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 August 19, 2005 Afternoon Traffic, Storrow Drive, near Boston University	Displayed August 19, 2006 Sun and Speed, Charles River	Displayed August 19, 2007 Entrance in Available Light, Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston
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Displayed August 19, 2008 Transportation and Commerce, Dilapidated Pier, E. Boston	Displayed August 19, 2009 Summer Weather and Recreation, Charles River, from Boston	Displayed August 19, 2010 Furball Almost Lost Under a Star, Sylvia in a Recliner
Displayed August 19, 2011 Dusk Old Ironsides, Charlestown Navy Yard, from E. Boston	Displayed August 19, 2012 Buttresses, Lights and Leaves, Holy Cross, Boston	Displayed August 19, 2013 Tobin Bridge and Waterfront, Liberty Plaza, East Boston
Displayed August 19, 2014 Available Light Perspective at Charles River Yacht Club	Displayed August 19, 2015 Dealing With Summer Heat, Charles River, Boston Esplanade	Displayed August 19, 2016 Swimming Duck, Camden, Maine
Displayed August 19, 2017 Mixed Sky Over Harbor Perspective, Camden, Maine	Displayed August 19, 2018 Boston Back Bay and Cambridge Yacht Club in Gloaming Light	Displayed August 19, 2019 Commonwealth Avenue Under Partly Cloudy Summer Sky, Boston
Displayed August 19, 2020 Sunset Cloudscape With Light Beams, Plantation, Florida	Displayed August 19, 2021 MIT Sailing Night Perspective, Charles River, Cambridge	Displayed August 19, 2022 Summer Cloud Study, I-95, New Hampshire
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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 7968 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 March 4, 2020 Click image for full view Winter Road at Sunset, Scio, New York; March Forth 2020

Sample Photo Displayed July 24, 2012 Click image for full view Sunset Spectacular, From Salem Hospital, Salem, 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.