Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As Nathan mentioned in an earlier post, we met for the first time yesterday evening for dinner and drinks and had a fine time. We ate at the "No Name" restaurant across the street from his hotel. The "No Name" was originally a diner for the fishermen working on Fish Pier that, like the nearby Durgin Park restaurant, has, with redevelopment, become a tourist destination. When it opened in 1917 there was literally no sign out front identifying it and over the years it developed a reputation for serving the finest seafood in town. Here's Nathan showing off his new 7-14 zoom. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010225.jpg.html or http://tinyurl.com/3yvtjab ... and the upstairs dining room at the No Name. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010230.jpg.html or http://tinyurl.com/2d94s6a It was something of a shock to revisit this part of Boston for the first time in a couple of decades. If it hadn't been for the familiarity of the harbor I could have been anywhere. All the ramshackle old factories, warehouses, small restaurants, run-down piers, and parking lots that screamed "Boston Waterfront" have been replaced by the now commonplace sterile glass, steel, and brick hotels and offices; parking towers; and (mostly) chain restaurants. Historic Fish Pier is still there and appears still to be a working pier, though a suspiciously clean one to my eye, and the grundgy commercial fishing boats seem seriously out of place among the spanking clean buildings and tour boats. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010241.jpg.html or http://tinyurl.com/27fk4cc All taken with the GF-1 and 7-14 f4.0 Lumix zoom. C&C always welcome. Regards, Dick