Woody Campbell

WARREN CONNECTICUT – After the rain.  We have a lot of shade here – our house is in a grove of native oaks and maples. So we’ve planted hostas in rail car quantities.  I’m getting a lot of use from the close focus attachment for my 1958 dual range Summicron.  (Claude suggested that I put the close focus attachment on the lens and just walk around all day getting close to things.  Good advice.)  I love its delicate rendering, three dimensionality and subtle bokeh.

Day 6,110 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back to Milan on this day precisely 14 years ago.  Luisa Beccaria is a major fashion designer.  Day 997 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We spent the afternoon with some friends at the annual Fourth of July picnic at the Washington Club Beach on Lake Waramaug. Here’s the egg toss. Still shooting vintage glass.

Day 6,109 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back five years to a train in Alaska. Day 4,283 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Alexander is staying with us for the Fourth of July weekend. He came down with accute appendicitis yesterday and had his appendix removed in the Danbury Hospital last night. I didn’t feel like shooting in the hospital so i caught this at home between visits to him. Still shooting with the 1958 Dual Range Summicron.

Day 6,109 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back to fireworks llst year in Bridgewater Conneciticut. Day 5,744 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Shooting my dual range summicron lens with the close up attachment at full aperture.

Day 6,107 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back to the Capri Literary Festival exactly 15 years ago. Day 628 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

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 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.