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Monday August 16, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Starbucks, 87th Street and Lexington Avenue. Could be anywhere in the world.
Starbuck's
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron v. IV.
Friday August 13, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Here we are on a dull Friday the 13th. Spent most of the day organizing for Africa trip. Uninspired in terms of photography. This is out our window.
Out my window
Nikon D700
Friday July 30, 2010 (click to comment)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This detail caught my eye on a building on East 55th Street: a shield-shaped sign on a townhouse referring to “She who must be obeyed. With a little digging around I found that this is the US headquarters of a company called D. L. Taffner, the producer of a television show called “Rumpole of the Bailey.” Rumpole’s wife on the show is referred to as “She Who Must Be Obeyed.” According to the New York Times: “Eleanor is Eleanor Taffner, the wife of Donald L. Taffner Sr., the founder of D. L. Taffner, a television production and distribution company. That sign has been out there since 1983, said Mr. Taffner, who is retired. . . . ‘Truck drivers point up to it and just love it,’ he added.”
Anyway – here’s the image:
124 East 55th Street - DLT Entertainment
Leica M9 and 90mm Elmarit lens. Three frames stitched.
Wednesday July 28, 2010 (click to comment)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I met our daughter at a rooftop lounge in Hell’s Kitchen – at 11th Avenue and 48th Street – for sunset. This area of Manhattan, which is primarily where people come to buy cars or have them serviced, is changing rapidly. So this is Hell’s Kitchen in the foreground and the midtown skyline in the background. Very basic urban landscape, but in terrific light.
Hell's Kitchen and Midtown skyline
Leica M= and 50mm Summilux lens. Three images stitched, and then cropped to square format.
Tuesday July 27, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Club at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 60th Street. The club was organized in the late 19th century by JP Morgan for his steel baron clients who were generally not welcome at the Union Club, the bastion of New York society at the time. From Wikipedia: “JP Morgan served as its first president. Other original members included William K. Vanderbilt and James Roosevelt. Its 1912 clubhouse, designed by Stanford White, stands at 1-11 East 60th Street, on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue. The land on which the Clubhouse stands – 100 feet fronting on Fifth Avenue and 200 feet on 60th Street – was acquired from the Duchess of Marlborough who signed the purchase agreement in the United States Consulate in London. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who represented the Governors, signed for the Club.”
The Metropolitan Club
Leica M9 with 90mm Elmarit lens.
Monday July 26, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – On the way to pick up my car to drive to Bridgehampton for a meeting a caught the northern facade of 1185 Park Avenue in wonderful morning light. Not much going on visually in the Hamptons so I’m posting this.
1185 Park Avenue
Leica M9 with 50mm Summilux Asph. lens.
Sunday July 25, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Barking Dog Cafe, snapped from a car while stopped at a stoplight.
The Barking Dog Cafe
Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux lens.
Friday July 23, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We’re planning a trip to East Africa in mid-August. This is an experiment with a new lens that I bought for the trip – stalking a floral arrangement in our living room.
Flowers
Nikon D700 with 70-200 f2.8 VR lens.
Friday July 16, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This is out the window of our 11th floor apartment, looking into our courtyard. Our building is doing “Local Law 10″ work on the exterior. Local law 10, which requires periodic inspection and repairs of building facades, was enacted in 1980 after a piece of terra cotta masonry fell from the facade of an Upper West Side building and killed a passing college student.
1185 Park Avenue - Local Law 10 work
Hasselblad H3D 39 with HC 300 lens.
Posted in -Woody's Picks, Out my window, Street, Work
Tagged New York, Park Avenue, Upper East Side
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Thursday July 15, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Had lunch with an old friend at Savoy on Prince Street. Here’s a link: Savoy. We had heard that Savoy has a fabulous burger, which turned out to be true. The patty was perfect aged, grass fed beef, not overworked; the brioche bun was just right; it was cooked to perfection. After lunch I spent an hour in Washington Square exploring some of the same themes that I explored in Ecuador.
Washington Square
Leica M9 with 28mm Summicron lens.
Posted in Icon, Landscape, Monuments, Urban
Tagged New York, Parks, Washington Square
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Monday July 12, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Dinner at Centolire with an old friend, Steve Rubin. Here’s the view out the window across 86th Street.
East 86th Street
Nikon D700.
Posted in Landscape, Out my window, Street, Urban
Tagged New York, Stores, Upper East Side
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Thursday July 8, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Getting off the subway on the way to a movie, I Am Love. According to the New Yorker this film is in “limited release”. After seeing it I can certainly understand why.
Lexington Avenue Subway
Leica M9 with 28mm Summilux.
Wednesday July 7, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – It’s possible to walk most of the way around Manhattan on the water. This is a relatively recent development = there are gaps (for example on the East side in the 50s) but construction continues. To an important extent this relieves the sense the Manhattan is cut off from the water by major highways (the Westside Highway and the FDR Drive). Anyway, here we are on the East River in the 60s.
Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux lens.
Tuesday July 6, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A truly beastly day. We’re suffering under a record heat wave in the Northeast. I sought refuge in the shade of the plaza of Lever House and shot passers by against the backdrop of Hello Kitty. Not a good day to be outdoors.
Leica M9 with 28mm Summicon lens.
Wednesday June 23, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This was a travel day, starting in the morning at LaGuardia and ending the day in Quito, Ecuador, via Miami. This out of the window of a taxi on the way to LaGuardia. The Bridge is the Triborough Bridge – at least that’s its historical name and what most New Yorkers call it. It was officially renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in 2008. Here’s a short excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on the bridge:
“Construction had begun on Black Friday in 1929, and the Triborough project’s outlook began to look bleak. Othmar Ammann’s assistance was enlisted to help simplify the structure. Ammann had collapsed the original two-deck roadway into one, requiring lighter towers, and thus, lighter piers. These cost-saving revisions saved $10 million on the towers alone. Using New Deal money, the project was resurrected in the early 1930s by Robert Moses and the bridge was opened to traffic on July 11, 1936.”
