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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 March 26, 2005 New Spring Leaves, Powderhouse Park, Somerville	Displayed March 26, 2006 Bricks, Crosses and Steeple at Sundown, Cambridge	Displayed March 26, 2007 Winter Chimney Study, Groveland, NY
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Displayed March 26, 2008 Sunlit Late Winter Facades, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston	Displayed March 26, 2009 Seal and Gull, Low Tide at Gloucester, Mass.	Displayed March 26, 2010 Jet Streak Over Sheraton Tower at Prudential, Boston
Displayed March 26, 2011 The Start of Spring Training, Shells on the Charles	Displayed March 26, 2012 Charles River Back Bay Perspective, from B.U. Bridge	Displayed March 26, 2013 Viewport of Downtown Boston, from Rogers St., Cambridge
Displayed March 26, 2014 Silly, Conceding to Portrait, Dell Court, Lynn	Displayed March 26, 2015 Penny Looking at the World From a Different Angle, Lynn	Displayed March 26, 2016 Gulls Hunting in Low Tide Seaweed, Gloucester, Mass.
Displayed March 26, 2017 MIT West Campus Electric Fires Reflecting on the Charles	Displayed March 26, 2018 Monolith Rising in the Back Bay, John Hancock Over Copley	Displayed March 26, 2019 Juvenile American White Ibis, Plantation, Florida
Displayed March 26, 2020 Winter Sunset With Jet Streaks, Friendship, New York	Displayed March 26, 2021 MWRA Wind Turbine Under Heavy Spring Skies, Everett, Mass.	Displayed March 26, 2022 Bike Path at Night, Esplanade, Boston (cross eye stereo)
Displayed March 26, 2023 Sawgrass Mills Parking Perspective, Moments After Sunset	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 7822 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 January 30, 2012 Click image for full view Power Perspective, Sullivan Square, Somerville, Mass.

Sample Photo Displayed July 12, 2014 Click image for full view Recreational Relaxation in Afternoon Sun, Esplanade

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.