Author: Woody

WARREN CONNECTICUT – It was too cold to do anything so I messed around shooting snow. None of the images amounted to much.

Day 5,966 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back 16 years to looking up at the Ferarri dealership on Park Avenue. Shot in infrared.   The dealership is still there, as is the AT&T building in the background.   The AT&T Building is an elegant illustration of Parkinson’s Law of Buildings: perfection of a planned headquarters is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

The building was designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, completed in 1984. It’s widely considered the first major postmodern skyscraper, with its famous “Chippendale” broken pediment. AT&T’s chairman urged Johnson to make the new headquarters express the dignity of one of the most powerful corporations in the United States and to make it instantly recognizable as the company’s symbol. In January 1982, AT&T agreed to break up its local business into seven smaller regional operating companies. The building opened in 1984, the very same year the divestiture took effect on January 1st. The divestiture reduced AT&T’s book value by approximately 70%.  Sic transit gloria mundi .  Day 122 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

MANHATTAN – Brownstone houses here have all of the issues that homeowners in other parts of the country have. Including shoveling snow.

Day 5,965 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exacty 13 years to looking up on a foggy night near Citicorp Center. There’s a grace to this image that has always appealed to me.  Day 1,217 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

MANHATTAN – Dirty snow abounds here.

Day 5,964 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exactly ten years to the Seagrams Building. For a period a decade or so ago there were changing sculpture installations on the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building. Ten years ago there was a pile up of Harleys. This is one of their mirrors. Day 2,311 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Here are our front steps, and our stone rabbit.  The steps are not really passable but we’re not expecting anyone so it’s ok.  Note the drift in the background.

Day 5,963 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exactly 9 years to a bike near Madison Square. In browsing around Instagram and later Substack I’ve found that a lot of not very accomplished photographers include bikes in various forms and guises in their images. So I stopped shooting bikes. This was one of my last bike images. Day 2,676 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – My second fireplace image in as many weeks. This one is in Connecticut. The tile comes from Bantam Tileworks, a local place that designs and produces tile.

Fireplaces: what better theme in the remarkable cold that we’ve been experiencing here.

Day 5,962 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exactly ten years to a cold night in New York. Day 2,309 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – I’m here in the freezing cold picking up dry cleaning. Still shooting with my Ricoh GRD.

Day 5,961 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back 17 years to a dinner party in New York. Eight months before the start of my one photograph every day project.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I often drive on Jack Corner Road here, hoping for good light or some other redeeming visual phenomenon.  Today and 15 years ago are both at the intersection of Jack Corner Road and Rabbit Hill Road (home for us).

Today I’m shooting with my tiny Ricoh GRD IIIx, a tiny, pocketable camera that has full real camera controls and produces plausible real camera results.

Day 5,960 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back to Warren CT on this day exactly 15 years ago. This the same orchard depicted in the 2026 image above, but from a different angle. Not much changes in winter in rural New England.  The silo on the center right of the image has been taken down.   Day 481 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.