NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took a break from my landscape class and took this on the plaza outside of the ICP’s educational center with my Leica M9 and Noctilux. Two frames stitched.

Plaza

On this day one year ago: Shy pedestrian.

Hmm . . . someone has something to hide

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – A benefit at Alice Tully Hall. Taken with my Leica M9 and Noctilux lens.

Concert

Bar

On this day last year: Live from Lincoln Center. May 9 seems to be my day to be at Lincoln Center.

Lincoln Center

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – What’s going on here? Hint: It’s right in the middle of Manhattan. Actually Lever House – that sensational Skidmore tribute to the Mad Men era. A Japanese maple with some collapsed umbrellas in the background. Taken with my Leica M9 and a . . . Noctilux. At f.95.

Japanese Maple at Lever House

On this day one year ago: Monster tree. There are those Callery Pears agains.

Warren Connecticut

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m really liking the results that I’m getting from the Noctilux and the LeiCA M9. Life is good. I took a walk in the financial district in the morning, went to a rehearsal of the James Beard Foundation awards in the afternoon, and to the awards and a gala in the evening. I’m posting a mini-gallery of the day.

Police Memorial

WTC II

Construction

LEY

Sandwich Man

Rehersal

Lincoln Center

Larry

On this day one year ago: This again. I’m so embarrassed. I took the same picture on April 15 this year. Spring is running three weeks early in 2012.

Pears in bloom

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’ve given up trying to make my Noctilux work with my Sony Nex-7. Back to the drawing board – this time with my Leica M9.I spent an our making a minor adjustment to infinity focus on the M9 – it had gotten slightly out of whack. I expected the worse. I’ve been having trouble using the split image rangefinder because my right eye, my shooting eye, has gotten fairly astigmatic. So I switched to shooting with my left eye. Bottom line – focus is right on. I’m having no trouble focusing the lens on the M9 at f.95. Here are some samples:

Birches

Birches

Japanese Maple

Candice

Ted

On this day last year: anti foie gras protesters. No kidding.

Anti-foie gras demonstrators

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – Breakfast. More work with the Leica Nocti and the Sony Nex-7. focusing is painfully slow with this setup.

White

On this day one year ago:Local color.

Noise

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – I got a new lens today. A Leica Noctilux – affectionately known as a “Nocti”. Further evidence of my infatuation with exotic gear. The Nocti has been backordered for a year or more. At f.95 it’s the fastest still camera lens around. Big and heavy. The point of this lens is to shoot it wide open so I also bought a neutral density filter which permits shooting at f.95 in daylight. I clamped the Nocti onto my Sony Nex-7 and took a walk up Broadway. The focusing with the Nex-7 was a little disappointing. F.95 demands very accurate focus and the Nex didn’t deliver – only about half of the images from the day were technically good. Here is a sampling.

Victoria

I ended up at the James Beard Foundation Media Awards:

On this day one year ago: Rain.

It rains on Lexington Avenue

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – The site of a gas explosion six years ago. Still a vacant lot.

On this day one year ago: Library at home.

Library

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – On Third Avenue on a rainy day with my ever-present Sony Nex-7 and a Leica 24mm Summilux lens.

Jeans

On this day last year: Poker game breaks up.

Poker game breaks up

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – On our way to a Pen benefit Maria studies the guest list. We are deeply in the heart of the spring gala season. Taken with my Sony NEX-7 and a 24mm Summilux lens.

Maria

On this day last year: St. Peter’s Lutheran Church.

It rains on Lexington Avenue

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