Question Photo's around Boston?

I live in the downtown area of Boston area. As one area that seems to come up in stories is Boston. I can try to get so general Photos for people if they would like of different things. I also work with Adobe Photoshop, some. So I could possibly try to do some masking and blending work to the photos for people as well.

I am offering this as I am not a very good writer myself but enjoy the stories offered here and wanted to be able to help out is someway if possible.

Rebeca_Lynn wrote: I live in the downtown area of Boston area. As one area that seems to come up in stories is Boston. I can try to get so general Photos for people if they would like of different things. I also work with Adobe Photoshop, some. So I could possibly try to do some masking and blending work to the photos for people as well.

I am offering this as I am not a very good writer myself but enjoy the stories offered here and wanted to be able to help out is someway if possible.

That would actually be kind of cool. Not sure if TINCC will want to use that kind of thing or not, but it doesn't hurt to ask, and I'm sure some of the fanfic authors might be interested as well, if your offer extends to them too.

NeoMagus wrote:

Rebeca_Lynn wrote: I live in the downtown area of Boston area. As one area that seems to come up in stories is Boston. I can try to get so general Photos for people if they would like of different things. I also work with Adobe Photoshop, some. So I could possibly try to do some masking and blending work to the photos for people as well.

I am offering this as I am not a very good writer myself but enjoy the stories offered here and wanted to be able to help out is someway if possible.

That would actually be kind of cool. Not sure if TINCC will want to use that kind of thing or not, but it doesn't hurt to ask, and I'm sure some of the fanfic authors might be interested as well, if your offer extends to them too.

I can't speak for the others, but when I'm doing research for a story and setting, that's exactly the type of detail I want available to weave into the story and descriptions. Little details make or break a story.

The offer is open to both or general photos around the area as well that can be used for the wiki and other canon purposes as well.

Just let me know what types of photos you would like.

I try my best not to take photos with bystanders in them unless the are the focal point of the photo ( is. boaters runners on the river ).

I use public transport in the area and the photos need to be of public areas are my only requests.

I will make another thread with a few sample pics as examples.

I also ask that you acknowledge me for the photo as well if it used in print or on-line.

Rebeca Lynn

you could upload some photos to the wiki, attaching them to the stories that have scenes in Boston.

Is the info from the old website and wiki going to be transfer to the new website and wiki. Because right now there is very little information in it. I am not sure what types of photo's people would like me to post as well.

A few ideas or locations would be helpful and then I would try to go from there.

Never mind, I looked at the first page, and did not realize the links there. Still not much mentioned about Boston from what I was reading so far. I will work on something. Please let me know what everyone thinks would help the most.

Rebeca_Lynn wrote: Never mind, I looked at the first page, and did not realize the links there. Still not much mentioned about Boston from what I was reading so far. I will work on something. Please let me know what everyone thinks would help the most.

Well, considering how often trains that go through Boston are used in the stories, getting some pictures of the train stations (and perhaps some of the area immediately surrounding them) would potentially be useful.

That is funny, because, I am headed to South Station this afternoon, to pick a friend up from Greyhound. Which the Amtrack Station for trains coming from New York and the Commuter Rail System is in the same Building. I will be at North Station which is where the trains would leave from going north. It is also where the Celtics and Bruins play. I will get some photos of both areas and the main stations. As Both are in Nice areas.

Regarding your generous offer of taking pictures for the Wiki:

Generally speaking, any photo would be welcome if it illustrated something that appeared in a story, particularly if it has its own wiki page. The problem is that many of the places mentioned in story appear to be fictional. I mean, I would love having a pic for the Roxbury prison... except it doesn't seem to have a real-world counterpart (but then, I never have been to Boston, so I know nearly nothing about it. I could be wrong). Charge 3 (Point d'Inflexion) has a number of scenes in real places around Boston, which could be nice to illustrate. Maybe there are scenes in one of the Boston Brawls or "No Beast So Fierce" which would benefit of illustrations. "Summoning Sweeties" also has a number of scenes around the city.

Even if there are no direct counterparts, you might think of a decent expy, that is, something that is very close to the fictional place mentioned in the story -- an imposing building that could conceivably house one of the various fictional museums mentioned, stuff like that. Just be sure to include the real-world description with the image credits; we can argue later about how best to put the fictional-word descriptions, but you are the only one with the real-world data. Something like "Such-and-such building at Whatever avenue, used to represent the Fakestuff Museum" or "old abandoned warehouses, similar to the ones demolished in Parkour Jam Hooligans".

Boston is important enough to the Whateley stories that it has its own wiki page; it could benefit even from more generic shots from around the town (especially if you feel up to contributing to the text, too -- a native Bostonian's guide to the city, if you will). Neighborhood shots might be nice too -- I don't think that the neighborhood where the Parkour Jam happened was mentioned in "Parkour Jam Hooligans", but you might have some idea where these sorts of events tend to happen, and an establishing shot of the place would be informative.

