Boston Marathon 2014

The 2014 Boston Marathon proved that a city, state, and nation can come together after a tragedy stronger than ever. An amazing spring day greeted runners and viewers along the entire course. American Meb Keflezighi won the Men's division for the first time since 1983 and Dick and Rick (Team) Hoyt completed their 32nd and final marathon in a fitting conclusion to great event and year of recovery.

Boston Rainbow

This late afternoon, most faced a series of intense thunderstorms and flooding rain on the evening commute. However, immediately after, the sun came out and a fantastic double rainbow lingered for more than 30 minutes over the Boston area.

Blizzard of 2013 - Nemo!

Let me just first start off by saying I love snow! So I was very excited by the recent Nemo blizzard, despite the 4+ hours spent shoveling this morning and afternoon. We got between 24 - 30 inches here and even more from blowing snow into drifts. I'm currently listening to an excavator clear snow from our parking lot outside.

Below are some shots from late yesterday afternoon as well as this morning in the aftermath of the storm. A few are HDR - high dynamic range. Some consumer cameras have this feature automatically, but the more sophisticated semi-pro and pro-level cameras do it by manually setting the exposure bracketing for the scene, then taking 3 to 5 pictures. Afterwards, you combine them in Photoshop. The way some photographers apply HDR is a bit overdone and unrealistic, but if moderately applied, you can get some cool surreal scenes.

These pictures are also on Flickr here.

 

Scenes From The Boston Marathon

Scenes from the 116th running of the Boston Marathon in the Brookline area - April 16, 2012.