Pursuits : Elizabeth Thomsen

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Day 19: January 19, 2010
I live in a historic coastal area with lots of places to take beautiful photographs, the kind you see in books or on postcards or calendars. That’s great, but what I really like is the nice little scenes of ordinary beauty like this snowy day view from the parking lot of the Crane River Laundromat in Danvers.

Day 11: January 11, 2010
Just another picture of the cemetery I drive past nearly every day. I took it on my lunch hour. Less than two weeks into this year’s attempt at doing the photo-a-day thing, and I feel like I’m running out of steam. The weekends are fine, it’s the workdays that are so difficult in the long, dark winter. But I’m determined to do really try this year!

Day 10: January 10, 2010

I have taken several photographs of the old Salem Jail complex and the adjacent Howard Street Cemetery in recent years, but none since the groundbreaking last spring for the development of this property. Soon there will be housing units, a restaurant, exhibits on the history of the jail, and I think at least one unit will be for an artist’s workspace.
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Day 9: January 9, 2009
Miles River at Walnut Road, Wenham, Massachusetts

I have many pictures taken at this spot where Miles River flows under Walnut Road. I have pictures taken in every season and all kinds of weather and at all hours of day. Some people think this is my special place, a view that inspires me, but I really started taking pictures here as a matter of convenience. It’s about five minutes from my house, and it’s easy to pull over and park right by the culvert, so I often stop here as I’m passing by, or turn down this road if I just feel like taking a picture before going home. I’m never there for more than ten minutes at a time, often less. I’m a point-and-shoot photographer, and this is just my point-and-shoot place.

And yet, I’ve stopped here so often over the past few years that I’ve become rather attached to the place. I notice changes in the level of the water and the curve of the stream and the pattern of the weeds. I notice the seasonal changes here — what I noticed today was that it was really cold, and that spring is far off.