Busy busy day

In highschool, my principle, Mr. Anderson had given me the nickname of 'Lost in Boston' after a project I had done for his class. I won't get into the details on THAT but let's just say that that would have been a very accurate name for me again today.

I got into the office today and Samantha had a huge photo assignment for me for the day. I was going to be shooting for our Panorama Guide to.. portion where we do a full page spread of a certain activity in Boston. For example, in our last issue it was Panorama Guide to Outdoor Shopping, featuring 10 different locations. This issue we were focusing on Hidden Gem Restaurants within the city and surrounding areas. This meant that I had to 1. Find the contact information for each restaurant 2. Actually get in touch with their PR rep to set up a shoot for THAT DAY and 3. Get to all of these places within a day even though I had virtually no idea where they were located (the whole thing was to focus on little, off the beaten track restaurants) nevermind where they were in relation to one another. Samantha said that I could also finish them up the next day, being Wednesday, but my family and I had already all taken that day off from work to spend as a family, so Wednesday was out in my book. I was able to contact the initial 7 and set up shoots for that day fairly easily, but the remaining 3 were proving themselves tricky. By the end of the planning phase I had a plan to shoot 7 on Tuesday (still a LOT of work) and the remaining 3 on Thursday morning before I had to have the photos submitted by noon on Thursday to go to print.

I tried to plan so that the restaurants I was going to were at least in an order so that I could go to ones close to each other in a cluster, but of course that was not able to happen, so I spent a good part of the day running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
After getting lost going to good old shoot number 2, and having no idea where my prefered and reliable source of transportation would bring me near these places, I quickly learned it was my day to start taking Boston Taxis.

Fun Fact (or more annoying actually): During the 1930's in the Great Depression there was a cap limit put on the amount of taxis cabs that were allowed to be in Boston. For some unknown reason, this law is yet to be changed. Making it EXTREMELY difficult to obtain a taxi in this darn city..

After everything go rolling I actually had a LOT of fun for this assignment. As stressful as it was a times to find the locations I was going to, and keep on my very tight schedule I feel like I really started learning my way around the city today. Most of the restaurants could not have been more fun, interesting, or nice. I went everywhere from Sports Bars, to high-end Mexican restaurants, to Gay Bars, to Roast Beef Shops, and Fine Dining establishments to hole-in-the wall Burger joints. Being 'Hidden Gems' many of these places didn't have more than 10 tables, with about the same amount of bar stools.
I quickly learned that this was another way to go for Dining in Boston. Food trucks and Hole-in-the-Wall places.

This is a snapshot of the images taken by me and used for Hidden Gems of Boston