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Sunday August 15, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Woods near our house on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Warren, Connecticut Woods
Nikon D700
Saturday, July 17, 2010
LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT – This from a fundraiser for the Litchfield Community Center.
Litchfield Community Center. I changed my mind on the image that I originally posted here. On July 23 I replaced it with the following image – I’ve included the original posting in a comment.
Bruce
Nikon D700
Monday July 5, 2010
NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – I decided to drive back to New York early. The light in New Milford was interesting so I stopped to photograph. One of the grandest buildings on the green of this slightly troubled town is the Lillis Funeral Home. Here’s a link to the iMortuary entry for Lillis: Lillis Funeral Home.
The Lillis’s are evidently a prominent New Milford family. A Google search identifies a Deputy Chief of Police named Lillis; the town has a Lillis Road; the school board was housed in the Lillis Building which is now apparently abandoned.
I’m going to go out of my way to collect mortuaries over the next few months.
Lillis Funeral Home
Hssselblad H3d 39 with 35-90mm lens.
Sunday July 4, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well here I am in Warren for the Fourth of July. A quick personal inventory: Maria, my wife, is in Capri at a literary festival (no kidding); our son, Alexander is in Puerto Rico on vacation proposing to his girlfriend (she said “yes” so she’s now his fiance); our daughter is in Southampton with an old friend of hers. So I’m here by myself doing the lonely guy thing. After the excitement of Ecuador this seems dull. I picked up a different camera hoping for inspiration – not much came of it.
Sunset Warren
Hasselblad H3D 39 with 35 – 90mm lens.
Friday July 2, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our travel from Quito finally ended this morning after an all night flight with a layover in Miami. I managed to keep a lunch date with my son, and I managed to stay awake during the drive to Warren to arrive in time for dinner with some old friends.
Here is the sign for our house that we put out on Rabbit Hill Road after a number of guests were unable to find us. We used the wild turkey theme because . . . well we have a lot of wild turkeys.
Wild turkey sign
Leica M9 with 28mm Summicron.
Saturday June 19, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Perennial boarder. We bought our house in Warren in 1987. It was a split level ranch on a cornfield. We’ve added bits and pieces to the landscape over the years – it’s a delight that our efforts finally look like mature landscape.. It would be an exaggeration to say that we’ve had a master plan, but we have pursued a general direction, leaning toward the use of native plants in naturalized settings. We’ve planted one perennial boarder, however, that’s an exception.
Perennial boarder
Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux Asph
Saturday June 5, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We spent most of the day in Woodbury Connecticut fighting local traffic and running from one antique store to the next. Not a lot of terrific photo opportunities – the bright overcast produced flat, unattractive, light. We returned to Warren in the late afternoon and I captured this of a bush rose.
Rose
Nikon D700 with 85mm f1.4 lens,
Monday May 31, 2010
NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – There are two Congregational Church buildings in New Preston. For most of the year the congregation meets in a lovely classical New England structure on a hill near the center of the village, which I photographed at sunrise on November 7, 2009. Here’s a link: New Preston Church During the summer months the congregation meets in a stone building a few miles away.
New Preston Stone Church
Taken with a Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph. lens. Three frames stitched with Autopano Pro. Perspective touched up in Photoshop.
Posted in Landscape, Religion, Small town
Tagged Church, Congregational Church, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Washington CT
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Saturday May 22, 2010
WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – Cocktails at CT, a new restaurant being opened by friends on Route 202 in Washington CT. The menu will consist of all locally grown produce and meat. Here’s a link to an article in the Litchfield County Times: Article about CT
CT
Leica M9 with 35mm Summicron lens.
Sunday May 16, 2010
ROUTE 202 IN NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – Farmstand. This was late in the day; I slept poorly the night before so I lost the morning light.
Farmstand
Saturday May 15, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Up early for a lovely sunrise. We’ve controlled the underbrush in a wooded area to create a park-like setting. The over-the-top colors are . . . well . . . what it looked like. Image taken with a Leica M9 and 24mm Summilux – three images stitched.
Spring Sunrise
Saturday May 8, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Well I’m going to have to apologize for this one. I’ve said that I never shoot sunsets. The problem with them is that they happen every day. It’s hard to find an unusual angle or an edgy point of view. What am I going to add to the lore of sunsets?
A few years ago an artist friend painted a trompe-l’œil sky on the ceiling of our living room in Connecticut. We asked for a Tiepolo sky. Instead he painted an El Greco – a gray, brooding sky – because that’s what the sky looks like in Connecticut. Well the May 8 sunset was pretty much a Tiepolo sky – the light was sensational. Shot with a Leica M9 and a 50mm Summilux lens, four exposures stitched together and cropped to a 2×3 aspect ratio. I desaturated the blues in Photoshop – they were over the top. I’ve pasted a copy of Tiepolo’s Allegory of the Planets and Continents for comparison.
Tiepolo sunset
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Sunday May 2, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Early morning. This was taken by mounting my Nikon D700 on an Astro-Physics 5 inch refracting telescope, providing an effective focal length of 780mm and an aperture of f6.
