Author: Woody

Sunday June 3, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday June 10, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect weekend. Here’s a view of the oak outside of our front door, and a snapshot of a picnic on our new old boat, and of the new old boat itself (a 1952 Chris Craft in amazingly good operating order – we got lucky on this one). I think of the second image as truly a moment to treasure. All taken with my Sony Nex-7.

I just received a camera that’s a bit of a curiosity. It’s called a Lytro. It incorporates highly innovative technology that lets you select a focus point after the image is taken, using Lytro’s proprietary software. This aspect of this device actually works and is amazing. But . . . the tiny viewing screen is useless in daylight (this is a point and guess camera) and the quality of the jpeg file output is poor. Here’s an example. Oh well . . .

On this day one year ago: Out my window.

Tags Lake Waramaug, Trees, Warren

Family and friends Portrait

Saturday June 2, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday June 9, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well here we are, back here again. This time with some old friends as weekend guests. I cooked up a storm on my Big Green Egg. More on this in a later post. Here are a couple of images taken with my Sony Nex-7 and Leica 35mm Summilux.

ON this day one year ago: Two icons.

Tags Maria Campbell, Publishing

Landscape Urban

Friday June 1, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday June 9, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Have I told you about my other passion? You guessed “food”, right? We’re having house guests this weekend in Connecticut so I planned menus and did food shopping today. I’m a poor multi-tasker so today’s photograph is pretty undistinguished, derivative of myself, an egg crate building shot an an angle. Taken with my Fuji X Pro 1.

On this day last year: Sam Flax.

Tags Manhattan

Street

Thursday May 31, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday June 9, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pedestrian day. Pedestrian in the sense that I walked a lot, not that it was commonplace. I walked from Grand Central to the ICP; attended my landscape class (in the printing lab so it was just ok); walked to Paragon to stock up for our forthcoming trip to Switzerland; had lunch at ABC Carpet. Altogether and excellent day. Here’s a chrome man statue that showed up in front of Paragon, taken with my Leica and a 35mm Summilux lens.

On this day last year: Father’s day.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Public Art, Union Square

Events and holidays Portrait

Wednesday May 30, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday June 9, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We went to a reading and book signing at the Barnes & Noble on 86th Street by our old friend Joe Kanon. Joe is a novelist who has written a series of books set in various places but all set in 1944-46, a period of great transitions. His books have been set in Los Alamos, Venice, Berlin, Hollywood, and in the latest Istanbul. Here’s a picture of Joe taken with my Leica and 50mm Summilux.

On this day one year ago: New Preston Congregational Church.

Tags Publishing

Landscape Urban

Tuesday May 29, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday June 8, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the street with my Noctiflex on my Leica. Let me know when you get tired of out of focus backgrounds. At some point I’m going to need to move on.

On this day one year ago: after the rain.

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Landscape Monuments

Monday May 28, 2012 (Memorial Day)

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday June 7, 2012

NEW MILFORD CONNECTICUT – I’ve ragged on in the past about what a crap town this is. (For the uninitiated “crap town” is actually a term of art. Follow this link: crap towns.) I decided this Memorial Day to give the town a break and followed a road sign that said “9/11 Memorial”. It led me to a parking lot behind the train station where I found this. Captured with my Leica M9 and Dual Range Summicron, two frames stitched.

On this day one year ago: Rain.

Tags 9/11, New Milford