Month: January 2013

Landscape Urban

Thursday January 3, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday January 9, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Taken with my Leica Monochrom and a 1945 vintage Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm Sonnar lens.

On this day one year ago: Taos Pueblo. I occasionally use a cropped version of this images as a header for this blog.

Tags Lipstick building, Manhattan, New York

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Wednesday January 2, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday January 8, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I walked around our neighborhood today looking for pictures. These are taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summilux lens. This is three frames stitched:

No stitching here:

this with my 90mm Elmarit lens, two frames stitched:

On this day last year: Wheeler Wilderness.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Park Avenue

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Tuesday January 1, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday January 7, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – New Years day. Slightly hung over and out of sorts. I took exactly one picture today, a picture of Maria walking the dog. On reviewing it I was horrified to find out that it looked like a terrible ’50s snapshot – harsh and over exposed in the bright sun. This with my Leica MM and 35mm Summilux lens, demonstrating that good equipment doesn’t make good pictures. I downsized it, moved to my iPhone and processed with Plastic Bullet, which adds a bunch of grunge. It looks pretty much like a ’50s snapshot badly processed.

On this day last year: Taos mountain.

Tags Maria Campbell

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Monday December 31, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday January 6, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Another day of showshoeing – this time in a different direction. We revisited the junk truck that I’ve posted on this site previously, and later did some work comparing lenses shooting our house from a tripod. Both images taken with my Leica MM and 35mm Summicron lens, which I subsequently sold. I purchased a copy of the current Leica 35mm Suumicron to test side by side with my Leica 35mm Summilux Asph lens. After a couple of weeks of shooting both i decided that I like the rendering of the Summilux better so I sold the Summicron. Buying and selling good used Leica lenses involves very little cost because the market is so robust.

On this day last year: Party on!. New Years Eve party in Taos with my iPhone.

Tags Junk yard, Rabbit Hill Road, Snow, Warren

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Sunday December 30, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday January 5, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – At last, a lovely crisp winter day with relatively new snowfall (actually nicely windblown for my purposes). In the late afternoon we took our Leica Monochrom and a vintage 1950s era Dual Range Summicron lens out snowshoeing with Maria. The main point of snowshoes in Connecticut (at least this year) is not deep snow but ice – they have crampons built into them which permit you to crunch across ice fields with confidence. We went out our door and over a neighbor’s farmland. The first image is two frames stitched.

On this day one year ago: Taos.

Tags Snow, Warren, Winter

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Saturday December 29, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday January 4, 2013

LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – We drove to Litchfield to catch up on post holiday sales and for lunch at a local diner. Images taken with my Leica Monochrom camera and vintage 50mm Dual Range Summicron lens.

Three images stitched: the Congregational Church in Litchfield, a subject that I’ve spent some time with in the past.

On this day one year ago: Travel day pimped up with an iPhone app.

Tags Congregational Church, Connecticut, Litchfield, Litchfield County

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Friday December 28, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday January 2, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I did some work today with my Leica Monochrom and my 1945 vintage Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm. f1.5 Sonnar lens. The results on this sunny snow-covered day were pleasing enough to me to warrant an mini-gallery so here you go:

On this day one year ago: Sundial.

Tags Connecticut, Snow, Warren, Winter