This theme was all about the new season. The beginning of October meant summer is officially and fully over, so I decided to embrace it photo-wise. Fall is also my favorite season: dressing in layers, cool sunny days, football Saturdays, a bounty of farm produce, and those colors! Sometimes it's hard work finding signs of fall foliage in the city, especially when the coast is a bit behind the peak season inland. But I lucked out (and maybe also timed this theme) that another instameet was scheduled during the same week with @IGBoston.
I had a great time at the last meet-up and had been looking forward to another one for a while. This is the first one that worked out schedule-wise, and it was planned for the Arnold Arboretum. A literal tree reserve on the outskirts of the city, what better place to find foliage?! It's also a very different subject matter than I normally focus on and gave me a chance to take more portraits and pictorials. I included my favorite shot below, and you can see all the photos from the meet on my Instagram feed.
All the other photos below are from my neighborhood or a quick jaunt to an apple orchard about 20 miles from the city. I wanted to keep it as local as possible, even though there are more beautiful colors out west of the city. I feel like there are so many more fall photos to take, but alas, my time frame is over, and it's on to another theme!
InstaMeet = InstaFun
This weekend was the ninth World Wide Instagram meet-up, and the Boston IGers chapter had it's own version. They hold meet-ups almost once a month, but I haven't been to one before, since I'm pretty new to Instagram. They always post great photos afterward that look like a lot of fun, so I decided to go it alone and get some shots. Plus they planned to walk the Seaport District, and it was a good opportunity to photograph an industrial, urban area I haven't had the chance to get to in a while.
In a nutshell, it was awesome. We had a huge group of people and great weather. It's fun to hang out with a group of photographers who all stop and take photos along the way, and no one gets annoyed that it takes 20 minutes to go two blocks. We may have caused a few traffic jams when our whole group would fan out at a great photo opp. It was amazing to be around so many people who thought the same things were visually interesting.
For instance, someone thought one of the girls who was wearing a green dress would look great holding the Instagram-issued red balloon up against the brick. Naturally, so did everyone else. So while the pictures themselves came out great, what was even better was the behind-the-scenes photo of all of us trying to get the shot. Photographers really know how to make a crowd.
Below are the group of photos I posted to Instagram from the day. I'll be back to my regular themes this week, but couldn't help sharing these shots with the new friends I met. Check out all the photos from the Boston meet-up, which also continued on Sunday with a trip through Beacon Hill. And if you've thought about coming along on one of these before, definitely do so next time. It's a really welcoming, supportive and fun community to be a part of! Follow IGersBoston for all the details.
