Three Views of the River Liffey

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We travel to Dublin’s River Liffey today. This art installation was a less surprising find that might be expected, as the river has quite a history with Viking longboats.

Modern Viking Ship?

Just down the way, the Millennium Bridge was decorated with rainbow hoops. Whether looking into the sunset…

Rainbow Out of Shadows

…Or away from it, there was a color to match the sky. The (comparatively) modern structure against the older buildings of Dublin makes for a delightful juxtaposition.

Rainbow in Blue Hour

And let’s throw in one more for good measure: this further juxtaposition from not far away in Trinity College, Dublin. I like the mix of a delivery driver in a modern van, checking his phone in front of a hall whose builders could never have imagined such a thing.

Trinity Delivery

Bushnell Tower Watching Fireworks

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Flying a drone in downtown Hartford requires some extra permissions, but they’re worth chasing for the opportunity to capture shots like this one: Bushnell Tower, the State Capitol, and a rain-checked fireworks display arrayed above Bushnell Park.

Bushnell Tower Watching Fireworks in the Park

Relaxing with the Bay Area

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Conserved spaces above the noisy East Bay grid make for this incredible reprieve. Though the street lights may shine up here, the sounds are damped over the distance. Lawrence Hall of Science is a popular spot to experience this; I like the contrast in this image between the humans and the city.

Relaxing with the Bay Area

How Did I Miss These?

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A post came on social media from more than 11 years ago reminded me of trips around the Bay Area; comparing my RAW files with the images I ultimately posted to Decaseconds originally left me asking, “How did I miss these?”

In past cases of reprocessing pictures, I took another approach to images I already knew were solid. This first image today, boat sailing near Point Bonita lighthouse north of San Francisco, is in a whole different category: I hadn’t remember that I’d taken the image at all.

Two Sailboats and Point Bonita

The occasion was a trip to the Legion of Honor and Lincoln Park. Back then, not a single picture made it to Decaseconds. Many of the images from that day suffered from issues that I know how to correct now, but didn’t yet have the tools to conquer in early 2012.

New Year's Day in Lincoln Park

These pictures from a trip to Treasure Island to shoot the San Francisco skyline are likewise mystifying. I posted only a single picture from that trip.

Skyline as It Was

The old and new spans of the Bay Bridge, side-by-side, is a literally now-unseeable image.

When There Were Two

Though a lot of posts came of our trip to the Marin Headlands to shoot the Golden Gate Bridge, this more natural shot of the rocky coastline (those little black dots are sea birds) has its own kind of large-scale glory.

Pacific Hits the Headlands

Of course, a trip back through my photography in the Bay Area wouldn’t be complete without a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge that I previously ignored.

Untitled: Golden Gate Bridge

Big Buildings and Little Ones

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Trinity College Dublin’s campanile was the subject of my last post, but today I’ll bring it back to one I know a bit better. This photograph is another from my series of Berkeley pictures that I’m only now able to reveal with improvements in noise reduction technology. The effect of seeing this “lost” image recovered has me wondering what other moments—

Big Buildings and Little Ones

A St. Lawrence Remainder

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For the past decade (nearly, anyway), I’ve been bringing you pictures from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. With my move to Trinity, I’m running through my final stock of my favorite images. I suspect these will be the last images of St. Lawrence I post (no promises), so it seems fitting that they capture the campus at its most St.-Lawrence-y: crisp autumn evening, foliage lit up by campus fixtures, with a big North Country sunset on the horizon.

Lacrosse at Sunset

Millenium Way

All the Fall Action

Bicentennial Fireworks

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This weekend, my wife and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary alongside Trinity College‘s bicentennial. Given that we met at college, the symmetry felt impactful. Though the fireworks might not have been intended to be exclusively for us, they felt just a little extra special.

Bicentennial Fireworks