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Landscape Urban

Monday April 16, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m back to Manhattan, lurking about, and looking up, trying to find odd angles, interesting shadows, surprising reflections and so on. This with my Sony NEX-7 and a 50mm Summilux lens.

On this day last year: Out my hotel window in Shanhgai.

Shanghai
Shanghai
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Garden

Sunday April 15, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our Callery Pear trees, running at full throttle. These aren’t really pears – they are a distant cousin of the rose, originally from China, but now widely used as a cultivar here. They are highly valued for their symmetry and dense, long lasting foliage. This is very early for them – we’ve had a warm, dry spring. Taken with my Alpa TC, Phase One back and 32mm Rodenstock lens.

Callery Pears
Callery Pears

On this day last year: a dreaded travel day. A lounge at Newark Airport.

Continental Lounge Newark
Continental Lounge Newark
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Garden Landscape

Saturday April 14, 2012

SPRINGTIME IN THE BERSKSHIRES – It’s hard not photographing Spring in Warren, here in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains (actually where I grew up the Berkshire mountains themselves would be considered foothills, and just barely at that). You’re going to have to suffer through flowering trees and shrubs on weekends for a few more weeks. I’ll try to keep it gritty during the week. Taken with my Alpa TC and 32mm Rodenstock lens.

Pear tree
Pear tree

On this day last year: One of Will Ryman’s roses on the Park Avenue Divider. Faux spring. This was taken with a Voigtlander 15mm lens on my Leica – I kind of liked the blue cast on the edge so I didn’t correct it.

Roses on Park Avenue
Roses on Park Avenue
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Landscape Urban

Friday April 13, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Hmmmm . . . Friday the 13th. I took a walk on 11th Avenue in the morning light. 11th Avenue is great for urban landscape. There are Hopperesque blocks. There’s a tenderloin vibe. This sort of thing has mostly disappeared in Manhattan. Hell’s Kitchen might as well be renamed “Dante’s Catering”. I captured a couple of images with my Alpa TC, 32mm Rodenstock and Phase One back, a setup that I use hand-held — it works like a digital Hasselblad Superwide C.

We stayed in the City – rare for a Friday night – because I and a friend hosted an “Edwardian Dinner” at the Knickerbocker Club. The image is from my iPhone – I’m in the picture (but I set it up) so there’s obviously a guest photographer.

Here’s 11th Avenue:

Tenderloin
Tenderloin
Butler Building
Butler Building

The Edwardians:

The Edwardians
The Edwardians

On this day last year: Dinner at the James Beard Foundation popup.

Popup
Popup
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Landscape Out my window

Thursday April 12, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I periodically go back to school on photography. It’s a great way keep to technical skills fresh, to get work critiqued and to meet new friends. Today I started a ten week class on landscape at the International Center for Photography taught by Benjamin Dimmitt, a landscape photographer who does a variety of subjects and has a particularly lovely body of work on primitive Florida. The first assignment was to shoot “out your window”, literally or figuratively, in a comfort zone, at various times and in various lights. Of course I shot out my window, something that I’ve done frequently here, at various times over a 24-hour period. You’ll be seeing more of these over the next few weeks.

So . . . I put my Alpa Max on a tripod, selected a 72 Schneider lens (the “normal” formal length for this format) and fired away. The results where ok, but the most interesting thing going on seemed to be the sky so I switched to a wide lens (the 32mm Rodenstock) to get more of it. Because of accidents of meteorology the night images came out as the most interesting.

Out my window
Out my window

On this day one year ago: Citcorp. I photograph the Citicorp building and its neighbors a lot: Citicorp Center images. I love their bulk and the surprising angles and reflections. It’s also convenient for me. My advice to urban landscape artists: Look up!

Citicorp
Citicorp
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Landscape Urban

Wednesday April 11, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK (yes it’s that place again) – I took the big guy out today (my Alpa) hoping for landscape. The light was a disappointment – the camera is heavy so it’s really no fun to lug it around all day and come home empty handed. Well not quite empty. The playground near the 96th street subway stop was momentarily suffused in curtain filtered sunlight so I caught this (Alpa with Phase One IQ 180 back and 32mm Rodenstock lens).

Games
Games

On this day one year ago: James Beard Foundation popup restaurant.

JBF Ltd. - James Beard Foundation restaurant pop-up
JBF Ltd. - James Beard Foundation restaurant pop-up
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Street

Tuesday April 10, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – All day meetings. I mean starting at 8:30 and ending at 6:30. These tend to be crumby photo days but once again I got lucky and captured this with my Sony Nex-7 and 24mm Leica Summilux at the subway entrance at 59th and Lexington.

Blond
Blond

On this day last year: Another good flower shot. The 24mm Summilux does its magic again.

Tulip
Tulip
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