consists of a 714 acre site located on the Squantum Peninsula that thrusts into Boston Harbor, separating Quincy & Dorchester Bays. The origins of Squantum date back to 1910, when the land was leased to the Harvard Boston Aero Association. It was used by the Massachusetts Naval Militia just prior to WW1, making it one of the earliest military airfields in the country. During WW1 the Navy took over the field & used it for training & coastal patrols. The Bethlehem Steel Company built the Victory Plant Shipyard on the northern side of the property, and built 35 destroyers between 1918-1920. By 1960, the site was labeled Abandoned Airport on the Boston Local Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Mike Keefe). The seaplane basin in the eastern portion of the airfield property was converted into a marina, surrounded by the high-priced Marina Bay luxury condos. A large building (the former Jordan Marsh warehouse) has been built over the southern portion of the property. The surviving runways served as a tractor/trailer school until acquired by the MDC & Massachusetts Water Resources Authority in the 1980s. They have now developed the site as the Squantum Point Park, which includes an Aviation Walk commemorating the site's aviation history. unjobs.org/tags/aeronautical-charts/photos
USS Salem park: what appears to be a World War 2 Nazi German miniature submarine
Made by Chris Devers
This photo may make the sub look larger than it really is. In reality, the fuselage is no more than maybe 6 feet above the ground, and note that it's sitting on a wooden frame as well. It's maybe 30 feet long, and if you figure that there had to be room inside the shell for an engine, ballast, etc, I can't see how it would have been able to have a crew of more than 3 or 4 people, maybe 6 if they really pack them in, and didn't also need room for things like fuel, food supplies, weaponry, etc. It must have been a reconnaissance craft, launched from a larger ship or maybe a plane, but it's probably too big for anything smaller than a Hercules, and I don't think anything that big existed yet during World War Two. So probably ship-launched then, short range surveillance. You hear stories about how the American mainland was never attacked or really threatened during World War Two, but there were occasional incursions by German submarines. I'd always assumed this meant full size ships, but now that I think about it, at least some of those stories must have meant smaller craft like this one. Indeed, it may be that this very boat was captured while patrolling off the coast of Massachusetts during the war. I wasn't able to find out anything about its story (obviously), but would be happy to learn more.
By crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas...
Made by FerPecT_sHotz
- Bhagat Singh I have to confess that the animal was not in any kind of peril but was resting in the corner away from the sun but looked perfectly in sync with the quote by one of the most famous martyr from India's struggle for freedom. The mandrill is found in southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo preferring to live in tropical rain forests and forest-savanna mosaics. The mandrill is the world's largest species of monkey. Charles Darwin wrote, no other member in the whole class of mammals is colored in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrills. It has an olive green or dark grey pelage with yellow and black bands and a white belly. Its hairless face has an elongated muzzle with distinctive characteristics such as a red stripe down the middle and protruding blue ridges on the sides. It also has red nostrils and lips, a yellow beard and white tuffs. The areas around the genitals and the anus are multi-colored, being colored red, pink, blue, scarlet, and purple. They also have pale pink ischial callosities. The coloration of the animal is more pronounced in dominant adult males. Both sexes have a patch of skin, surrounded by bristly hairs, on their chests that are used in olfactory communication. These too are more pronounced in dominant adult males.
The M Line at the Milton Station
Made by Howland Studio (aka: howlinhill)
I live in Massachusetts, and have for almost my whole life, yet still find plenty of places that are unknown to me and love to explore them. Milton, MA was the destination on this past Sunday, where my boyfriend and I found this awesome train car. We first spotted it while exploring the Cedar Grove Cemetery there, (this line runs right through the cemetery, the only one to go through a cemetery on the T in fact), and I almost thought I was seeing things, except he saw it too. So we ventured back out of the cemetery to see if we could find it again and ended up at the Milton T stop, where after a short wait, we spied another beautiful, orange creamsicle rolling our way. I was tempted to get on it and go for a ride, but decided to save it for another day as it was getting late and dark. We ended up waiting around for several more to come and go and meandered down the bike path that goes alongside the tracks there, which proved to be an interesting area in itself. When we got home, I searched for information about the vintage cars and found this: railroad.net/articles/railfanning/mbtatrolley/index.php It's by far the best thing the MBTA has done in a very long time. Bravo!
