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Infrared Landscape Urban

Thursday December 17, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Another day shooting infrared.  This time shopping on Fifth Avenue.

Fifth Avenue

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Infrared Landscape Urban

Wednesday December 16, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back in my comfort zone: midtown Manhattan on a clear, sunny morning shooting infrared. A half dozen of my out takes are better than anything else that I’ve done this week.

Citicorp Center
Citicorp Center
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Icon Infrared

Tuesday December 15, 2009

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – I drove to Brooklyn Heights this afternoon to drop a print off with a friend and client. While there I retraced my steps from last week but this time shot infrared as is my style in capturing icons. (Shooting with a Leica M8.2 which is suffers from infrared sensitivity, but this is an advantage if you are shooting with an infrared filter.)

This is my two month anniversary of this blog.

Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
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Events and holidays Food and wine

Monday December 14, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Party at the Four Seasons Restaurant.

Four Seasons Restaurant
Four Seasons Restaurant
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Food and wine Interior

Sunday December 13, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Our drive from Connecticut to New York was one of the worst ever – torrential freezing rain.  A normally two hour trip took three and a half hours.  We arrived tired and out of sorts, not really in a state of mind to photograph.  Here’s dinner with a friend at a local bistro.

Quartorze Bis
Quartorze Bis
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Landscape

Saturday December 12, 2009

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Up before sunrise on a very cold day.

Sunrise
Sunrise
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Icon Urban

Friday December 11, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Today I went to Brooklyn to explore the Brooklyn Bridge from the east.  The Brooklyn Bridge is an icon.  My objective in my icons work is to sneak up on the subject from an unusual angle, approaching it as if it had never been seen before.  This isn’t always successful, but here’s today’s attempt.  This was at mid-day – it would be far more interesting in early morning light.  To be explored further.

Yesterday and today I had a rare moment of self-doubt.  Why am I doing this?  In the end I’m a landscape photographer – some of my work looks architectural because I live (for most of the week) in an urban landscape.  My formal portraits are fine but I don’t seek that work out.  My street work is pedestrian.  I was really struggling last night a Lincoln Center – finally settling on the fountain centered on the Metropolitan Opera.

You’ve heard of Rembrandt and Vermeer and probably Frans Hals.  They painted people (primarily in historical settings) in 17th Century Holland – the “golden era of Dutch painting”.  It’s less likely that you’ve heard of Aelbert Cuyp or Jacob van Ruisdael.  They painted landscape in the same era.  The Wikipedia entry on the golden era says “landscapists were the ‘common Infantry foottmen in the Army of Art'”  citing Samuel van Hoogstraten for the quote.  Citiscapes ranked even lower.

Anyway, here’s today’s view of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Brooklyn
Brooklyn
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