Here’s a link to the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s page on the bridge: RFK Bridge
RFK Bridge
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph.
Monday June 21, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A walk in the East Village in the evening of the longest day of the year.
East Village
Leica M9 with 35mm Summichron Asph
Friday June 18, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent the late afternoon stalking reflected sunlight out the window of our dining room.
Out my window
Hasselblad H3D with HC 300 lens.
Thursday June 17, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Midday found me in midtown on my way to a lunch date. Here’s one of my favorite spots, the plaza in front of the Seagram Building.
Seagram Building New York
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph.
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Tagged Flags, New York, Park Avenue, Seagram building
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Monday June 14, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back home. The Lipstick building.
Lipstick building
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph.
Monday June 7, 2010
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.
Friday June 4, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent a few hours today getting to know some new equipment. Most of the images on this blog are taken with a Leica M9, which has the advantage of sensational image quality but is very much a traditional Leica. The manual rangefinder focus and limited high ISO capacity has presented issues for me in poor light like Martha McPhee’s book party. I also shoot Hasselblad digital medium format, but it’s unwieldy at parties and events. I’ve been experimenting with a Nikon D700 and fast prime lenses for parties and events – this is the new (to me) equipment that that I referred to above. This is a torture test for lens flare but I liked the image well enough to post it. An Andrew Moore photograph, a Venini ice cream glass, a Venetian candle stick form 1914 or so and a Deruta cachepot.
Link to Andrew Moore
Link to Venini
Link to Deruta
Andrew Moore and Murano Glass
Nikon D700 and Nikon 35mm f2.0 lens.
Wednesday June 2, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – While walking on East 68th Street today I stumbled on a fashion shoot in progress – probably for a catalogue based on the wardrobe.:
Catalogue shoot, East 68th Street
Hasselblad H3D 39 with HC 100 lens.
Tuesday June 1, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This from the very early evening on Park Avenue. The sculpture is newly-installed. I don’t have any information on it but I’ll keep looking and revise this post accordingly. Of course the background is Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, one of the icons that I stalk. The perspective is from the front door of the Racquet and Tennis Club.
Park Avenue Island
Shot with a Hasselblad H3D 39 and an HC 100 lens. Three exposures stitched. This produces a very large file.
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Tagged New York, Park Avenue, Seagram building
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Friday May 28, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We had dinner at Island, a restaurant near us on Madison Avenue, with Alexander (our son), Laura (his girlfriend) and Laura’s parents. This is a rare image of Maria.
Maria
Nikon D700 50mm f1.4G lens.
Wednesday May 26, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back in New York. While walking back from the west side (where I had left my car for service) a came across Carnegie Hall in dappled light. This is a side-on view from Sixth Avenue. From the Wikipedia entry on Carnegie Hall:
“Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most famous venues in the United States for classical music and popular music, renowned for its beauty, history and acoustics. . . . Carnegie Hall is one of the last large buildings in New York built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame; however, when several flights of studio spaces were added to the building near the turn of the 20th century, a steel framework was erected around segments of the building. . . . A venerable story has become part of the folklore of the hall: A New Yorker (or in some versions Arthur Rubinstein) is approached in the street near Carnegie Hall, and asked, “Pardon me sir, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” He replies, “Practice, practice, practice.”"
Carnegie Hall
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph. Three images stitched.
Monday May 24, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Film Society of Lincoln Center held its gala last night at the new Alice Tully Hall, honoring Michael Douglas.
Film Society
Nikon D700 with 50mm f1.4G.
Posted in Events and holidays, Family and friends
Tagged Events and holidays, Fund raisers, New York
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Sunday May 23, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I dropped the car off at our garage after driving back from Connecticut. That’s me, and our Norwich Terrier Basil, in the mirror. I’ve vowed never to post a picture of Basil on my blog (remember all of those pitiful posts on online photo forums to the effect: “Here is my cat Midas shot with my Nikon SuperUltra 9700 – you can see every whisker) but this seemed to be a reasonable exception.
95th Street Parking
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux lens
Thursday May 20, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I play poker with a group of old friends on a roughly quarterly basis. This was the night. No pictures of the game – what happens there stays there. But here’s the view from the terrace of our host.
New York Financial District at Night
Leica M9 with a 24mm Summilux lens. Two frames stitched together.
Monday May 17, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Our son graduated today from a masters degree program at Columbia University on management of digital resources.
Alexander, Laura and Maria
Nikon D700 and 50mm f1.4G
Posted in Events and holidays, Family and friends
Tagged Columbia University, Events and holidays, Graduation, New York
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Friday May 14, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Late afternoon on East 56th Street – a reflection of the AT&T building off of the facade of the Trump Tower. Shot with my Leica M9 (it found its way back to me) and a 24mm Summilux.
AT&T Building
Thursday May 13, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Fabulous late afternoon light in midtown, with light reflected from buildings adding nuance. I’m shooting with my backup Leica, and M8.2, because I left my M9 at Gary and Diana’s the previous evening (symptomatic of wine consumption). I had a number of good images to choose among. This is Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram building – part of my effort to do a new take on iconic structures. I have an ongoing project on the Seagram building and the plaza formed by it and the Racquet and Tennis Club (McKim Mead and White) and Lever House to the northwest (the “Hello Kitty’s” come from there). Image taken with my M8.2 and a 90mm lens – three images stitched in Photoshop.
Seagram Building
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Tagged New York, Park Avenue, Seagram building
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