Friday, December 26, 2008

The Boston Lobster Massacre


Digital camera sensors sometimes have a hard time dealing with heavily saturated images and this is a pretty good example. This was shot at high ISO without a flash, and the sensor obviously was overwhelmed by the mass of red shell, in a reflective stainless steel dish, with warm interior lights the only illumination. That said, hey, it's the holidays and red is the theme, right? These guys were formerly a gang of Maine lobsters plucked from their watery world and sold to our Boston rellies on their way back from Camden (see earlier post). And so, this was dinner on Christmas eve 2008 - a glowing red mass of crustaceans, accompanied by potato and green salads. And all for about US$4 per pound.  

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