Lincoln Street Green Strip

There was a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Lincoln Street Green Strip (which I wrote about previously) today.

Here's some photos I took of it last week.

In my mind, the noteworthy aspects include that it:

• Is a significant improvement


• Reflects community input


• Came in in budget (apparently)


• Is designed to be low maintenance (mostly volunteer, if I understand correctly).

I think the latter is especially important during the inevitable times of stress on the city's budget (like now).
Here's the artists' description

No detailed masking

Here's something that I wouldn't have thought possible without detailed masking around the "sharpened supports"

Before

After

It was just a Tiffen Filter combo of (from bottom to top)

• Bleach Bypass 5


• Depth of Field: Highlight Blur (with an increased range parameter)


• Color looks: Sunset

PS: Yes, I also think its cool

chain bridge

Near the Chicago Ford plant

South Chicago

Some heavily photoshopped shots from my Gary Indiana, South Chicago Illinois trip last year.

Pittsburgh Slide Show

Just posted a slide show of my Pittsburgh shots on my .me site

Farthest Allston

Sometimes my travels take me into other sections of Allston, even venturing beyond the Mass Pike!

In one of my walks a few months ago I found this amazing vent that appeared to have fallen off of a building.

It served as a good basis for some Photoshop work.

This final image is as is -- no Photoshop.

Installation Art? ATM??

You decide (I can't)

I know I could go in and ask (there is a conduit leading back into the building), but I'm enjoying the ambiguity.

This is one of the oddest things I have seen in Allston in a while, and whatever its intention, strikes me as a pretty profound commentary.