Tag Archives: Sunset

Thursday January 26, 2012

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NAPLES FLORIDA – Another walk on the beach at sunset with my Panasonic. There’s a stretch of beach here where thousands of gulls gather to watch the sunset, along with the local residents, who bring out chairs to sit on as they literally watch the sunset. As the last rays of the sun fade they (the people) break out into applause. Really. The experience of being surrounded by a very large number of birds was pure Hitchcock. Here’s an image:

Hitchcockesque

Hitchcockesque

And another sunset.

Sunset

Sunset

On this day one year ago: Mustique rainbow.

Doug and Judy

Doug and Judy

Tuesday January 24, 2012

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NAPLES FLORIDA – Back here again, on a mission that’s unrelated to last week’s board meetings: attending the annual MFDF directors’ conference. Today is the first day of the conference and is thus busy, so I’ve limited myself photo-wise to my iPhone and what I can photograph within an easy walk. I caught this from a boardwalk through a local park with my iPhone. The image is my new lock screen image on my iPhone and I’ve adapted it to serve as one of this blog’s rotating headers. The over cooked quality is what comes out of the iPhone. I could dial it down in Lightroom or Photoshop, but who said this process needs to be serious. The image looks very good on a small screen. It demonstrates (again) that great light trumps every thing else (including limited equipment) when shooting landscape.

Another iPhone image from the top of the bar where I had dinner.

Sunny Florida

Sunny Florida

On this day last year: an immense image – three Hasselblad frames stitched – of the Mustique sky. I’m using a cropped version of this as one of my rotating headers. It turns out that fabuolous skies are my theme for January 24 in whatever year.

Grenadines sky

Grenadines sky

Monday January 16, 2012

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NAPLES FLORIDA – I flew down here from New York this morning for two days of client board meetings. I managed a long walk on the beach today. Beaches aren’t great for photography (at least when I’m pushing the shutter button) I suspect because they are all similar, if not the same. Here’s a sea bird admiring its shadow, taken with my Panasonic.

Naples Florida

Naples Florida

A few hours later, a sunset from my hotel room.

Sunset Naples Florida

Sunset Naples Florida

On this day one year ago: snow.

Warren Connecticut

Warren Connecticut

Monday July 25, 2011

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LEMARTI’S CAMP, KENYA – Maria caught up with us in time to board a bush plane to the Northern Kenyan foothills where we’re spending three days at Lemarti’s Camp. This is a “tented camp” far north of the beaten path, owned by our friends Anna Trzebinski and her husband Loyapan Lamarti. Lemarti is a Samburu Maasai; Anna is a Kenyan of European descent. We’re here to see Anna and Lemarti and to soak up some Maasai culture. We weren’t planning any game drives (we did that last year), but ran into a herd of elephants in our long drive from the dirt landing strip to the camp.

This is a remarkable site, which (like a lot of Kenya) gets under your skin. We arrived in time for tea, dinner and a sunset. Images captured with my Alpa TC, Phase One IQ 180 and a Schneider 35mm Digitar.

Lamarti's Camp

Lamarti's Camp

Lemarti's Camp

Lemarti's Camp

On this day one year ago: Barking Dog Cafe.

The Barking Dog Cafe

Thursday January 27, 2011

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MUSTIQUE – We went on a picnic to Macaroni beach. Here’s an image taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60, followed by a sunset with the same camera. As you have seen from the previous post we were in exactly the same place for lunch on January 26, 2010.

Picnic on Macaroni Beach

Picnic on Macaroni Beach

Sunset Mustique

Sunset Mustique

On this day one year ago: A raining morning in Mustique.

Mustique

Wednesday January 26, 2011

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MUSTIQUE – The house that we’re staying at, L’Ansecoy, belongs to Maguy le Coze, owner of Le Bernardin, our favorite restaurant in New York. Anyway, another day another rainbow, and another beautiful sky. Both taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60.

Doug and Judy

Doug and Judy

Grenadines sunset

Grenadines sunset

On this day one year ago: Picnic on Macaroni Beach, Mustique.

