Shutter Session: Watch Factory

I live near the old Waltham Watch Factory, and it's my new favorite place to photograph.  I love the old bricks, the view of the Charles River, the way the sunlight streams through the old mill windows.  A few weeks ago Sehily and I spent a fun morning at the Watch Factory, and I got to see whole new parts of the area that were oh-so-photogenic.  I loved finding ways to use the reflective windows, the gigantic flower pots, the gravel paths, and the crumbling piles of bricks to help make some fantastic photographs.

I've always loved how bricks photograph!

Really love the depth of field in the above photo.  It was tricky to get it just so with the lighting, though!  This was actually taken way up high on the wall to where the sunlight was shining, since the bottom half was covered in shadow.  To get up there, THIS is what we had to do...

Just another Sunday morning spent scaling walls!

And another of my favorite photos from the session.  I had Sehily walk away into the path of the sun, and then turn around and come back so I could get the angle of the building behind her.  The laughter there?  Yeah, I totally started singing the "Pretty Woman" theme song at that point!!  hahaha, it definitely got a laugh out of her and the best expression in this photo!

After the Watch Factory, we moved on to a cluster of dogwood trees.  This was the last week they were in bloom, so that timeline definitely spurred me to photograph them.  I love the shots here of the metallic fence against the smooth petals.

As we were leaving, guess what we found?  Oops!