good places to shoot in boston?

[thelovecollect]

i was thinking of taking a daytrip to boston...
haven't gone up there since high school..

anyone know the city well? do you have suggestions to where to go for some good street photography?

 

[ddimaria]

Dorchester and South Boston are interesting if you want to see something most visitors don't get to see.

 

[peter_n]

Back Bay especially Newbury St., the John Hancock building (get around to the thin side of the building and walk until it is simply a sliver of glass sticking up into the air - Copley Square is a good place for this), Beacon Hill (bring a wide angle), Boston Common and the Public Gardens, the River Charles from MIT, the USS Constitution in Charlestown Harbor, Harvard Square, to name but a few... 🙂

 

[terrafirmanada]

ROckport and Gloucester are home to me and have variable street atmosphere this time of year. Newburyport is also nice. But if you are sticking around town, then I think that southy is good for pubs, Harvard for any type of activism, and historic regions for tourists.

 

[RObert Budding]

Haymarket.

http://www.boston-online.com/cityviews/haymarket.html

The North End is nice, too.

Fenway Park - but you'd better pull for the Sox while you're here. We need all of the help we can get. Do you have a strong arm? Are you a leftie?

 

[pesphoto]

If youre in Boston this weekend or in the near future go check out this gallery showing NYC street photog Matt Weber. Reception is this Saturday.
Here is his website with a link to the showing. (upper left of his home page)

http://www.funtigo.com/urbanphotos?g=1354475&cr=1&rfm=y

 

[IGMeanwell]

TLC ... you are going to place near and dear to my heart

During the day Newbury St has many street musicians, miscalleneous but interesting looking people hanging around Newbury comics or Gold Nuggets

at night Landsdown st. next to Fenway Park is a bivy of college activity. Though if you walk down commonwealth ave to Alston there is a steady bar life that is packed especially on thursday nights.

The Financial District (City hall area) will have the best city scapes however bolyston st is where the Prudential and the baby Pru are located.

The North End is great for its atmosphere, people and great food.

The Common is always scenic and full of interesting characters

If I were back at school with the interest in photography I have now... I would have taken the majority of my pictures on BU's campus (Boston University) ... its right on Comm ave stretching from Brighton ave to Kenmore square and everday you have 30,000 students walking up and down getting where they need to go.

I could go on but you can always PM me for more detailed info

 

[thelovecollect]

IG, it looks like i might be meeting up with tasty on sunday and he's going to show me around..

thanks to everyone else who made travel suggestions. i will try to shoot as much as i can in 8 hours...

 

[thelovecollect]

just an update, i went to boston on sunday..

saw 2 marching bands, a costa rican parade of 20 people, the entire freshman class at harvard, lots of friendly people, lots of red socks gear, a dog show, no garbage cans, and lots of hooded sweatshirts..

still developing film, will post results in the gallery soon..

 

[IGMeanwell]

Looking forward to the pics!!

It will be interesting to see your perspective compared to Tasty's