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Boston at night

            Yes, yes, I know, this is that place all the 17 year old girls take ridiculous selfies.  Yes, it is.  And at the risk of sounding like a very broken record, I am always trying to take a classic image but adding a twist.  After all, these kinds of images are classic for a reason.  Right? I don't want to turn my back on them just because they are popular.  In fact, if this scene were a person, it would be sad from all the selfies and would crave someone to treat it with respect, and portray the scene with justice and dignity.  Thats what we did here.  Serious image, for a serious place.   We made the scene smile, thank you very much.  

So the twist?  Well, its a night shot.  Not many of those.  Want to know a fun fact that the tourist books don't tell you?  When you go at night you still have crowds, but not crowds of people.  Tiny quadrupeds.  You get rats.  While we were shooting this scene, the rats were everywhere.  We finally stopped counting them.  At one point they almost carried us away.  You may be able to see in the scene as blurry dark spots as they ran through a slow shutter frame.  My son was with me, he is the tripod monkey.  He was freaking out.  He would not sit still, he kept trying to chase the rats away.  This added to the moment for sure, because we were trying  to be very respectful of the folks who live here, so we were tip-toe quiet.  Except Wilson.  He is trying to tell the rats off.  This kept waking a dog nearby, who would start barking at Wilson.  Sigh.  So my buddy Tom and I are trying to get the shot, while keeping the rats off us, and keeping the dog and Wilson quiet, all the while also trying to keep an eye on the car which was very questionably parked.   It would be a long walk back to the air-bnb from here for sure.  

Ok, that's the story.  Let me know what you think of the image.    Oh, BTW, I don't think I mentioned it, but this Acorn Street.

Taken in: United States / Massachusetts / Boston / Beacon Hill (show map)

Taken on: August 10, 2022

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