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Trinity College Under Snow

2024-Jan-102024-Jan-09 adohertyhLeave a comment

Perhaps the best mark of a place I love is one that keeps its charm throughout the whole year. I only really enjoyed the North Country during the blaze of autumn foliage and I only really enjoy Coachella Valley during the mild temperatures and wet(ter) weather of winter. By comparison, Trinity College is beautiful at every moment of the year. A multilayer of serious snow arrived this weekend and finally brought Trinity into Winter Mode, confirming that this place is basically always fantastical.

Mad Scientist Skyline

2024-Jan-082024-Jan-07 adohertyhLeave a comment

Arcs of lightning through stormy clouds add a strong sense of the Frankensteinian to this summer image of Hartford’s skyline. The storm that just capped the city in snow will soon provide an opportunity for a different kind of mad scientist image.

Center Church with Fireworks

2024-Jan-03 adohertyhLeave a comment

The incongruity of a brick church and centuries-old burial ground amidst modern urban architecture perhaps aligns with posting summer pictures in early January. Hopefully both aspects brighten the New Year!

Fireworks Where the Park Meets the City

2023-Dec-272023-Dec-26 adohertyhLeave a comment

Urban parks take my favorite gradient between nature and cityscape and turn it into a Heaviside function, stepping instantly from one to the other.

Back in the Air

2023-Dec-20 adohertyhLeave a comment

After an unfortunate run-in with a tree on a windy day, my drone is repaired and back in the air. A big, dramatic sunset scene of Trinity College is the perfect capstone for may last day at work this semester. The repaired chapel seemed a fitting parallel to the repaired quadcopter.

Infosys Hub

2023-Dec-182023-Dec-17 adohertyhLeave a comment

I’m sure it’s perfectly innocent, but having an octagonal tower with a vague-yet-tech-themed name glowing atop it shouts “sinister cyberpunk corporation.”

Gates Quad

2023-Dec-08 adohertyhLeave a comment

On an otherwise rectilinear campus, the gentile bubble-arcs of Trinity College’s Gates Quad provide a relaxing geometry that mirrors the true uses of a quad in student life.

Bushnell Tower at Night

2023-Nov-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

I.M. Pei really outdid himself with the design of Hartford’s Bushnell Tower. While the building is carefully monochrome during the day, I love the various colors exploding from the windows at night.

Fireworks by the Capital

2023-Nov-082023-Nov-07 adohertyhLeave a comment

Does anything better match the dome of a capitol than fireworks in the sky and celebratory crowds in a park beneath?

Gold Foliage, Gold Buildings, Gold Street

2023-Nov-01 adohertyhLeave a comment

Saturday marked a final day of warm weather and sunshine before the cold and dark and rain of November closed in on us. The Hartford skyline was positively glowing.

I Can See My House From Here

2023-Oct-272023-Oct-27 adohertyh1 Comment

Peak foliage on Trinity College’s campus looks as effulgent as always, but there’s an added perk in being able to see my downtown-Hartford home in the same shot. (It helps that the building is 27 stories tall, I’ll admit…)

Ultimate Lobster Roll

2023-Oct-232023-Oct-22 adohertyhLeave a comment

A truly “ultimate” lobster roll needs butter, a crispy, toasted roll, and a truly irrational amount of meat. Check, check, and check.

Leaving Before the Fireworks End

2023-Oct-13 adohertyhLeave a comment

Fireworks displays in metro areas always mean serious traffic, but the line of stopped cars along Bushnell Park has clearly formed before the fireworks display even ended. From this vantage point, there’s luckily more to see than traffic; the magenta luminescence of excited lithium ions paints its colors across the buildings and treetops of downtown Hartford.

Two Views from Hartford in the Summer

2023-Sep-29 adohertyhLeave a comment

As summer has officially concluded, I wanted to look back on some images from my first one in Hartford.

Fireworks set off early on the Fourth of July quickly shrouded the area in smoke.

As the moon moves around the horizon, it aligns with different features in the skyline.

Hartford Gotham

2023-Sep-25 adohertyhLeave a comment

The mixture of mid-twentieth-century architecture, spotlights, lightning, soft focus, and color grading all sum to transform Hartford into Tim Burton’s 1989 vision of Gotham.