WARREN CONNECTICUT – Another day of snowshoeing. Lovely light but the snow is less pristine and I find myself repeating yesterday. It would be nice to take a break but that’s not really an option in the photo-a-day world. Here’s something from my Leica S and 120 mm Summarit lens.
Leica Monochrom and 24mm Summilux lens:
On this day last year: St. Valentine’s Dau run up.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well the blizzard really did arrive: two feet of snow and major winds. Remarkably we haven’t suffered any damage or power outage. By the afternoon it cleared (but still high winds) so Maria and I took the opportunity to snow shoe. All images taken with my Leica S medium format camera and a 35mm lens.
On this day last year: Lexington Avenue
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We drove up here last night ahead of a predicted blizzard, hoping to get snowed in for the weekend. On the first day of the storm high winds, light snow and dull light. Blah. Not much going on. And it’s cold. Taken with my medium format Leica S camera and 35mm lens.
On this day last year: Steve.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – All day meetings interfered with photography but we had a chance to hang around Broadway for a few minutes on our way to dinner. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summilux lens. Three frames stitched.
On this day last year: Subway.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had dinner with our friends Gary and Diana Fisketjon; Diana grew up in Mississippi so she’s an expert at a roux based gumbo, which was very, very good. Taken with my iPhone.
On this day last year: Bob Marley party.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a party this evening in honor of a visiting German friend. I shot it with my Leica Monochrom and a 1837 Carl Zeiss Jena 8.5cm Sonnar lens. The Sonnar was designed for a pre-war Contax rangefinder camera, not for a Leica, so it took two adapters (one of them is quite complex) to fit it on a modern camera. It’s the classic small camera portrait lens of its era and has lovely rendering, but focus is flakey so I adjusted it so that focus was accurate at its close focus distance and focused by moving my body. I bought it in anticipation of the Leica M, which permits through-the-lens focusing without relying on the rangefinder, which doesn’t couple accurately with this lens. Here are some samples:
On this day last year: Superbowl.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another very old Carl Zeiss Jena lens on a adapter. This one is a 1937 Carl Zeiss Jena 8.5cm Sonnar f2.0. It’s consider one of the great portrait lenses of all time.. Very nice but on the adapter focus is a bit flakey. It should work better with the Leica M that I have on order which permits focusing through an electronic through the lens viewfinder. Once you sort out focus the images that it produces are lovely
On this day one year ago: small barn.
