NEW YORK NEW YORK – We’re having some painting done. It’s been a few years (actually quite a few ) since we’ve done this. Basically touch ups on trims and moldings – every thing else is fine. Here’s a shot of the work in progress taken with my Alpa Max.

Paint job

On this day one year ago: on board the Shroud Dancer.

Shroud dancer

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out with my Leica and 90mm lens I caught this in the failing light.

East 86th Street in good light

On this day last year: 9-11 memorial.

9/11 memorial

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out on the street on a bright day between meetings with my iPhone. This image has been altered; I took a number of images in rapid succession; I added the shadow to the image of the walking man.

Park Avenue Pedestrian

On this day one year ago: snow drifts. This seems odd, now. This winter we haven’t had any real snow since the end of October.

Wind blown snow, Warren Connecitcut

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – The day of the iPhone riot. A gallery of the Christmas Season images from midtown.

Bolts

Sculpture

Ice Cream

Necklace

30 Rock

Street Graffiti

Tree grill

Christmas comes but once a year

Christmas Cheer

Glasses

Park Avenue in Morning Light

Blue ball

On this day one year ago: Bunny Beekman.

Bunny Beekman

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – Feeling better. I went about my business today carrying my iPhone and collecting images. This thing is addictive. I haven’t tried very hard to edit the day down – I present this as an iPhone gallery. My reaction: “get a grip, Campbell.”

First an image that was not taken on December 19 – I’m posting this on Christmas Day so I thought I should share a Christmas greeting. The front of our house grunged up with an app called “plastic bullet”.

Have yourself a grungy Christmas

1185 Park with a tilt shift app that create an impression of very narrow depth of field, making everything look like toys.

1185 Park in miniature

A panorama stitched (defectively – there’s still a reason for these big cameras) from three frames.

1185 Park Stitch

More street.

Fire alarm

Literally a picture of the street.

CATV

On this day last year: Chuck Klein.

Chuck Klein

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NEW YOEK NEW YORK – I spent some time this afternoon at Yancey Richardson looking at photographs, primarily by Andrew Moore. The experience was energizing. When I started this daily photo effort over two years ago I expected that a number of longer term projects would emerge. Looking at Andrew’s work and paging back through mine I’ve decided to push on the churches of Litchfield County project. I see a couple of phases, starting with taking an inventory of facades, making high quality prints as a means to get closer to the ministers/rectors/priests, doing more in depth studies (which I’ve only done at the Washington Congregational Church at this point), teasing out the narrative (which I have some ideas on but need further work to refine) and then more follow through studies.

But today I’m not in Litchfield County so I point my Alpa Max out our window into good light. I’m working to achieve technical mastery with this tool – it’s the key to creating the kinds of images that I’m looking for in Litchfield County. By “technical mastery” I mean that my hands do the right things without an need to think about anything but composition.

Out my window in good light

On this date one year ago: Urban landscape.

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MEW YORK NEW YORK – Well here I am outside the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. I’ve written a couple of other posts on this subject: August 24, 2011 and November 24, 2010. I’m standing here because this is the only place within blocks where any sunlight is hitting the street. I loaded a bunch of camera apps on my iPhone and went looking for a scene with a long dynamic range and some bricks to test the apps. Here’s the one taken with an app called Pro HDR, which takes two images at different exposures and combines them in a “high dynamic range” images. The HDR feature is only so-so. Without a tripod the camera moves between shots. The app compensates for movement but the image appears less sharp than a non HDR image. It does give you the two exposures, though so you have a choice of which to use – here I used the under-exposed shot.

So the iPhone camera is working well for me. We’re planning a trip to DC this weekend. I’m taking the iPhone as my only camera.

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

On this day last year: shot with very cool wide angle lens.

Third Avenue and 54th Street

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well here I am working with the iPhone again. I really like this thing as a camera. This is taken in our office and surprisingly the iPhone handles the color of the chairs (called “paprika” by the decorator) and the mixed lighting.

At the office

On this day last year: má pêche.

má pêche

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NEW YORK NEW YORK – It poured all day. I walked from 56th Street to 27th Street on the East Side with my Leica and a 35mm Summilux Asph. II lens. The first image is a stitch of three frames. Both are taken at f 1.4, which severely limits depth of field (in general a good thing and one of the reasons to own this lens).

Post office building

Rain

On this day last year: Waling to the office.

Lexington Avenue

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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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