WARREN CONNECTICUT – A small wind chime close up with my 1958 Dual Range Summicron.
Day 6,106 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back 11 years to the Capri Literary Festival (no kidding). Day 2,088 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I had a moment of panic in preparing to write this. I couldn’t find any image files for July 1 or July 2. Yikes. The end of the line. I had the experience last week of an SD card failing. I feared that the images might have been on the corrupted corrupted disk. After scrambling around for an hour I found that I had actually put the files in an unexpected place on my hard drive array. This led me to review my practices and hygiene around uploading and backing up images. So anyway . . .
The actual images were all taken with a 1958 Leica Dual-Range Summicron – legendary lense that is spending a week (or more) on my camera. Shooting open its rendering is gentle; stopped down two or three stops contrast and sharpness increase to modern levels, but still with a nice long gray ramp and lovely bokeh. I’ll be especially interested in getting to understand how it works with the close-focus “eye glasses.” Here’s a view that I photograph often to test equipment. It manages to look like vintage film shooting at f/2.0.
Day 6,105 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly fifteen years to a wedding in Capri. Day 626 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Ive ben experimenting on and off with how I can best use older Leica lenses. Here’s a heavily backlit image with my Mandler designed 1982 75mm Summilux lens, shooting at f/1.4.
Day 6,104 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back ten years to our regretably departed friend Steve who was having a serious moment. Day 2,452 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – In our garden today shooting with my legacy 35mm steel rim Summilux lens.
Day 6,103 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 16 years to Equador. Day 259 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I walked around after dark today. Here is Jupiter out of focus. Shot with my Monochrom wearing a 135mm APO-Telyt lens.
Day 6,101 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back to Ecuador exactly 16 years ago. Day 258 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I was preoccupied with preparation for a dinner party today, so photography got a short shrift. But here’s a portrait.
Day 6,101 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back 16 years to Ecuador. Day 257 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – We went to the opening evening of the Shag Festival here. I put an old lens on my Monochrom: a 1982 Walter Mandler designed 75mm f/1.4 Summilux, designed as a portrait lense with long gray ramps, lovely out of focus rendering and very thin depth of field. Guess what? Mount this lens and you take . . . portraits. There’s nothing quite like it.
Day 6,100 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back to Puglia exactly two years ago. Day 5,370 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
