My significant 12 of 2012

Every year, around this time, I go back through the pictures that I've taken during the year.

I select 12 as my significant pictures (from a comment that Ansel Adams once made).

These are in date order only.

Hotel de Zouave

Santa and Frosty wish you a Merry Christmas!

Feeding the Fire

Two Angry Birds

Charlie

Church of the Presidents

Zombie Santa is coming to town

Zombama 2012

Great White Egret

Boxing at Gillette Stadium

Rings Fountain

Beached by Sandy

Greenway Fountain

John

First Communion

Greenway carousel

The carousel on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston spins on a quiet night in the city.

Lost boardwalk

The boardwalk in Atlantic City is as famous as the casinos along the beach. After Hurricane Sandy, much of the boardwalk was destroyed.

Young lovers

Making a sock, the old fashioned way

A young girl operates an antique sock darning machine during the 3rd annual Watch City Steampunk Festival in Waltham MA.

Undead text messaging

Scary Clown

Gillette Stadium turf

The artificial turf at Gillette Stadium consists of plastic grass and small rubber chunks.

Sanna Nyassi at Gillette Stadium

Sanna Nyassi, of the Montreal Impact fields the ball during a game against the New England Revolution at Gillette Stadium.

Faxon Field Opening

Faxon Field is situated on land that Frank Faxon gifted to the city of Quincy in 1919.

One of the goalposts.

Mayor Koch opens the field and presents speakers

Mayor Koch cuts the ribbon, officially opening the track and field.

The first runners around the track

Leaving Boston

A passenger on the Norwegian Dawn watches as the ship leaves Boston Harbor enroute to Bermuda.

The pilot arrives

The pilot arrives onboard the Norwegian Dawn during the approach to Bermuda. This passenger snaps a picture over the rail as the pilot's boat comes alongside.

Disco Balls

Emerging from the Queen's Pyramid

Camel at Giza

Edfu Temple

Balloon inflation in Luxor

Cat at the Temple of Apollo

Mycenae Beehive Tomb

Green/Hazel Eye