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Sunday June 16, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Tough day of preparing for meetings next week. Walked around the apartment in the late evening shooting into vases with my iPhone using flash. Here you go:

Vase I
Vase I
Vase II
Vase II

On this day last year: Fathers Day at Balthazar.

Balthazar
Balthazar
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Landscape

Saturday June 15, 2012

BULLS BRIDGE CONNECTICUT – Here we are on the Appalachian Trail somewhere near Bulls Bridge. I’m continuing my struggle with depicting landscape in the Eastern deciduous forrest. Here’s a color, consciously Cézanne-like, treatment with my Leica M and 28mm PC lens.

Deciduous forest
Deciduous forest

On this day one year ago: Flatiron.

Flatiron
Flatiron
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Out my window

Friday June 14, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent the photo part of my day experimenting with my new 28mm perspective correction lens. (Perspective correction lenses let you shift the lens position so that you can shoot a building for example without tilting the camera up; tilting the camera up results in converging vertical lines.) This lens was made for the Leica R single lens reflex camera. It was made by Schneider for Leica and is Leica-branded. The electronic viewfinder on my Leica M lets me use it with an R mount to M mount adapter (mine is made by Novoflex; Leica makes one but they are backordered everywhere). I spent a good part of the day shooting junk, getting familiar with the lens, which does have a bit of a learning curve.

Experiment
Experiment

I suffered a near disaster in producing today’s images. Somehow I lost the files. There was a 22-number gap in my Leica M files that included all of June 14. I looked at every possible way of finding and recovering them (including using a utility that recovers erased files from SD cards). No luck. I’m writing this from Connecticut a week after June 14. It turns out that I moved the files from the camera to my laptop in Connecticut, but later deleted them after I thought that I had transferred them to by desktop setup in New York, but actually hadn’t. I routinely empty my trash because trash photo images actually take up a lot of space. Ugh. But it turns out that my laptop backs up wirelessly in Connecticut and miraculously I was able to recover the missing 22 files with Time Machine. You can’t be too diligent about backing up!

Here’s what I had prepared to post for today when I thought that I had lost the files:

The dog ate my homework
The dog ate my homework

On this day one year ago: More trouble. Ironically one year ago was another day plagued by production problems – I walked around all day with a camera that didn’t have an SD card in it. I noticed the error at 10:30 at night and used the last bit of charge in my iPhone to capture this:

Near disaster
Near disaster
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Icon Interior Landscape

Thursday June 13, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went to a benefit tonight in Grand Central Terminal. This is still the best interior space in New York. Didn’t get much at the party but saw this on my way to the subway afterwards. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 Dual Range Summicron lens.

Grand Central at night
Grand Central at night

On this day last year: purse dial.

Purse shot
Purse shot
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Landscape

Wednesday June 12, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Spent part of the day on foot in Manhattan in pretty good light with my Leica M and 35mm Summilux lens. Go ahead, figure out what this is:

Figure this out
Figure this out

On this day last year: It doesn’t pay to get out of bed.

Hotel Room
Hotel Room
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Landscape Out my window

Tuesday June 11, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pretty good day for pictures. I’ve posted an “out my window” today (two frames stitched taken with my Leica M and a 35mm Summilus Asph lens. Out my window shots are usually a sign of desperation but because of enchanting light this was the best image from a day of pretty good images. Here you go:

Out my window
Out my window

On this day one year ago: The Charles. Here we are in Cambridge.

Runner
Runner
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Food and wine

Monday June 10, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Wine dinner tonight with some college classmates and other friends. Photographed with my Leica Monochrom and Dual Range Summicron lens. The cab ride (on a horrible night) to the dinner; some participants; and the wines.

Ride to wine event
Ride to wine event
Wine dinner
Wine dinner
The wines
The wines

On this day last year: Pizza from our Big Green Egg. Showing off my mastery of this item.

Pizza
Pizza
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