Between sunset and blue-hour
Made by Justin Smith - Photography
Taken about 10 minutes after the last shot (40 minutes after sunset). I wanted a shot similar to the last one but which showed more of the ice debris, and also had more variety of color. The last one was almost exclusively warm colors, but by this time the cloudless parts had started to lose the red color, while the clouds on the horizon were still brilliant scarlet. Tomorrow I'll be meeting up with other photographers at North Point Park near the Science Museum. If any of you in the Boston area are interested, you are welcome to meet up with us. This will be the second time I've been there. The last was a year ago when I was really just beginning to improve in photography, so I'll be curious to see if the shots I get are much different. And since it is a long weekend, I have a lot of plans. :-) Nikon D50 Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm ISO 200 Exposure: 120 sec Aperture: f/16 Filters: Lee ND grads 3-stop + 2-stop (covering both sky and water) Since I occasionally get asked about shots like this... no HDR or any kind of multiple exposure method used. I'll mention if I use something that. This is actually almost straight-out-of-camera... All I did was rotate and sharpen.
~ Serendipity ~
Made by MackayPhotography
Quincy Shore Drive - I was initally trying to photograph the Big Orange Moon. Then it got covered by clouds. So I turnt the camera towards the street. After a few shots I got this one : ) Quincy Shores Reservation www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/quincyshore.htm Quincy Shore Drive links Wollaston Beach with Caddy memorial Park and Moswetuset Hummock. The 2.3 mile beach is popular for its jogging/bicycling trail and swimming. Caddy Park on the southern end of the beach has over 15 acres of fields and marsh as well as a play area, lookout tower and picnic tables. Moswetuset Hummock, on the beach's northern end, is a National Historic Site. Once a summer campsite of Native Americans during the 1600's, it is a mixture of woodland trails and open marshland. The site which has a short loop trail, offers views of Quincy Bay and 144-acre Squantum Marsh.
Mattapan massacre
Made by Courtney Sacco
This photo was on the front page and on page 5 of the Boston Herald on 9/29/10 bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100929brutal_slayin... This photo can be seen in the Boston herald website www.bostonherald.com/galleries/index.php?gallery_id=4376&... The mass murder unfolded at about 1 a.m., said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, when the department’s shot spotter detected gunshots at 40 Woolson St. Two men and one woman were pronounced dead at the scene, while a toddler was rushed to the hospital and died shortly thereafter, Davis said. A fifth victim will not survive, he said
Follow the line...
