As I mentioned before, the winter sun is beautiful but you have to go out in winter to actually see it:

Its the world of cubes and squares and rhombuses and octagons over on that side of the Charles. It was all so organized and ordered. Usually that kind of stuff drives me insane, but this I really found cool. I am eternally fascinated by such ordered universes. Something inside of me makes me want to mess with all of this:

Today, I wandered. Well, me and my trusty sidekick, Mr. EOS XSI wander a lot but today we wandered to a totally exotic location. Grand Canal? Moscow? Wendy’s?

No.

Today I took the T and got off at Kendall MIT instead of Harvard. I know, risky move on my part, but heard there are some interesting things over on that side of the Charles. The trip did not disappoint, at least in the picture department. I got off the T and suddenly, everything was square and geometrical and sideways looking. Don’t believe me? Well, see for yourself:

See what I mean? Up is down, down is up, night is day, day is night. Well, not quite, but I did see a guy wearing a baseball cap with a bird attached to it with a binder clip.

By the way, isn’t the winter light beautiful?:

Ah yes, that lovely winter sunlight, how I do love it. I have so many comments on how lovely the winter light is, but it has one drawback. You actually have to go outside in winter to experience it and experience it I sure did. As I walked around taking these and the following photos, I wondered allowed if it could get more cold, but then I concluded it could, but then we’d all be dead. But masochist that I am I kept right on walking until my legs nearly went numb. Don’t worry, blog audience. I am safely warm sipping a winter appropriate beverage listening to some kind of ick college rock.

I promise more pics and here they are:

So far, these. In a little while, more. The frozen walk was very interesting…

If there were an award to be given for three of the weirdest photos ever taken, I’d like to enter these into the contest.  A brief explanation of why I believe this will follow each contender.

Example #1:

Well, OK, this is Venice and I have an inexhaustible supply of these photos.  Nevertheless, unless there is a blood bath, the Grand Canal isn’t usually red.  Did I go a little too far with the processing?  Sure.  Do I always?  Well, yeah, kind of.  The more I looked at the photo, the more I thought of it being on the cover of some kind of mystery novel about Venice.

Example #2:

Well, in case it wasn’t obvious, I choose this one because of the subject matter.  Those are some strange mannequins, aren’t they?  Well, they are noblemen from Venice, with their heads attached to women’s bodies.  Not your everyday sort of thing, eh?  Not to mention that they were resting at a store that had a nice sign on the front that said “I open sometime.”  Nice, right?

Example #3:

The single tree shots are probably pretty boring to people by this point and I get that, but I’ll justify why I worked on this one.  I could see its potential and I could see lurking in there was a greater photo and I think this is.  Yes the post processing is insane, but I think it adds quite a bit to the whole thing.

So I ask you now, blogging audience, lend me your eyes.  Which do you think is the weirdest of them all?

See, see aren’t I?:

And nothing I could possibly say in an entry could detract from the beauty of this image:

OK, maybe I have taken stranger.  Those of you familiar with my other work probably know I have taken stranger than this one, but right at this second, I think this one is pretty darn strange.

I love fashion and style and I want my photos to reflect that, at least a little bit.  I pour through Vogue every month looking for inspiration and believe me, as long as Anna Wintour is at the helm of that thing, it is hard to find, but sometimes I even find inspiration in the things that are boring or that I dislike.  What does that have to do with this upside down, weird photos?  Beats me, but I can tell you it has a little Mert & Marcus in it and a little Guy Bourdin but also hopefully me at the same time.

Look out, here comes:

I cannot begin to explain how fascinated by things that are too small, too big and extremely out of place in their current setting. Evidence: