WARREN CONNECTICUT – Back in Connecticut with my Hasselblad an the rain. This is one of my favorite images of the season.
Rain
The image below proves that dandelions aren’t the only flowers that we have. Nine images focus stacked in Helicon Focus.
Wildflowers
On this day one year ago: Maria, one year younger.
Maria
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Most of the bushes and shrubs around our Warren house flower at some point between April and July, and everything turns invitingly green during this period. From a photographic standpoint it’s a little bit of a distraction because I doubt that MOMA or Pace will be showing any dynamic new photographers specializing in flowering shrubs any time soon. But nonetheless this pretty conventional landscape is hard to resist, so I spent the weekend wandering around with my Alpa and Hasselblad digital back.
Shade Warren CT
On this day one year ago: Walking back from lunch. The restaurant that I mentioned in this post last year closed with no notice under mysterious circumstances. They just put a sign out saying they were closed. They had received excellent reviews and were always packed. The rumor mill suggests that it was something to do with the owner’s divorce or a litigation involving employee tips. Too bad.
Manhattan
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our wildflower cultivation in Connecticut seems to be limited to dandelions, at least this season. I set my Leica up on a tripod with my 24mm Summilux lens framing a field of dandelions from about 2 feet away to the horizon. I then took 7 exposures focusing at various distances, and combined the images in Helicon Focus, “focus stacking” software. The combined images are sharp from the close forground all of the way to the tree line 150 meters away.
Dandelions
On this day one year ago: Another pedestrian image. Raises the question of why am I doing this. There are good streaks and bad streaks.
AT&T Building
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a break in a long stretch of rainy weather and I had a break in a long stretch of around the clock meetings, so I walked up to the Conservatory Garden at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue. I’ve been here before with a camera. Gardens in bloom in the spring, while appealing to a photographer, haven’t really brought me to any artistic insights – I should probably stop doing this. But anyway, here’s the view of construction at Mount Sinai Medical Center from the Conservatory Garden taken with my Leica M9 and a 35mm Summicron v. IV lens (the Bokeh King).
Conservatory Garden
On this day last year: great midtown light on the Seagrams Building.
Seagram Building
NEW YORK NEW YORK – The James Beard Foundation Awards were held at Lincoln Center this evening. I caught my image for the day on my way to a rehearsal (I’m the chairman of the organization). Here’s what we say about the awards on our website:
Deemed “the Oscars of the food world,” by Time magazine, the James Beard Foundation Awards are the country’s most coveted honor for chefs; food and beverage professionals; broadcast media, journalists, and authors working on food; and restaurant architects and designers.
Jos Andres of miniBar in Washington DC won the outstanding chef award and spoke movingly on the experience of being an immigrant in America.
Captured with my Leica M9 and a 28mm Summicron lens:
Lincoln Center
On this day last year: Spring sunrise.
Spring Sunrise
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
WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect spring day with perfect light. I got out with my Alpa and the 60 meg back for the morning “magic light” moment.
Pears in bloom
Pear in bloom
On this day last year: A nice angle on The Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Church of the Heavenly Rest
WARREN CONNECTICUT – My birthday. We celebrated with a family dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, but no pictures from there. Earlier in the day I took a long walk in with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summicron lens.
Warren Spring
On this day on year ago: 59th Street Bridge.
59th Stree Birdge
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re having a vey late spring. My photo from April 24, 2010 shows our pear trees and a bunch of flowering shrubs in bloom. See yesterday’s post. This year we only have forsythia – the earliest of the large flowering shrubs. Here’s a forsythia captured on a rainy Monday morning before I drove back to New York with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.
Forsythia
On this day one year ago: One Rock, at night in the fog.
One Rockefeller Plaza
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
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – A bafflingly beautiful Spring day. Repair of of broken links is proceeding – we have updated he months of October and November, 2009 and March and April of 2010.
New England spring
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Another sunny spring day. It’s hard to convey (or for that matter to feel) any angst, even on tax day. This is a postcard but it’s hard to resist taking images like this. This is Park Avenue living up to its name.
Park Avenue
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
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