So I'm sure if you're anywhere near Boston you're following the Red Sox in the World Series right now ! (At least I'd hope so) And in the spirit of their amazing accomplishment of even making it to the World Series, I thought I'd share one of my favorite shots of Fenway Park !

I took this shot a little while back now, when I was just starting out playing with the techniques I now use today for my night time photographs. So with that being said, it was a bit of a trying night to get this shot right, but once I got this one, I knew I had what I wanted. 

I love Boston, and I love it even more at night, and it doesn't hurt to have the oldest Major League Baseball Stadium still in use in there either :)

So with that being said, I'm hoping to see that empty stadium soon full of proud Red Sox fans celebrating !

Let's go Red Sox !

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I'd say that the Arc de Triomphe is the second most iconic structure in the beautiful city of Paris, only after the Eiffel Tower of course. It was built to honour the soldiers who fought and died in the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars, and I've been told that it was designed so that the sun comes through a special way on Napoleon's birthday, but I haven't confirmed that.

So I was in Paris for a few days already and I was itching for a big adventure. I was hopping around Paris all day from Metro to foot, up and down random streets till I ended up at Place de la Concorde, which is at the top of the Champs Elysees, a very beautiful and famous street in Paris. My goal was to get the Arc at around sunset so I headed down the long street of the Champs Elysees.

It was around 8 in the evening when I got there and I was all set to capture my great sunset and night photos of the amazing Arc de Triomphe !! Well, I would have been, if it wasn't for one small problem....the sun wasn't setting. After Googling to make sure that the Earth was still spinning and that the sun wasn't broken, I looked up the sunset time for the day. It was around 10:30. At night. How quickly I had forgotten the long days of the Parisienne summer.

So with time to kill I decided to check out a few very fancy shops that I could barely afford to walk into, let alone purchase anything, made my way around the entire rotary, crossing what seemed like 50 streets, and finally playing a good game of "How many tourists photos can Sean Gold sneak into". Then I just took a seat by the rotary and just watched the world go by until the sun began to fall and the light began to come alive.

This is one of the photos I took right as the sun started going down, from the middle of the street. After this, I shot there until the sun disappeared beyond the horizon, then made my way back up the Champs Elysees to photograph the fountains at Place de la Concorde, then jumped the Metro back home.

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So I don't remember the exact date, but it was around this time 2 years ago that I finished editing the last of the photos for the book, therefor finishing my part of what would be the book for the City of Sunny Isles Beach in Miami, which really marked the beginning of the path I've been on for these last 2 years.

It was on March 21st of 2011 that I purchased my first DSLR camera, the Canon EOS 60D and the 18-135mm IS lens. It was with this camera that I went to Sunny Isles Beach in Miami for about 3 weeks to shoot over 20 different hotels and condominium buildings for an architectural book for the City of Sunny Isles Beach.

Now here I am today looking back at all the stepping stones and events since then. It feels like it was ages ago that I began this adventure, but to realize it's only been a little more than 2 years, and what I've accomplished in that short time is more than I sometimes realize.

Contrary to what you might think, but it was tough starting out by doing a book of that caliber. Not for the work or stress of the book, but to have that as your first break, knowing that what you'd be doing after wouldn't be of the same level. It was like starting at the mountaintop, then falling down, only to have to begin your climb back to the top. 

I sometimes feel under accomplished or that I'm not moving forward, and I think that is sometimes due to what I had mentioned before about starting with the book, but I'm using this time today to recap all that I have been fortunate enough to do in these short 2 years and put it into perspective.


Since I picked up my first DSLR camera a little more than 2 years ago, I've been fortunate enough to photograph for a published book for the #1 travel destination city in the U.S along with a retired playboy photographer of 35 years. Once returning from there I was featured as The Artist of the Month for the city of Methuen and had an exhibition in the Mayor's office. From there, on a whim, I submitted a few images to The Griffin Museum of Photography for their Juried Exhibition, only to my surprise to receive an email informing me that one of my images had been selected. Following that, I was offered my own exhibition with The Griffin on my images of Horn Pond, which is on its second showing now. Lastly, this year I was granted an all access pass by Red Bull to photograph The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series as they stopped in Boston over the summer.

These are just a few of the key opportunities I had been fortunate enough to have, and even more recently that I'm now selling my images as art in a store on Charles Street in Boston and seeing sales.

Here I am at 23 years old, 24 in two days, no formal photography training, no pieces of paper certifying that I've been taught to see the world in a unique way and that I know how to operate a camera. Self taught and fueled by my own passion and determination to create, if only just to leave behind nothing more than something beautiful.

These words are for me as much as they are for you, this wasn't planned out and edited, making cohesive points, but was written in the moment with the words that came to mind. So if you've taken the time to read this jumbled assortment of ideas and reflections, I thank you and hope to share more amazing images with you in the future, and for a long time to come.

Regards,

Sean Gold