Dig This Spread, by nate_marsh.

I am very happy to have one of my photos in the “Weekly Dig” this week. I’ve had a couple in the “random photos” section but this is the first time I got into the centerfold – which is perfect for panoramas. I submitted a photo I had taken a couple months ago looking into downtown Boston from the Childrens Museum. The buildings on the water there each have a unique set of colors and topographies, I was rather happy with the result – then I played with it a bit in CS3 to give it a nice overexposed/
“bursting with color” look. I’m a happy guy!

dig safe, by nate_marsh.

I finally scrapped up enough pennies to buy me a new camera, yippee!
It is an evolutionary leap from my original baby, Francine, the trusty e300. The new baby in the house doesn’t have a name yet, but sure is she pretty! It an e510 which brings in some now tricks for my photos, the Image Stabilization that is built into the camera is amazing & it is much much faster to do many of the in-camera tasks. Lots of other interesting lil’ thingamagigs as well that I am still figuring out. I have some new photos from this cutie on flickr now.

What is Arrrrt?, by nate_marsh.

This question has been asked many time before, here’s a little light tent action!

Warehouse, by nate_marsh.

I put together a small set of my favorite photos from 2005, or the last 6 months of 2005. That’s when I got my baby, the e300!

Here is the set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nate_marsh/sets/72157600048557212/

Love you baby!

P8312780, by nate_marsh.

I read a fantastic book earlier this year about something I had no idea I would enjoy so much – a complete page turner that I really could not be separated from for long. This book was called: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape. The central point of this book (in my mind) is that we everyday stumble through a complex landscape representing the pinnacle of human engineering, yet we rarely make an effort to understand even the basics of how it all fits together to make up the infrastructure that nearly all of us encounter.

This book doesn’t bash you over the head with superstructures and this complex web, instead it feeds you the different pieces and gives you the tools to better understand how the world seemingly hums along. The book is by no means exhaustive and the author goes to pains to point out that everything he discusses is immensely more complicated. The reason this book is so amazing is the authors ability to break complex systems into interesting pieces. The icing on the cake is that the author has included thousands of his beautiful photos of whatever he is talking about. Much of the greatest photos are of stuff that, post-9/11, would be nearly impossible to access, let along snap some shot. Seriously, this book is nearly perfect in what it provides – my old man even uses it in one of the classes he teaches!

In celebration – I made an infrastructure flickr set of some shots I enjoy, maybe you will too!

p8252568, by nate_marsh.

I went on a fun whale watch this weekend with friends and family. It took about an hour to get out to the good feeding ground, which was a bit bumpy & a whole bunch of people were downstairs throwing up next to the snack bar. Once we got out to the site, we were lucky to see a lot of different whales, including some momma & baby whales. Since even the baby whale is gigantic, it’s not exactly cute, but it is neat to see.

I also saw a bunch of liquid and bulk ships on the way back – sweet!

08/20/2007, by nate_marsh.

I’ve been playing with my new phone, the N75 which is a neat little device. One nerdy service that I am trying is with the unlimited data plan, you can actually send your crappy photos right to Flickr! No need to wait the extra 15 seconds to get ‘em on your computer first. Technology is grand!

Da Intercontinental, by nate_marsh.

Here is a pano that I enjoy gazing at. I was doing something or rather downtown when I got the chance to stroll down by the water.

The Intercontinental is some new $$$ hotel in Boston and it does have a very pleasing facade. It is probably a dump inside though!

P7082120_1, by nate_marsh.

Had a great trip up to Isleboro, ME — a pretty as a peach lil’ island somewhere up in Maine. A couple days of sun & fog with a couple of my closest homies.
Based on this photo, you can be assured that this was a very serious weekend — lots of far reaching discussions re: Kyoto Accords, the state of the derivatives market and some extremely high level, politically loaded games Chinese Checkers!

petitduckies, by nate_marsh.

Lookee at these cute little geesies! Makes me wish I ate meat !