Today's Picture

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Display Date:		December 31, 1969
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This site is where I share some of the beauty I see in the world around me with the rest of my community. I hope you like the pictures I've made available.

The picture of the day is changed daily at 3 AM, Eastern Time. If you click on the picture above, you will enter a slide show of the pictures that have been displayed on this site.

I'm writing a Kickstarter proposal to create a movie of the pictures that have been shown on this site. (At 1/3 second per image, it's going to be a 25+ minute movie!) If you would like to know when the Kickstarter is ready, or if you have any comments, please use this form to send me a message. (Relevant entries here will only be used to contact you re. the Kickstarter project.)

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You can also find more information about the PbF Movie project, including the planned Kickstarter reward levels, here on the project page.

Today In Review

Displayed January 29, 2005 Fire Department Headquarters, Boston	Displayed January 29, 2006 Lighted Trees, Comm. Ave. Inbound at Kenmore Square	Displayed January 29, 2007 Winter Tangles, Groveland, NY
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Displayed January 29, 2008 Snow Lit Tree, Take 2, Commonwealth Near Kenmore, Boston	Displayed January 29, 2009 Still Life and Light Study, Cape Elizabeth, Maine	Displayed January 29, 2010 Crown And Tower, Prudential Area From Mass. Ave., Boston
Displayed January 29, 2011 Dry Winter Shoreline, Cape Elizabeth, Maine	Displayed January 29, 2012 Engagement Engraving, Happy Anniversary, Karen!	Displayed January 29, 2013 Engagement Ring Perspective, Happy Anniversary, Karen!
Displayed January 29, 2014 Window Study in Grey, Sparta First Church, Groveland, NY	Displayed January 29, 2015 A Picture of Contentment, Penny Relaxing In Her New Home	Displayed January 29, 2016 A Tower To Climb! Boston's Castle in Available Light
Displayed January 29, 2017 Goose "War" on the Mystic, Medford, Massachusetts	Displayed January 29, 2018 Roiling Sunset Clouds Over Genesee River, Wellsville, NY	Displayed January 29, 2019 The Cape in Hindsight, Flying to Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Displayed January 29, 2020 Electric Bird? Skyscape Over Plantation, Florida	Displayed January 29, 2021 Late Night at Hollywood Station, Hollywood, Florida	Displayed January 29, 2022 Charles River Frozen Sunset, Esplanade Perspective
Displayed January 29, 2023 Sunset Wisps, Wellsville, New York	Displayed	Displayed

There is also a calendar view (by month) of the available pictures which you can use to browse through the site. Note that when you make a selection on a calendar page, it takes you into the slide show at that picture, so that you can scroll back and forth from any date that you find interesting or convenient. (The monthly calendar view remembers which month you last looked at.)

FYI: As of now, there are currently 7766 daily pictures that have been displayed on this site since I first put it online on October 26, 2004.

The pictures in the slide show are displayed at 1024x768 resolution. If you've got a screen with enough space (e.g., 1152x864, 1280x1024 or larger), you'll be able to see the whole picture in your browser window without scrolling. On smaller screens, I'm afraid you'll have to scroll around to see complete pictures - at least for now...

I am working on a program, PbFpaper™, that will allow subscribers to have their winDoze desktop updated from this site each day. Subscriptions will be offered for several different screen resolutions, and the program will allow you to record your favorite selections, and redisplay them as your desktop background any time you want to. Once I have the winDoze version running, I'll be porting PbFpaper™ to FreeBSD and Linux, and at least to OS/X for Macintosh users.

In addition, limited edition prints of the photographs on this site are available through its sister site, LimitedEditionPhoto.com. The photos are printed using pigment-based inks for the maximum image life. Prints are offered either matted, or framed in any of a variety of styles. See the LimitedEditionPhoto.com site for further details.

... and, coming soon, PuzzleByFred.com where some of these photos will be offered as [1000 piece] jigsaw puzzles. (Do you have any preferences? Email your requests to me at puzzle.suggest@PhotoByFred.com - I am open to suggestions...)

... also coming soon, PosterByFred.com where some of these photos will be offered as inexpensive [inspirational] wall posters. (Do you have any preferences? As with the puzzles, I'm open to suggestions, so email requests or ideas to me at poster.suggest@PhotoByFred.com)

Thanks for your interest in my photos! Feel free to send me an email through the "Webmaster" link at the bottom of any page if you would like more information.

Sample Photo Displayed July 10, 2011 Click image for full view Church and State, Independence Day Perspective, Pepperell

Sample Photo Displayed August 11, 2014 Click image for full view Space Cruiser Cloud Coming In Over Crystal Lake, Peabody

Ultimately, the purpose of this site is to support private space exploration and development (see L5Development.com for more information about the effort). As a measure of encouragement to join those enabling it, half of the subscription fees from PbFpaper™ will be deposited into an "L5 dollars" account in the subscriber's name at The L5 National Bank.