NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back at it in the office with a number of pressing projects. I often stop at Citicorp Center to see what’s going on, visually. This is a four frame stitch with my Leica M9 and a 35mm Summilux Asp. II lens, shot at f 1.4.

Citicorp Center

Warren Storm

On this day one year ago: Another building in New Preston Connecticut.

Harry O Erickson Pavilion Hall, New Preston Connecticut

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – As you might expect this is an emotionally flat day for me after all of the excitement of the wedding. My mojo is elsewhere. It’s gone into hiding. I hope it’s not gone forever. But I threw my Alpa into a small bag and soldiered on. I caught this at Citicorp Center on my way to the office. Everyone is alone, facing away from everyone else. Everyone is an island. That’s what life is like sans mojo. A lucky shot. Odd how you can do well at something regardless of your state of mind by just doing it daily.

The Alpa (with an 80 meg medium format back) is very demanding of technique when used handheld. At 80 megs of resolution a bit of camera movement was plainly evident in this image. I down-rezed the file to 24 megs – the file size produced by a high end Canon or Nikon – and the jitters disappeared.

Citigroup

On this day last year: a fixer-upper.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I’m exploring other daily photo blogs – I’m working on a page of links and critique that I’ll post here when its finished. There actually aren’t many of them. The one I like best is one polaroid a day over an 18 year period, to the photographer’s death. Someone has lovingly scanned and uploaded the 7,000 odd images, and built a very nice flash gallery. Here’s a link: hughcrawford.com. Anyway, I’ve been doing more in Manhattan in the early evening with my ultra-wide 12mm lens:

November 19, 2010

November 20, 2010

On this day last year: Telephones at Grand Central shot with the bokeh king.

Grand Central Terminal - lower level

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – An overcast day with intermit clearing. The sky is really low. Here’s Citicorp center out my office window. I’m using a “new” old lens: a 40mm Leica Summicron-C from 1977. This lens was designed for use with the Leica CL, a “budget” camera produced in a joint venture with Minolta. Leica CL. I found this lens, which is in perfect condition, at a very good price on e-bay – I’ve been watching for one for some time. It has the advantage of being the most compact Leica-built lens for M-mount cameras. It appears to be very, very good. I’ll be exploring its capabilities over the next few days.

Citicorp

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A very busy day as I prepare to go to Mustique tomorrow.  I caught  this view of Citicorp with my Leica on my way to a lunch date.

Citicorp Center

Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Citicorp Center from Lexington Avenue.

Citicorp

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Citicorp Center.

Citicorp Center

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Lexington Avenue at night, after a day of meetings.

Lexington Avenue

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back in my comfort zone, shooting infrared in Manhattan.

Lexington Avenue

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Infrared just East of Third Avenue.

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