Today's Picture

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First Human Orbital Spaceflight, 60th Anniversary Collage
Yuri's Day, April 12, is one of the L5 National Holidays. It celebrates Yuri Gagarin's 12 April 1961 first human orbital spaceflight of the Earth, the first human to travel into space. Yuri's Night is "the world space party" celebrated across the globe - and into space. For more information about the Yuri's Night World Space Party, see https://yurisnight.net/ For more information about the L5 National Holidays, see https://L5Nation.com
Display Date:		April 12, 2021
Photographer:		Fred Koschara
Image Date:		November 7, 2015
Camera:		Sony Alpha A99
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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 April 12, 2005 Arthur Fiedler Statue in Spring, Esplanade	Displayed April 12, 2006 Aerospace Engineering Department, MIT	Displayed April 12, 2007 Luna, the Next Step, from Groveland, NY
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Displayed April 12, 2008 Early Spring Swan Boats, Boston Public Garden	Displayed April 12, 2009 Silhouette, Church of the Covenant, Boston	Displayed April 12, 2010 Yuri's Night, Dusk Moon, Silhouette Branches, Groveland
Displayed April 12, 2011 Moon Over Medford, Honoring Vostok 1's 50th Anniversary	Displayed April 12, 2012 Purple Azaleas, MWRA Water Works, Saugus, Massachusetts	Displayed April 12, 2013 Nesting Canadian Goose, Groveland, New York
Displayed April 12, 2014 Spring Moon Over Trees, Recreation Road, Newton, Mass.	Displayed April 12, 2015 Follow The Sun, Setting Beyond Boston's Horizon	Displayed April 12, 2016 Yuri's Night, Celebrating 55 Years of Human Spaceflight
Displayed April 12, 2017 Fireworks, Boston Esplanade. Happy Yuri's Night!	Displayed April 12, 2018 Sun Through Windowed Clouds Over Construction, Somerville	Displayed April 12, 2019 Happy Yuri's Night 2019! Collage by Fred Koschara
Displayed April 12, 2020 Setting Sun(s), Pembroke Blvd. Happy Yuri's Night!

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 6013 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 December 21, 2015 Click image for full view The Fires of Industry Lighting a Foggy December Night

Sample Photo Displayed November 8, 2006 Click image for full view Tire-track Clouds, West of Copley Square

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.