WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our wildflower cultivation in Connecticut seems to be limited to dandelions, at least this season. I set my Leica up on a tripod with my 24mm Summilux lens framing a field of dandelions from about 2 feet away to the horizon. I then took 7 exposures focusing at various distances, and combined the images in Helicon Focus, “focus stacking” software. The combined images are sharp from the close forground all of the way to the tree line 150 meters away.

Dandelions

On this day one year ago: Another pedestrian image. Raises the question of why am I doing this. There are good streaks and bad streaks.

AT&T Building

WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect spring day with perfect light. I got out with my Alpa and the 60 meg back for the morning “magic light” moment.

Pears in bloom

Pear in bloom

On this day last year: A nice angle on The Church of the Heavenly Rest.

Church of the Heavenly Rest

WARREN CONNECTICUT – My birthday. We celebrated with a family dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, but no pictures from there. Earlier in the day I took a long walk in with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summicron lens.

Warren Spring

On this day on year ago: 59th Street Bridge.

59th Stree Birdge

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re having a vey late spring. My photo from April 24, 2010 shows our pear trees and a bunch of flowering shrubs in bloom. See yesterday’s post. This year we only have forsythia – the earliest of the large flowering shrubs. Here’s a forsythia captured on a rainy Monday morning before I drove back to New York with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.

Forsythia

On this day one year ago: One Rock, at night in the fog.

One Rockefeller Plaza

WARREN CONNECTICUT – So now it’s really spring.  Not much going on here from a photographic standpoint.  Flowering trees seem to rob my work of its vitality.  I’ve rented a Nikon and a few lenses as an experiment.  I don’t care for the “jittery” quality of the out of focus portions of the image.

Spring