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Culture

Thursday June 27, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A rushed day getting ourselves collected for our trekking trip to the Dolomites. I snapped a shot off with my iPhone on my way to Paragon to top up on some gear – rushing to get something before going into travel mode, because my work on travel days in uniformly terrible.

I’m actually posting this on July 25, more than two weeks after I took this image. i planned on traveling without a computer to save weight; the iPad that I’m traveling with doesn’t have quite enough horsepower to maintain this blog. On June 27 I actually posted my entry for June 17 and had written and warehoused posts for June 18 through June 27 so all I have to do with my iPad is actually publish a post out of the inventory on a roughly daily basis. As I write this on July 15 I’m back at my computer scrambling to write the posts from my time in Italy.

Here’w the June 27 iPhone shot:

The First Department
The First Department

On this day one year ago: Swiss cheese on the hoof

Swiss Cheese on the Hoof
Swiss Cheese on the Hoof
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Food and wine

Wednesday June 26, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent the morning working from home and getting myself sorted for our trip to Italy tomorrow. Photographically I used the quiet time to test my new Leica 50mm Summicron asph lens. We know that it’s very sharp at all f-stops shooting distant subjects. I confirmed that with some shots out my window which I haven’t posted because the difference doesn’t show up at web resolution. Around the apartment I shot a bunch of subjects close and wide open, test the character of the lens’s rendering of the out of focus background, the so-called “bokeh” of the lens. It turns out that the bokeh is neutral and rather pleasing (this is sometimes not the case with highly corrected lenses(. Here’s an example taken with my Leica M:

Best lens
Best lens

On this day last year:in the clouds in Switzerland.

Above Sils Maria
Above Sils Maria
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Abstract Landscape Urban

Tuesday June 25, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – This morning I spotted an Escher structure with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph lens.

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On this day last year: On the trail to Sils Maria.

St. Moritz
St. Moritz
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Landscape Urban

Monday June 24, 2013

NEW YORK – A new lens arrived today: a Leica 50mm Summicron Asph. Leica announced this lens last year. It’s specs are daunting: it is diffraction limited at f4.0 and nearly so at f2.0 and f2.8 across the full 35mm sized frame. “Diffraction limited” means that it has the highest resolution permitted under the laws of physics. It’s also tiny, about the same size as my Leica 50mm Summicron.

Here’s an image with it from today taken outside our office. I’ll be using this lens a lot over the next month. “Induro” is evidently a new restaurant – I think of Induro as a brand of high end carbon fiber tripods.

Enduro
Enduro

On this day last year: Photo shoot.

Photo shoot
Photo shoot
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Landscape

Sunday June 23. 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We took a hike this morning in a state forest just across the valley from us. I’m continuing to try to express our local deciduous forests. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 dual range summicron lens.

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20130623-L1009861

On this day last year: Switzerland.

On the trail
On the trail
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Landscape

Saturday June 22, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I went to work around a large, turtle-shaped stone here with my Leica Monochrom and my 1958 Dual Range Summicron lens. Here’s what I got; three frames stitched.

Big rock
Big rock

On this day one year ago: The Swiss Alps.

Glacier melt
Glacier melt
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Landscape

Friday June 21, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’ve made good this one time on my promise to myself to get up to Connecticut on Thursday evening. More experimentation with my 28mm PC lens on my Leica M, this time with some wildflowers.

Wildflowers
Wildflowers

On this day last year: Scuol Switzerland.

Engedine
Engedine
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