Made by Justin Smith - Photography
The ice on the rocks marks where high-tide ends, I assume. I had to scrambled down some ledges to get here, and since I was in a rush I didn't bother taking my camera off the tripod or taking the filters off. Maybe a bit risky, but the light wasn't going to wait. To the left of me in this shot are some very high sheer rock faces. They would be a little more visible in the shot, but some of the shortcomings of using ND grad filters are revealed here. I'd like to come back and take this shot again at a later time in the evening when the sky has dimmed quite a bit and I don't need the filters anymore. Taken about 20 minutes after sunset. Nikon D50 Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm ISO 200 Exposure: 30 sec Aperture: f/16 Filters: Lee ND grads 3-stop + 2-stop
Black Monolith
Made by Justin Smith - Photography
Yet another shot from Nickerson Beach park in Quincy, MA. We are now 30 minutes after sunset, and the color and light in the sky is pretty much at its peak. The black object is a huge concrete cylinder at the end of a narrow peninsula. I don't know what it is for. In the foreground are large ice blocks that collected in this area for some reason. I deleted and re-uploaded this shot again because I forgot to correct the skewed horizon. Should be good now. Of course that means I lost a bit of the image all around the edges... Oh well. One more shot from here tomorrow. Nikon D50 Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm ISO 200 Exposure: 30 sec Aperture: f/16 Filters: Lee GND 3-stop + 2-stop, covering both sky and water reflection (only the ice got full exposure)
Day 17 of 365 Days of Love
Made by Nikki Loux Photography
The second I found out I had this weekend off from work, Barry & I made plans to go away for the night. We stayed at the Marriott in Quincy, then took the T into Boston for our dinner reservations at Maggiano's. It was an extremely romantic night, filled with a lot of fun and a lot of love. We enjoyed every second we shared with each other. This picture was taken when we were first settling into the hotel room. The sun was setting and it was giving us a very romantic light to our room. Love, Nikki & Barry Ps- Our hotel room was really nice, but we still didn't have an internet connection! Sorry for the late upload! follow us on Tumblr too! amiraculouspower.tumblr.com/
High Tide Beneath the Tracks
Made by jores59
Dusk near the Port Norfolk section of Dorchester, MA by the edge of the Neponset River. Here the river is subject to ocean tides, which are at their height in this photo. Spanning the River above is the MBTA rapid transit train bridge crossing from Dorchester into Quincy. Some sort of train has crossed the river at this site for well over a century. Reviewing old maps I suspect the old wood pilings in the foreground might be a remnant of Pratt's Wharf, part of Laban Pratt and Sons' Lumber Yard which existed on this site in the latter half of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries. I have a slightly different view of this subject at low tide here: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi; ISO 100; f13; 270 seconds; 110 ND filter; 18mm
Remnants
Made by jores59
More remains of piers along the Neponset River near the Port Norfolk neighborhood in Dorchester, MA (a section of Boston). Today these exist near the Venezia Restaurant and Port Norfolk Yacht Club. Looking at some old maps of Dorchester they appear to what is left of a pier that was likely part of the George Lawley & Son Ship Yard which was on this site in the early part of the 20th century. You can see some images of this original boatyard as follows: www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=570 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi; ISO 100; f22; 74 seconds; 110 ND filter; 55mm Best if you
Empty Streets of Boston
Made by Sebastian (sibbiblue)
Description Inspired by famouse Japanese photographer Mr. Matasaka Nakano. I tried to find my own view and interpretation of the empty streets of Boston.The sun was rising just behind the trees at the end of the street. HDR has been used as a tool to deal with the high contrast situation rather than giving the image a unique style. Technique: f/11 3 exposures ISO:200 focal length: 24mm on Nikon D40 Postprocessing: Lightroom LR 3.2, Phostoshop CS4 and Photomatix If you are interested in viewing this picture on black, hit the letter L on your keyboard.
Delta 783
Made by MackayPhotography
Last night had an opportunity to shoot this Quincy Police cruiser. He parked the cruiser next to the Heavy cruiser the U.S.S Salem in Quincy, MA I hope you enjoy ! ! This is Quincy, MA Police Unit Delta 783 And it will be one the last New Ford Crown Victoria's this department will receive before Ford starts rolling out the new cruisers based on the Ford Taurus. However. This dept may look at other options, An Australian based Commodore is rumored to be in production for police use as well as the Impala may make another run and there always is the Dodge Charger. Cheers ! !
Come to the dark side
Made by Justin Smith - Photography
I intentionally exposed this to be a bit dark. The filters made the top area of the clouds really dark. Let me know if you like it. This is another shot at Nickerson Beach and Chapel Rock. The rocky bluff where I took the previous picture is about 30 feet behind where I took this one (and about 15 feet up). Boston visible in the background. This is about 10 minutes after sunset. I'm not done yet from this place. 4 more to go! Nikon D50 Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 ISO 200 Exposure: 2.5 sec Aperture: f/16 Filters: Lee 3-stop ND grad, Singh-Ray 3-stop Reverse ND grad
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