Oh, and be SURE to register as a Wiki user so your pictures are tagged with the appropriate authorship. You may choose the license you feel more appropriate, but I think "uploaded by the copyright holder" (which preserves your full rights to the pics) would be good in this case. We are not obsessive about it but we like to give full credit to authors.

Will register as a Wiki user and tag the pics as well.

I will have to wait until Monday or Tuesday as the Red Subway line that also runs under South Station, was closed to day.

South Station, which is the Amtrack station for trains coming in from the South and the Bus station which is a much new building next door.

I have to go to one of the Federal Building on Monday, to the Social Security Office for some paper work, which is next to North Station or other wise know as TD Gardens. This would be the Train Station which the Students would be using to catch trains north to the School. The neat thing about this is the station is on the first floor and TD Garden, which is where the Boston Bruins and Celtics Play.

I will try to get some pics of this area while I am in the area on Monday as well. I will also try to get several more general pics of areas and post them, then get more detailed pics of areas after that point as well.

I enjoy taking pictures and find it relaxing, plus it gets me out of my place which I need to do more of. So this is a good thing for me and I hope it will help the writers to give more details and a better story.

Be careful taking pictures of the Train Station.

Charge, Headrush, and Automa-Tech visited Paul Revere's house, Old North Church, Faneuil Hall, site of the Boston Massacre, Bunker Hill memorial, USS Constitution, Boston Commons,

The Boston Gallery of Antiquities (Or really any little museum).

An LGBT bookstore, bonus points for a rainbow flag.

Something iconic from Harvard.

Random museums.

I was walking around the train station last night. Unable to get pictures of the outside of the building due to city buses being parked around it with the subway being shut down. But inside there was several people inside taking photo's of the building. The building it self is a mix of design styles but has been around for close to 100 years or better. I will get a few pics from the street side and from the train side on Monday, the same from the other station.

Each of the other locations Old North Church, Boston Massacre, Boston Commons and Faneuil Hall are all downtown and will be quick to get to and easy for me to get photos of. Faneuil Hall is a Shopping Center, so will try to catch it during the week when it is not busy for better photo's.

Paul Revere's House, USS Constitution and Bunker Hill are a bus ride away for me so not a problem.

I know of a few different Book Stores that will work and a few different sites at Harvard that will work as well.

I will also as others have suggested be trying to add photos of item of other importent items places or things.

I was comfortable writing most of the scenes in Boston that I used with Charge's visit to Boston (Point d'inflexion) in the more common 'touristy' ones, because I've been to Boston many times for conferences, work-site visits, etc. But other parts I avoided, like the train stations, and decent photos would have been very helpful to expand the stories by a few paragraphs or so. Having someone who lives there and could get more details of the less touristy-areas would have helped add a little more 'local color'.

I will be trying tog get out get photo's that people have suggested.

It may be slow going as I fell and broke the bone on the outside of my left hand yesterday. The doctor s at the VA are not sure if they want to pin it yet so for now it is in a splint.

The weather is quickly changing up here so I hope that it stays nice and allows me to get the shots needed for now.

Sorry it has been a while without any update or photos.

I fell inside of my apartment while cleaning of all things and cracked, partially broke two bones on the outer part of my left hand last Monday. I had to wait for some swelling to go down and for my pinkie to stop hurting to much as I jamb it as well. As I use my left hand to support the camera. I am feeling better and picked up a new lens today. So I will be going out in the morning to test it out and to get some pics.


I do have a few photos I am wanting to post up that I think would be good story or at least ideas for for stories. Some have been photo-shopped some some have not. If a photo has been photo-shop-ed I will let everyone know upfront outside of the basic color correction and such.

For the Photos I will start a new topic for them.

Good to hear that you're recovering from your injury, and please don't feel like you have to rush anything for our sake. Pictures will certainly prove useful/helpful, but it's not worth injuring or re-injuring yourself and it certainly isn't overly time-sensitive.

That said, I am excited to see what kind of pics you end up posting, whether photoshopped or not. Just the fact that you're going somewhat out of your way to provide them at no charge for the authors who might find them useful makes them definitely worth seeing in my opinion.

Not out of my way at all. I need to get out more and this is a good reason to do so. It gives me something to do, so I am not staring at my computer, xbox or tv all the time. I got the camera to take pictures now I have something to take photos of. Plus I am sure I will find more that I will want tot take just for me.

I uploaded 10 photos to the Wiki part of the site, from my walking around to day. I will head up north a little bit this weekend towards MIT and Harvard areas.

I recognize a few but its from a game.

If you click on the photo's I tried to put a discription on each on of them.

I am going to have to see if I can get Sir Lee to do, a basic layout on the Boston page for me and I will figure it out from there. So I know how they want it done, since it is not my page.

Well, inserting the photos in the page is no big deal, but I don't know Boston enough to figure out how best to use them.

I will take a regular map and a MBTA ( Bus and Subway map ) and lay out the locations of where the photo's were taken and other points of interest. I will also go back and reread the Boston Brawl story and others mentioned.

I can layout a map with numbers to indicate the photo, that goes with it. Along with giving some other basic information as well.