Today's Picture

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Study Hall, Boston Public Library, Johnson Building
Display Date:		November 20, 2018
Photographer:		Fred Koschara
Image Date:		November 21, 2017
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 November 20, 2004 Flowering Trees, Cambridgeside	Displayed November 20, 2005 Alto Relievo in Late Afternoon Sun, Commonwealth Avenue	Displayed November 20, 2006 ...And The Creek Don't Rise..., Groveland, NY
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Displayed November 20, 2007 Late Leaves, First Snow, Harvard, Mass.	Displayed November 20, 2008 Autumn Memorial, Boston Commons	Displayed November 20, 2009 Crane Stopped for the Weekend, from Boylston and Tremont
Displayed November 20, 2010 Surfin' the Rocks, Red Rock, Lynn, Massachusetts	Displayed November 20, 2011 First Parish Church, Rev. Allen Park, Dorchester, Mass.	Displayed November 20, 2012 A Silly Monkey With a Straight Face, Lynn, Massachusetts
Displayed November 20, 2013 Architecture Study of Saturated Tones, Strong Memorial	Displayed November 20, 2014 Fall Flowers in Cold Wind, Strong Memorial, Rochester, NY	Displayed November 20, 2015 Nightscape, Fellsmere Park, Malden, Massachusetts
Displayed November 20, 2016 Gray Dusk Skyline With Bare Trees, Medford, Mass.		Displayed November 20, 2017 A Wall of Sewing Machines, Newbury Street, Boston

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 5139 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 October 21, 2005 Click image for full view Wood Island Station, Blue Line, Boston

Sample Photo Displayed October 13, 2017 Click image for full view Flower Bed in Early Morning Light, Arlington, Mass.

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.