Connecticut Spring
Monday April 19, 2010
HARWINTON, CONNECTICUT – I drove to Harwinton today to visit the Connecticut DEP office there, to pick up a boat license. Like most other Litchfield County towns Hawinton has a Congregational Church on a small green – the congregation dates to 1738. The 1935 “Connecticut Guide” says this about Hawrinton
In Harwinton Village, the Congregational Church was built in 1806. The design is simple but pleasing, with the heavily molded cornice of pediment and roof. The 3 front doorways have rounded fanlights and pedimented hoods. Above the central doorway is a Palladian window, repeated in the tower. On the north of the Church is the stone Memorial Chapel, beautiful but incongruous, given by Collis P. Huntington, the financier of the Southern Pacific R. R., in memory of his mother. Huntington was born in the town in1821, and worked on a farm here until the age of 14, when he went to New York to seek his fortune.
Harwinton Connecticut
Sunday April 18, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Another gray, rainy day. But at the end of the day something amazing happened. Just as the sun set it briefly broke through the clouds. It was as if the landscape had been bathed in a red spotlight – one of those “It’s remarkable to be alive” moments.
Sunset after the rain
Sunday April 11, 2010
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
Saturday April 10, 2010
CORNWALL BRIDGE, CONNECTICUT – St. Bridget Church. A Catholic church. Late 19th Century gothic revival, The is very little information online, except that this congregation recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. I took this because of the unusual point of view – the image is taken from a highway bridge that runs above the church. The view is generally obscured by trees except for one spot where this shot is possible. Because of the limited choice in angles there was no way to eliminate the utility wires. May reaction at the time was “The wires are there. We’ll just make them part of the image.” I’m afraid that without a pole or some other indication that they are intentional, they look like a mistake.
St. Bridget Church, Cornwall Bridge Connecticut
Posted in -Woody's Picks, Landscape, Religion, Small town
Tagged Church, Congregational Church, Connecticut, West Cornwall
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Sunday April 4, 2010 (Easter)
SHARON, CONNECTICUT – Back to shooting Litchfield County Churches on Easter Sunday. This is Christ Episcopal Church in Sharon. According to the Church’s history “In April, 1755, the town of Sharon granted the members of the Church of England permission to erect their first church. The congregation rapidly increased and outgrew their church by 1764 when a new “really neat and beautiful” church was built. During the Revolutionary War, the building was desecrated when it was used for military purposes, turned into barracks, and then converted into a stable. In subsequent years, it fell into extreme disrepair and was finally torn down. . . . Circumstances shifted for the Parish in 1809 when the town’s Episcopalians officially organized as a parish and formally established themselves as part of the Protestant Episcopal Church on May 27th. With a clergy and vestry of their own, the members began construction on the existing brick building that was consecrated on November 24, 1819.”
Congregational churches built in he 1820s were most often federal style. See my blog entries for November 21, 22 and 29, 2009. The gothic revival came later to the Congregational churches. Interestingly the Episcopalians built gothic revival structures from the late 1700s onward. See my entries for January 2 and February 14, 2010.
Christ Episcopal Church Sharon CT
Saturday April 3, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Forsythia, the earliest blooming shrub in this part of Connecticut. The earliest bloomer of all is the crocus which doesn’t do that well for us because chipmunks like them.
Forsythia
Friday April 2, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Winter is loosening its grip.
Early Spring
Saturday March 27, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Birch at sunset.
Birches, sunset, Warren Connecticut
Sunday March 14, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We’re suffering under a major Nor’easter. Something like four inches of rain over twenty-four hours and high winds. Winter gives up begrudgingly here. This is the beginning of the mud season.
Warren Connecticut
Saturday March 13, 2010
NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – I visited a terrific craftsman’s workshop today – a man named Roger Standt who specializes in restoring wooden Chris Craft boats. This is the inside of his shop. I was there looking at a 1954 Chris Craft that I’m buying with a friend. I’ve attached a picture as a comment.
Roger's Shop
Monday February 15, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Sunrise on a much warmer day. Just two weeks to March with its hope for Spring. Luke Tanner’s cornfield.
Warren sunrise
Sunday February 14, 2010
MORRIS, CONNECTICUT – Episcopal Church, Morris Connecticut. This is one of my continuing series of churches of Litchfield County.
Episcopal Church Morris Connecticut
Saturday February 13, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Luke Tanner’s cornfield, off of Jack Corner Road.
Warren, Connecticut
Sunday February 7, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – A very cold day in Litchfield County. I decided to work inside.
Warren
Saturday February 6, 2010
NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – Falls behind J. Seitz.
New Preston falls
Posted in Infrared, Landscape, Small town
Tagged Connecticut, New Preston, Waterfall
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Friday February 5, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I waited all day for the blizzard that the weather forecast had promised. No luck. By 10:00 PM still no picture. We had driven up to Connecticut so I took this time exposure in the dark.
Warren Connecticut
Sunday January 17, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We had sleet on Sunday.
Sleet
Sunday January 10, 2010
MORRIS, CONNECTICUT – This is the old Town Hall of Morris Connecticut, a tiny town a few minutes drive from us. This building now serves as the town’s Historical Society.
Morris CT Historical Society
Posted in Landscape, Small town
Tagged Connecticut, Libraries, Litchfield County, Morris
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