This is what the next day looked like in the morning. Good thing about Boston, there are plenty of things to see close by. The two at the top of my list were MIT and Harvard. So off I went (driving very slowly) to nearby Cambridge before driving to Hartford in the afternoon.
By the time I took this photo, the blue hour was finished and I was tired enough to call it a day (actually a very long day due to the time difference). Just walked back to South Station and got onto the bus back to the hotel at the airport. Nice that the center of Boston is so small. Easy to understand why it´s called the Walking City.
I am usually too lazy to retouch my photos. In this case the perspective effect on the tall tower behind Quincy Market is simply a bit too much. So I gave the perspective tool in Gimp a try.
I am quite convinced that this sudden interest in correcting perspective has to do with me recently reading about image warping here. But I wonder if I have not stretched the Market and the tower a bit too much...
Some times I take my tripod for no good reason, just in case, end up carrying it around for hours and never get to use it. Well, not this time. It was already too late for my old camera´s sensor to take these photos just by cranking up the ISO (too much noise) or holding the camera by hand (exposure too long, i.e. blurred image for sure). And there came the tripod to the rescue...
Something that always gets my attention are these churches buried in between high rise buildings. The churches are not small, it´s just that the buildings around are huge.
If you don´t have much time in Boston, one easy option is just to go for a walk along the Freedom Trail. So that´s what I did. It was not that cold and, thankfully, it was not windy (unlike the following day...)
This was my first stop, the House of Representatives, as seen from the Boston Common.
I've been in the USA this past week. I had the chance to visit downtown Boston quickly on Saturday right after my arrival. Although I was tired from the trip and the time difference, I forced myself to get out of the hotel and go for a quick tour. Good that I did, because I found this plaque and, maybe not my best photo ever, but I could not agree more to it.
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