Mustique

Tuesday January 25, 2011

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MUSTIQUE – We saw a rare double rainbow today and managed to capture it – rainbows are notoriously difficult to photograph so I count myself as lucky. Following the rainbow is the obligatory shot of the sky. Both taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60

Grenadines rainbow

Grenadines rainbow

Grenadines sky

Grenadines sky

On this day last year: Home theatre, Coccoloba. “Coccoloba” is the name of the house we stayed in last year. Here’s a link to it on the Mustique Company site – the photographs of the house are mine.

Home theatre

Sunday January 16, 2011

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – Here we are after a snow storm. Again. Lovely light and rapidly moving clouds made this image of illuminated trees against a dark background possible. Taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 300mm lens.

Warren Connecticut

Warren Connecticut

On this day last year: My best barn of the past year. Terry Tanner’s barn in enveloping light.

Terry Tanner's barn

Tuesday January 11, 2011

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent most of the day in the office. Fortunately in the late afternoon there was a moment when the light was wonderful, so I caught this image looking south from 919 Third Avenue with my Leica M9 and 35mm Summilux II lens. It’s two frames stitched.

South from 919 Third Avenue

South from 919 Third Avenue

On this day last year: Dinner at Le Bernardin.

Le Bernardin

Friday December 31, 2010 New Years Eve

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WARREN and DABURY CONNECTICUT – I’ve got a couple of images for New Years Eve. We had an excellent sunset, followed by a costume party given by our friends Bill and Bunny Beekman. The sunset is three frames stitched taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 100mm lens.

Maria went dressed as a nun Here she is in character, taken with my Panasonic GF-1 and a 14mm pancake lens. This is genuinely scary.

Finally, New Years greetings from me, with Francesca.

On this day one year ago: Guess what? A New Year’s Eve party at the Beekmans.

New Year's Eve

Wednesday October 13, 2010

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This evening I took a walk on West 12th Street. I arrived here just before sunset, catching the long shadows on a bar.

I’m writing this post on the evening of October 17 – the delay is a consequence of shooting a lot of images over the last few days (requiring a lot of time and effort to edit) and a power failure in Connecticut this weekend which left us in the dark and without computer power. One consequence of the delay is that the previous day’s image (October 12), an image that I don’t much care for, has been at the top of my blog for a long time. Memo to self: in the future I have to be much more disciplined about getting posts up following an image that I’m not proud of (the photo a day format insures that there will be some of these).

Anyway, the bar in the West Village shot with my Leica M9 and a 50 mm Summilux Asph. lens.

West 12th Street

Tuesday August 24, 2010

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MASSAI MARA KENYA – A sunset. I’ve actually posted this a year late because I realized that I hadn’t actually posted my image for this day when I tried to find it for my “one year ago” exercise on August 24, 2011. I actually took the following picture, a sunset, on the right date but didn’t post it.

Sunset

Sunset

Thursday July 22, 2010

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – At last a decent landscape image. I’m primarily interested in landscape, which for me often means urban landscape because I live in New York. You can’t dress, stylize or direct landscape. You have to wait for it. The best light is often around sunrise or sunset. Sometimes when it happens no one is looking. Sometimes you wait for it and it doesn’t arrive. This is my 281st daily post since i started this project last October. About half of the images are in New York. No more than a dozen of them are landscapes that are actually of interest.

This was an unusually productive sunset, looking East out the windows of our apartment. I’ve posted my favorite out of the group. Some of the outtakes are interesting enough that I’m posting them in a comment – click on the date above to see and add comments.

Moonrise over Lexington Avenue

Nikon D700 with 70-200 f2.8 lens.

Saturday May 8, 2010

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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

Tuesday October 20, 2009

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UMPQUA HIGHWAY, OREGON – A travel day.  Lovely fading light found me in Oregon driving on the Umpqua Highway (which follows the Umpqua River from Drain to Reedsport). But the road had no shoulders and no turnouts so I drove for miles looking for a safe place to stop with a view across the river to something – caught with a long lens.  I don’t ordinarily shoot long lenses; I don’t care for the flattened perspective and I never seem to get much of interest from them.  This image was made with two overlapping frames stitched together on the computer.  Thus the square format.

Umpqua Road Oregon

Umpqua Road Oregon