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Sunday September 5, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Again, the evening light mimicking Fall.
Sunday August 15, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Woods near our house on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Warren, Connecticut Woods
Nikon D700
Sunday July 4, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well here I am in Warren for the Fourth of July. A quick personal inventory: Maria, my wife, is in Capri at a literary festival (no kidding); our son, Alexander is in Puerto Rico on vacation proposing to his girlfriend (she said “yes” so she’s now his fiance); our daughter is in Southampton with an old friend of hers. So I’m here by myself doing the lonely guy thing. After the excitement of Ecuador this seems dull. I picked up a different camera hoping for inspiration – not much came of it.
Sunset Warren
Hasselblad H3D 39 with 35 – 90mm lens.
Friday July 2, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our travel from Quito finally ended this morning after an all night flight with a layover in Miami. I managed to keep a lunch date with my son, and I managed to stay awake during the drive to Warren to arrive in time for dinner with some old friends.
Here is the sign for our house that we put out on Rabbit Hill Road after a number of guests were unable to find us. We used the wild turkey theme because . . . well we have a lot of wild turkeys.
Wild turkey sign
Leica M9 with 28mm Summicron.
Saturday June 19, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Perennial boarder. We bought our house in Warren in 1987. It was a split level ranch on a cornfield. We’ve added bits and pieces to the landscape over the years – it’s a delight that our efforts finally look like mature landscape.. It would be an exaggeration to say that we’ve had a master plan, but we have pursued a general direction, leaning toward the use of native plants in naturalized settings. We’ve planted one perennial boarder, however, that’s an exception.
Perennial boarder
Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux Asph
Saturday May 29, 2010
WARREN. CONNECTICUT – We had 12 long-standing friends over for lunch – this is the lunch that I did the grocery shopping for on Thursday.
Mary Jo
Leica M9 with 35 mm Summicron Asph.
Saturday May 15, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Up early for a lovely sunrise. We’ve controlled the underbrush in a wooded area to create a park-like setting. The over-the-top colors are . . . well . . . what it looked like. Image taken with a Leica M9 and 24mm Summilux – three images stitched.
Spring Sunrise
Saturday May 8, 2010
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
Sunday April 18, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Another gray, rainy day. But at the end of the day something amazing happened. Just as the sun set it briefly broke through the clouds. It was as if the landscape had been bathed in a red spotlight – one of those “It’s remarkable to be alive” moments.
Sunset after the rain
Sunday April 11, 2010
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
Saturday April 3, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Forsythia, the earliest blooming shrub in this part of Connecticut. The earliest bloomer of all is the crocus which doesn’t do that well for us because chipmunks like them.
Forsythia
Friday April 2, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Winter is loosening its grip.
Early Spring
Saturday March 27, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Birch at sunset.
Birches, sunset, Warren Connecticut
Sunday March 14, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We’re suffering under a major Nor’easter. Something like four inches of rain over twenty-four hours and high winds. Winter gives up begrudgingly here. This is the beginning of the mud season.
Warren Connecticut
Monday February 15, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Sunrise on a much warmer day. Just two weeks to March with its hope for Spring. Luke Tanner’s cornfield.
Warren sunrise
Saturday February 13, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Luke Tanner’s cornfield, off of Jack Corner Road.
Warren, Connecticut
Sunday February 7, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – A very cold day in Litchfield County. I decided to work inside.
Warren
Friday February 5, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I waited all day for the blizzard that the weather forecast had promised. No luck. By 10:00 PM still no picture. We had driven up to Connecticut so I took this time exposure in the dark.
Warren Connecticut
Sunday January 31, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – From this morning’s walk. Shot in infrared. I mistakenly deleted the file that I originally posted. When I went to upload it again I had second thoughts and posted a different image from the same walk.
Warren Connecticut
Saturday January 30, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – After a snowfall. This is shot in infrared and stitched from four separate exposures.
Warren, after a snowfall
Sunday January 17, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We had sleet on Sunday.
Sleet
Saturday January 16, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Terry Tanner’s barn.
Terry Tanner's barn
Saturday January 9, 2010
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Clear and cold; wind-carved snow drifts.
Warren snow drifts
Sunday January 3, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Northwestern Connecticut was struck by near blizzard conditions. Here’s the view out our window.
Warren Connecticut
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Luke Tanner’s corn field.
Luke Tanner's cornfield
Saturday December 12, 2009
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Up before sunrise on a very cold day.
Sunrise
Sunday December 6, 2009
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Sunrise after the storm.
Sunrise Litchfield County
Saturday December 5, 2009
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We’re having our first snow storm of the season. We’re on a high point, a few hundred feet above Lake Waramaug. The difference in elevation is enough that we have much more snow over the winter season than the lake. There are many, many more churches to photograph in Litchfield County but I felt that I should give you a break.
Snowstorm Litchfield County
Saturday, November 28, 2009
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – At last a crisp, clear late fall day. This is the sort of day that gives seasonal weather changes a good reputation. After struggling against against murky light for most of the week. I spent the afternoon in Litchfield having lunch and photographing the town. Tomorrow is supposed to be clear so I’ll come back for sunrise. Today’s posting is from a walk in the woods a little latter in the day.
Birches Warren, Connecticut
Sunday November 22, 2009
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – The Congregational Meeting House in Warren, Connecticut. Warren was carved out of Kent Connecticut in the 1780s.
The Warren town website provides the following history: “Warren was settled in 1737 as part of the Town of Kent. In 1750 a separate ecclesiastical society called the Society of East Greenwich was established and a church was founded in 1756. In 1786 Warren was incorporated as a separate town.
Even though for most of its history Warren has been an agricultural community, by 1810 Warren became known as an educational center with five private schools and an academy which produced 15 ministers and educators. Over the last two and a half centuries Warren’s population has fluctuated widely. By 1810 the town’s population had increased to 1100, but with the decline of agriculture and the local iron industry it reached an all-time low in 1930 with only 303 inhabitants.”
Wikipedia furnishes the following information on Warren: “As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 1,254 people, 497 households, and 353 families residing in the town. The population density was 47.7 people per square mile (18.4/km²). There were 650 housing units at an average density of 24.7/sq mi (9.5/km²).”
Warren, Connecticut
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