TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT – Back to Torrington for the Center Congregational Church. This is an oddity – the only stone Gothic revival Congregational Church that I’ve seen I’m my travels in this part of the state. Here it is. Two frames taken with my Alpa Max and cropped to fit the form factor of the church. Torrington by the way was the birthplace of John Brown, the radical abolutionist who merits a line in the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Center Congregational Church Torrington

On this day one year ago: Union Savings Bank.

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well our adult children decided today that they had had enough of a good thing (Warren Connecticut) and headed back to New York where things are predictably a bit more lively. Here is a shot of a field (it’s really hilly up here) and our departing children, spouse and friend from Germany. The weekend is winding down. We suffer the Sunday blues on Saturday. Leftovers are gone. The house seems empty.

Field Warren

Kids

On this day one year ago: Storm in Warren.

Warren Storm

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – So if the day after Christmas is Boxing Day, what’s the day after Thanksgiving? Purging Day? Leftovers Day? Cold Turkey Day. Try to Get Some Exercise Day? Get the Hell Out of the Kitchen Day? We’ll have to work on this.

My disposition has dramatically improved, foto-wise. I got out in good morning light with a tripod, my Alpa Max and the usual suspects in terms of lenses, filters and so on.

Frost

Pond

On this day one year ago: Thanksgiving 2010.

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NORTHVILLE CONNECTICUT – Back to Connecticut at last. No hurricane. No blizzard. No problems. A rare relief.

I had a chance to explore a de-commissioned church that I’ve seen many times from a distance in gentle, late afternoon light. This is two exposures with my Alpa Max, stitched in Photoshop. Whatever information there may have been about this structure appears to be lost, at least on the web.

On this day last year: Citicorp Center at night.

November 19, 2010

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LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – I spent the late afternoon giving myself a walking tour of North Street in Litchfield. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article on the Litchfield Historic District. Shot with my Alpa TC and 47mm Schneider XL lens. Two frames stitched.

North Street Litchfield

On this day one year ago: Infrared image. One of the better examples of these.

Park Avenue

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NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – Here’s the New Preston Congregational Church captured in profile with my Alpa TC, 36mm Schneider lens and 60 meg Hasselblad digital back. I’ve been here before with a camera – a full frontal view is the subject of my post for November 7, 2009 – in one of the early shots in my ongoing project on Churches in Litchfield County.

New Preston Congregational Church

On this day one year ago: Boating on Lake Waramaug in our 1956 Chris Craft.

1956 Chris Craft

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – I walked around our Warren property this morning with my Alpa TC, a 36mm Schneider lens and a 60 meg Hasselblad back. Finally, I mean finally its really spring here. The shadow of the tree in the first image has an anthropomorphic quality that I really like

Warren Connecticut

Warren birches

On this day last year: a Tiepolo sunset. For all of my fussing about not doing sunsets one of my favorites from last year.

Tiepolo sunset

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect clear, cold day for landscape photograph. I took this image with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 150mm lens and converted the image to grayscale. This camera is producing the most film-like results that I’ve gotten since I started using digital.

Tanner farm, Warren Connecticut

On this day one year ago: Blizzard!

Warren Connecticut

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – I took my Leica M9 out today with a wide lens (24mm Summilux) looking for wind-carved snow in fading, oblique light. I was pleased with what I was seeing and enjoyed take the images, but on reviewing the images none jumped out at me. Perhaps this is a worn-out subject (at least through my eyes).

We had dinner with some friends at Winvian, a nearby inn. A woman at the next table turned out to have a food blog. She included a reference to me – an odd experience for someone who avoids the limelight – in her entry on Winvian. Here’s a link: It’s All Fare.

Anyway here’s wind-carved snow:

Windswept snow, Warren Connecticut

On this day one year ago: Luke Tanner’s cornfield.

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LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – I spent some time in this historic old village exercising my Hasselblad, taking full frontal images of some of the buildings in town. Here’s the Union Savings Bank Building, conveniently located right next to the historic Litchfield jail. The sign looks sort of temporary. I’m guessing here (I’ll check this out with some of our local friends) that this was formerly the First National Bank of Litchfield, which was merged into the Union Savings Bank earlier this year.

On this day one year ago: Brooklyn Bridge.

Brooklyn

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