Show not tell

Puddingstone Park

Cut out of the side of Mission Hill to build homes and churches.

I could tell you more, but why waste the words when you can see for yourself.

Forest fires on holiday

Autumn is wonderful, but when the thermostat in your new apartment is a mystery, it helps to remember the warmer, brighter months.

That fog isn't just a lazy summer haze. Quebec was on fire. Wind blew the smoke down to Boston, along with that wonderful campfire scent to keep us company on Memorial Day.

Cue unrelated images itching to get out of my hard drive.

Overcoming intertia

It's still a work in progress, but www.peterleavittphotography.com is up, running, and looking fairly snazzy. At the moment it just has photos, a link to here, and my email, but I don't think it needs much more. Except some more design tweaks over the next couple of weeks.


Here's Galen, an amazing woman, and the lab manager from MassArt whom I visited last week and helped push me off my ass to get this thing going. Let's hear it for mentors and momentum!

A Recent Photographic Aquisition

I recently added a Canonet 35mm rangefinder to my photographic arsenal. Cheap, small, and sturdy with some nice glass. Perfect for letting the eye wander. The following is the first in a series of mini-series photographed with the Canonet. Click on any picture for a larger version.


There is a hole in the heart of downtown Boston where a historic department store used to be, and a brand new skyscraper should be taking form. The company in charge of the One Franklin project has been known to leave projects stalled indefinitely in order to force a city's hand to fund the project itself, rather than put up its own money. The mayor - the entire city - is livid as a nascent monument to progress and prosperity signifies the opposite in its absence.