Weekend in Weymouth

Off again in a giant aluminum and carbon fiber reinforced plastic bird to visit Andy and Kristin on the East Coast. There was still film in the PrePopulist.

Beginning at MKE again.

We had flown a few times out of Appleton when Southwest discontinued their non-stop to Logan from Milwaukee. Non-stops are now offered by JetBlue but require a relatively early departure if you have to drive from Oshkosh. JetBlue flies out of the D concourse. Except for last year, the previous time we had been down there was to see Andy to the gate to go snowboarding when he was a teenager, before the current security environment occurred.

Our airplane got away from Detroit late and was further delayed at Logan but we were only 45 minutes late getting off the ground in Milwaukee.

Andy and Kristin have recently had their kitchen remodeled. Shiny new cabinets, appliances and countertops and most notably removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room which had an odd window divided by three mass produced turned balusters. It looks and cooks much nicer now.

The wall was replaced by useful cabinets and some extra countertop so I could place my pinhole camera to photograph us eating Andy's Bolognese.

We drove in to Quincy Adams for a trip into the city.

Ridin' the Red Line from Quincy Adams to about South Station. At 10:30 am, it's rather empty, although you coulda' fooled me that it was rush hour at the Highway 3/I-93/I-95 interchange.

We were on our way to the Museum of Fine Arts. The last time we were there was the day before Andy and Kristin's wedding. The little tripod was sitting on one of those posts that hold the bands that control queues in public spaces while we waited for a table at the New American Café in the courtyard.

The entrance to the special exhibit Fashioned by Sargent, with his portraits of society movers and shakers and some of their clothes and accessories. I was very inspired. Anybody want to sit for a pinhole portrait?

The film in the PrePopulist ended so Philly took over with the same Gilder electron microscope aperture at the same distance to the film, but with just the normal 36mm wide frame

The exit from the special exhibition.

The grand staircase in the oldest part of the building.

The musical instrument room. Always interesting to go to a museum with an Art Major and a Musicologist.

Walking in Weymouth on Saturday morning.

Andy and Kristin's very blue hydrangeas adopt a two-tone outfit in the autumn.

As I was editing photographs, Greyson leaned up against me and fell sound asleep. He stayed there as I got up, placed the camera, sat back down with my computer and opened the shutter. He then moved over with just his rear end in the frame and stayed absolutely still for the rest of the exposure. Maybe he read my post about being inspired by Degas.

We went to visit Barrel House Z, sponsor of Andy and Kristin's run club. In addition to the seating being around barrels, the fences are made out of barrel staves.

There's even a few around the stainless steel brewing equipment. They still use them for some of their special brews.

We were there to see the Plymouth Punk Rock Market which travels to various venues on the south shore. We bought this ornament for their Xmas tree.

I wanted to get a vinyl copy of the new Rolling Stones album to listen to on their analog stereo. The nearest record store was in the South Shore Mall in Braintree. A footbridge crosses from the parking ramp to the second level. The view of the exterior entrance to Target.

From the other side of the footbridge.

Inside the mall.

These footbridges are great. It's like someone gave you a 15 foot tall tripod so you can get parallel verticals without a rising front.

Without moving the camera, tilting it down for the glowing red Target entrance and the perfectly smooth escalators.

Neither the record store nor Target had the album.

Stopped for a light lunch at Untold Brewing's tasting room in Hingham.

On to a wine tasting at Elli's Wine Cellar in Weymouth.

I placed the camera where I thought it would be out of the way for a twenty minute exposure as we enjoyed the dry French wines at the first table. When I checked on my camera it was gone. A man behind a nearby counter had picked it up and it was lying facing up with the shutter still open. He returned my camera and pointed me out to the owner. She said that taking pictures of people without prior permission was a violation of privacy. I tried to explain that it's almost impossible for anyone to be recognized in a twenty minute exposure, but I don't think she understood. She was very anxious about it so I put the camera back in my pocket and enjoyed a very entertaining event. Whatever the ethics of my exposure, I don't think anybody's privacy will be invaded by publishing the resulting image.

Dawn at Logan for JetBlue's only non-stop, or even one-stop flight from Boston to Milwaukee, which will become the flight back to Boston we took on the way here.

After flying for 500 miles over a flat expanse of clouds we encountered this dramatic turbulent band which quickly changed to a brief clear period and then back to the flat stratus layer all the way to Wisconsin.

Home again to the spooky decorating after our hasty early morning departure on November 2nd.

 

Philly has a .15mm Gilder electron microscope aperture 24mm from a 24x36mm frame. The film is Lomography 100, half of the seventh and eighth rolls done in an Arista.edu liquid quart C-41 kit.