Aerial photo of the week: Boston Tea Party – 12/16/73

Posted on 12/16/2012 by sdunwell

December 16, 1773 – A great crowd gathered at the Old South Meeting House to hear speeches protesting new taxes on imports, including tea. Shouting “Boston harbor a tea party tonight,” they went down to the nearby docks. Thinly disguised as “Mohawks”, fifty men boarded three East India ships – Dartmouth, Beaver and Eleanor. Breaking open 342 chests of imported tea, they dumped the lot into the harbor.This aerial view shows the new Tea Party Museum and 2 replica ships in the Fort Point Channel.

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Aerial/Architecture photo of the week: State Street

Posted on 12/09/2012 by sdunwell

State Street and Financial District sunset, from the Customs House Tower observatory deck, Boston, MA.  Two-layer image to control contrast.

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Aerial photo of the week: “New Vitality” Downtown

Posted on 11/27/2012 by sdunwell

Front page image Boston Globe 11/26/12 :”New Vitality” downtown, compared with similar aerial photo 10/13/12 helicopter R-22.

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Aerial photo of the week: U Mass Boston

Posted on 11/20/2012 by sdunwell

University of Massachusetts Boston campus view sunrise,  Boston Sunday Globe this week  half-page ad. Helicopter Schweizer 300.  Blue Hill Helicopters.

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Aerial photo of the week: Getty Museum

Posted on 11/15/2012 by sdunwell

Aerial view of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Helicopter R-22. Late afternoon light, winter.

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Aerial photo of the week: Connecticut River sunrise

Posted on 11/08/2012 by sdunwell

Sunrise on the Connecticut river, near Haddam, CT aerial view with wispy river fog

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Aerial photo of the week: Fifth Avenue, New York

Posted on 10/31/2012 by sdunwell

View of Fifth Avenue, Central Park and the Upper Easts Side, from a roof-top on 55th Street. The Pierre Hotel tower is at right. 3 days before Hurricane Sandy.

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Aerial photo of the week: Harvard, MA autumn

Posted on 10/23/2012 by sdunwell

Autumn aerial view with early morning sunlight, Harvard, Mass.

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Aerial photo of the week: Boston, 1860 + reprise

Posted on 10/15/2012 by sdunwell

First aerial photograph in the US, by J. W. Black, Oct 13, 1860. Ambrotype print from a wet-plate negative. Old South Meeting House is at the middle left. Washington Street cuts across lower third. Central Wharf (now Aquarium) top left.  My “same view” photograph made Oct 13, 2012; same time (1:30 PM) same altitude (1200). more to come on “How this was done”

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Aerial photo of the week: Boston, 1860

Posted on 10/15/2012 by sdunwell

First successful aerial photograph in the US, by J. W. Black, Oct 13, 1860. Ambrotype print from a wet-plate negative. Old South Meeting House is at the middle left.  More detail on this image, and my “same view” photograph made Oct 13, 2012 in the next post.

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