Woody Campbell

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back home I took a walk in Times Square at sunset.  Times Square has lost its scruffy, sleazy vibe.  It’s now more like a cross between a Disney attraction and a corporate logo theme park.

Times Square

PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA – A thoroughly bad day for landscape photography.  Up at 5:00 AM to drive to Palm Springs to catch an 8:00 flight to New York.  All air traffic had ground to a halt because of the previous days bad weather and a heavy ground fog.  Almost four hours of delay.  We finally arrived in New York in the dark.

Here’s our departure gate in Palm Springs, waiting for an airplane.

Palm Springs airport

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK – The hoped for rain turned into sleet, then snow at Joshua Tree.

Joshua Tree snowfall

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK – A poor day for photography with a high, bright, partially overcast sky.  Hoping for rain tomorrow.

Joshua Tree National Park

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK – My old stomping ground at sunset.

Joshua Tree National Park

NILAND, CALIFORNIA – Salvation Mountain, near Niland. Right next door to Slab City.

Salvation Mountain

INDIO, CALIFORNIA -

Indio California

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK – Cholla.

Cholla

SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA – On the shore of the Salton Sea.

Salton Sea

ANZA-BORREGO DESERT, CALIFORNIA – I grew up in the desert in Utah so arid places are deeply in my comfort zone.  Anzo-Borrego is a serious desert – annual precipitation is less than 7 inches.  During the 1982-89 drought total precipitation was zero.  The Borrego Badlands is often listed as the hottest place in the United States – average summer temperatures are 107 degrees.  Highs of 125 degrees have been recorded.

But this spring there has been reasonable rainfall, so the desert here is remarkably green.

Desert in bloom

SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA – Sunset, after a long day a travel to the California desert.

Salton Sea sunset

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Author photo for Richard Cohen.

Richard Cohen

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A second day of heavy, wet snow.  Accumulation in Central Park is 18 inches.

Central Park at 90th Street

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We had a major storm in the Northeast today. This is in Madison park after a diner featuring Greyledge Farm grass fed black angus at the James Beard House.

Madison Square

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Times Square, on my way to see Time Stands Still at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

Times Square

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Dinner at Corton under the care of Chef Paul Leibrandt.  A remarkable meal.

Dinner at Corton

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back in Manhattan.  Lever House.

Lever House New York

WALPACK, NEW JERSEY – Across the Delaware River from Milford PA.

Walpack New Jersey

MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA – We spent the weekend in this village near the Delaware water gap.  Pinhole image.

Milford Pennsylvania

Pinhole

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Out my window, experimenting with a pinhole camera.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Washington for a food policy conference.  I spent the morning exploring the Lincoln Memorial end of the Mall, including an emotional hour at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Captured in infrared.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent the morning downtown at meetings.  I managed a walk around the World Trade Center construction site.  Captured in infrared.

World Trade Center Construction Site

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Madison Square at night.

Madison Square and the Shake Shack

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Sunrise on a much warmer day.  Just two weeks to March with its hope for Spring.

Warren sunrise

MORRIS, CONNECTICUT – Episcopal Church, Morris Connecticut.  This is one of my continuing series of churches of Litchfield County.

Episcopal Church Morris Connecticut

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Luke Tanner’s cornfield, off of Jack Corner Road.

Warren, Connecticut

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Infrared, outside of the Ferrari dealer on Park Avenue.

Ferrari

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Lexington Avenue at night, after a day of meetings.

Lexington Avenue

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The long-awaited blizzard arrived this afternoon.  The snowfall was very heavy but it was warm enough in Manhattan that it quickly turned to slush – there was not a lot of accumulation.

Madison Avenue

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Same subjects as yesterday, but a different angle and in color.

Racquet and Tennis Club