Today's Picture

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Hay Rake, Wellsville (cross eye stereo)
This is a cross-eye stereo pair: To view the 3D image, pick a distinct feature of the picture and its match in the opposite image. Hold your hands with fingers straight, pointing up, about a quarter of the distance from your eyes to the screen so there's a "window" between them that's the same apparent width as one of the images. Cross your eyes until the two images overlap. You should then be able to comfortably see, in the center of your field of view, the merged image with a clear perception of depth in the picture. The effect is much easier to see in the larger image of the slide show - or when viewing a print from Limited Edition Photo.
Display Date:		November 1, 2026
Photographer:		Fred Koschara
Image Date:		October 30, 2018
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 1, 2004 Windows of Fire # 13, Cambridge, Esplanade view	Displayed November 1, 2005 Belly Dancer, Halloween Party, Boston	Displayed November 1, 2006 Lechmere Construction 2006, Cambridge
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Displayed November 1, 2007 Window Garden at Night, Cambridge	Displayed November 1, 2008 A Little Too Much to Drink, Tipsy? Medford, Mass.	Displayed November 1, 2009 Park Bench Perspective, Lynn Woods Rose Garden
Displayed November 1, 2010 Foliage and Flag, Manchester, New Hampshire	Displayed November 1, 2011 A Riot of Color, Fall Foliage, Somerville, Massachusetts	Displayed November 1, 2012 Late Night Marketing In Available Light, Kendall Square
Displayed November 1, 2013 Autumn Perspective, Off Route 1, Saugus, Massachusetts	Displayed November 1, 2014 They Only Come Out At Night - Lawn Monsters, Lynn, Mass.	Displayed November 1, 2015 Late Season Apple Tree, Brookings Street, Medford, Mass.
Displayed November 1, 2016 Boylston Street Traffic at Hynes After Sunset, Boston	Displayed November 1, 2017 Brilliant Fall Foliage, Mystic Valley Parkway, Cambridge	Displayed November 1, 2018 Fall Foliage In Rainy Weather, Wellsville, New York
Displayed November 1, 2019 Remembering Mom and Dad on All Saint's Day, Wellsville	Displayed November 1, 2020 Mural Perspective With Moon, Old Davie School Museum	Displayed November 1, 2021 Lakeside Tree, St. Tropez Apartments (cross eye stereo)
Displayed November 1, 2022 Gradations of Sunrise Sky, Hollywood, Florida	Displayed November 1, 2023 Waiting For a Call, From a Different Time, Boylston St.	Displayed November 1, 2024 Fort Point Channel Reflections, Boston, Massachusetts
Displayed November 1, 2025 RIP Sleeping Beauty, Penny, Lynn, Massachusetts

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 6737 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 11, 2021 Click image for full view Sunset Sky Over MIT Perspective, Charles River, Boston

Sample Photo Displayed December 14, 2010 Click image for full view Winter Fog Illuminated, Huntington Ave. at West Newton St.

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.