NEW YORK NEW YORK – This evening we went to a celebration at the Knickerbocker Club for Words Without Boarders, a not-for-profit that Maria is involved with. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summicron v. 4 lens (the Bokeh King).
On this day last year: the Chrysler Building, a favorite haunt of mine.
Chrysler Building
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’ve taken a break from shooting with my new old lens. Here we are at a small Holiday dinner with some old friends, shot with my Leica Monchrom and 50 Summilux Asph. lens.
Jasper
So what exactly in on the card?
On this day last year: Messing around with my iPhone.
One helluva paint job
SOUTH KENT CONNECTICUT – A holiday party with some friends in a neighboring town. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summilux Asph. lens.
Robert
Aggie and Maria
Yesterday’s photo (demonstrating that I actually managed to take a picture on December 15, 2012, keeping my record alive):
butterflies
On this day last year: Barking Dog.
Barking Dog
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Our local Presbyterian church in New York, Brick Church, celebrates the beginning of Advent every year with a ceremony on the Church steps lighting the trees all up and down Park Avenue, and singing carols. We’re members of Brick but not currently that active because of our weekends in Connecticut. When our children were younger we were very active – I joked at that time that at one time or another I held every non-paying job at the Church. A lovely community. Anyway I took my Leica Monochrom and Noctilux lens to this year’s carol sing.
Carols
On this day one year ago: Still life with iPhone.
Still Life with iPhone
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Francesca had a birthday party at Frankies Spuntino in Brooklyn. Sensational evening. Here are two images taken with my Leica Monochrom and Noctilux lens, and one with my iPhone.
Francesca’s party
Francesca’s party II
More party
On this day last year: Fairway.
Fairway
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent the morning working at my day job and got away in the afternoon in time to stand in line to vote. We had some family and friends over to watch the returns. By 11:00 PM I still hadn’t gotten my picture, so i finally shot the television with Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summilux lens.
Obama wins
On this day one year ago: Not much of an image.
ATM
NEW YOKR NEW YORK – A good day with my camera. We had dinner with Patrizia Chen and some friends of hers. I’m getting even better results from my Leica now that I have glasses that correct my astigmatism. Before Patrizia’s dnner I stopped at Ladurée, an outpost on Madison Avenue of the French cathedral of macaroons. All images taken with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summilux lens.
Patrizia
Dinner
Ladurée
On this day last year: Ceiling. I was struggling here.
Gamercy Park Hotel
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Our annual partners retirement dinner – our firm’s most important social event of the year – at the Four Seasons Restaurant this year. This year I decided to follow one partner around with my Leica Monochrom and Noctilux lens. Here are some samples.
David
David
On this day last year: Construction site party.
Construction site party
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Still here. Warren. This is the best time of the year for this little patch of the Berkshire foothills. It’s foggy and rainy but I managed to shoot some foliage and record a tractor pull moment from the Warren Fall Festival. Leica Monochrom.
foliage
Antique Tractor Pull
On this day one year ago: Central Park Reservoir. This in a single image captures why I’m selling my medium format kit to really specialize on my Leica. Once I get up on a tripod everything turns static and predicable.
Central Park Reservoir
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Here we are in Williamsburg at a launch party for a book by our old friend Antonio Monda. Captures with my Leica Monochrom and f.95 Noctilux lens.
Maria
Party
On this day one year ago: Francesca has a new hat.
Francesca has a new hat
NEW YORK NEW YORK – At dinner with friends. Kimball Chen was in the unfortunate position of sitting directly opposite me while I was packing my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Noctilux lens.
Kimball I
Kimball II
Kimball III
On this day one year ago: Shanghai.
Pudong
NEW YORK NEW YORK – John Novogrod’s birthday party at the Knickebocker Club. Taken with my Monochrom and 50mm Dual Range Summicron.
John
On this day one year ago: Lotus position.
Lotus
NEW MILFORD CONNECTICUT – This afternoon we went to Janine’s and Zaak’s wedding – I was carrying my Leica Monochrom and my f.95 Noctilux lens.
Library
Dancer
Toss the damn thing!
Girls
On this day on year ago: Tom and Andy.
Tom and Andy
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Further exploitation of a long weekend: a Sunday night dinner party with friends in Connecticut. I cooked pulled pork and ribs all day in my Green Egg. Just OK results but people loved it since they don’t have fixed expectations. Taken by candlelight with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Noctilux lens.
Henry
On this day one year ago: Litchfield.
North Street Litchfield
SALT LAKE CITY UTAH – I can hear the question now: “What are you doing in Salt Lake outside of ski season?” The simple answer is that I grew up here and I’ve returned this weekend for my high school reunion – an opportunity to connect with the girl (now a grandmother) who I had a hopeless crush on and with my friend Jerry Stephens, who I did my first photography with (it turns out that it was less important to him than it was to me), and generally to hang out with a bunch of older people who I haven’t seen for a very long time. See my biography link in the column to the right.
I flew to Salt Lake this morning; killed time for a couple of hours driving around photographing old neighborhoods; and then went to a picnic in Sugarhouse Park. The theme of the reunion is “Highland’s Greatest Year” – my senior year we won the state football championship. I shot the entire weekend with my Leica M9 and Noctilux lens, mostly with a .9 neutral density filter at f.95.
Jerry Stephens
Highland’s Greatest Year – 2
Highland’s Greatest Year – 3
Highland’s Greatest Year – 4
On this day last year: Belvedere Castle. Struggling to produce something interesting working on a tripod.
Belvedere Castle
WARREN CONNECTICUT – A dislocated weekend. For today and tomorrow we’ve ceded our house to our daughter, Francesca, for a bachelorette party that she’s throwing for a friend. Dangerous territory. So we’re camping out for the weekend at Doug and Judy Hamilton’s house because they’re on the way to Salt Lake via the California Zephyr (a train!). I spent today photographing Doug and Judy’s house with my Alpa Max and Phase One IQ 180 back. Then the bachelorettes descended on us for cocktails, which I captured in the waining light with my M9 and a 1954 50 mm Dual-Range Summicron lens. Here you go:
Judy and Doug’s House
Judy and Doug’s House
Judy and Doug’s House
Judy and Doug’s House
Judy and Doug’s House
Bachelorettes
Bachelorettes
On this day last year: a picture of a camera. Not really that cool.
Leica M9