Hartford – Page 5 – Decaseconds

Clement, Raether, and the Hartford Skyline

2025-Jun-252025-Jun-26 adohertyhLeave a comment

The warm sodium glow of Trinity College’s campus by night—Clement Chemistry Building and Raether Library in the foreground, the chapel and the Hartford skyline in the background—highlights (in a literal, X-marks-the-spot manner) the contrast between being a student and a faculty member here. Though the same institution, the same general campus, I spend my time now in completely different places than I once did. A prime example is the X-marked courtyard between the two buildings—a place I walked through perhaps 10 times total as a student, but where I now pause for coffee with my colleagues nearly every morning.

Core Campus on a Summer Night

2025-Jun-16 adohertyhLeave a comment

Summer nights on Trinity College’s campus are quiet but the paths and buildings remain as effulgent as ever. There’s a luminous quality to this aerial view that really captures the sensory experience of exploring the quads by night.

Long Walk Indomitable

2025-Jun-09 adohertyhLeave a comment

The monolithic shadowed face of Trinity College’s Long Walk is particularly dramatic as morning sunshine bounces from the leaves of the surrounding trees.

(And yes, I’m still six months behind processing pictures. And autumn in New England looks great.)

Marathoners IV

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Emerging from the shadow of Bushnell Tower in downtown Hartford, marathon runners bunch and clump and distribute stochastically through the otherwise-empty streets.

LSC Solar

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Looking over the campus rooftops (and their cozy position in the hills around them), the difference between old and recently renovated is readily apparent in a transformation from black to white-with-solar-panels.

Relaxing on the Quad After Finals

2025-May-30 adohertyhLeave a comment

After the stress of final exams tapers away, seniors have a week to kill time before graduating—and where better to spend it than catching rays on the quad?

Fall at the Red Brick Campus

2025-May-28 adohertyhLeave a comment

Red bricks match red leaves on every tree—except for those elms that stubbornly refuse to turn until months later.

Cork Drawer

2025-May-23 adohertyhLeave a comment

I was searching for a cork to fit an opening in a piece of old-school chemical glassware. In the farthest-away, most-remote corner of an old chemistry lab was simply a drawer labeled “corks”; inside, I found an expansive sea of every possible cork diameter. Nothing more, nothing less than every cork—I felt like I had cast some sort of obscure seeking spell that brought me a “be careful what you wish for” volume of results.

Reading in the Window

2025-May-212025-May-22 adohertyhLeave a comment

Continuing my recent display of discoveries from my college camera rolls, this picture of a friend reading in the open window of my dorm is fairly perfect. The motion blue of passing students outside further highlights her stillness and the open quad highlights the profile.

LSC and Hartford

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With Hartford’s skyline looking on in the background, the brutalist facade of Trinity College’s LSC matches the carefully graded dirt of its adjacent quad before a thick layer of new sod was applied.

Any Bench in the Storm 2004

2025-May-16 adohertyh1 Comment

I decided to make my collection of photographs from my time as a student available to Trinity’s social media team, which required sorting and uploading them. Among the random motion-blurred messes of my past, I encountered the occasional serendipitous moments of actually striking photography.