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[ecultured]

parker posey photographed by pauline st. denis, 1997 

[ymutate]

Shaman transforming into polar bear": By Inuit carver, Abraham Anghik Reuben

[mattstetsmis]

To be honest, I live in a pretty boring place… It's just very regular, probably a lot like where most everyone reading this will live. Not very glamorous, nothing too cool or photogenic very close..

I love photography though, and I love taking photographs. I try to do it all the time, so that I can continue to improve, because God knows that I need it lol.

Here are a selection of some pictures taken literally just walking around my neighborhood. It will probably look very much like everyone else's; especially if anyone else here is from New England, lol.

I try to elevate the things around me by practicing good composition and photographic techniques, and by trying to see beyond what is obvious, and to see everything with new and fresh eyes. I hope that those of you reading or viewing will enjoy my neighborhood, and my pictures of it :)

[sovietpostcards]

Winter in Pyatigorsk, Russia. Photo by Yuri Zhvanko (1985)

[oldpaintings]

Outside the Opera, Paris, 1879 by Jean Béraud (French, 1849–1935)

[gagarin-smiles-anyway]

Traditional Russian window frame - nalichnik (by Andrei Lisitsyn)

[saeta-obscura]

Kay Nielsen — Our Lady of Sorrows, c. 1920

[my-nichi]

Ohne Titel (aus der Serie: Un chant d'amour, VI) (1978) by Herbert Tobias

[teddypng]

David Cronenberg at The Avoriaz International Film Festival, 1984

[huariqueje]

Autumn Grasses in Moonlight - Shibata Zeshin 1872

Japanese  1807-1891

Ukiyo-e

[divinevivienleigh]

Vivien Leigh as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, photo by John Swope for Vogue, June 1, 1940

[sovietpostcards]

Neva River in Leningrad, photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (1950)

[neshamama]

albert “kid” mertz, “real happiness is cheap yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit,” 1984, paint on wood

[biladal-sham]

Khoury’s surrealist cafe in Ma’An, Jordan. 1995.

Harry Gruyaert

[centuriespast]

A locket with hair from Mary Shelley and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. CreditBodleian Library, Oxford

[rivesveronique]

Femme à la longue chevelure. Renée Maeterlink. 1939. Photographe inconnu

[sci-universe]

Amazing aurora spiral captured by David Cartier.