Author: Woody

Thursday October 14, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday October 14, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A crap day for photography. The weather was an appalling mixture of wind and rain. I carried my Leica around all day, but didn’t get much use out of it: My schedule consisted of lunch at the Harvard Club with an old friend (photography isn’t appropriate here) followed by a trip to B&H with the same friend but I didn’t have the wit to use my Leica there. An evening concert at Carnegie Hall, guest of a professional friend so again photography wasn’t appropriate. I arrived home after the concert empty-handed photo-wise, so I set my Nikon up on a tripod with a long lens and shot the rainy night out my window. Long exposures with long lenses are technically demanding and I was tired, so the results are so-so at best. Here’s the best of a poor lot, shot with a Nikon D700 and a 200mm lens with a 1.7x tele-extender.

Tags New York, Night

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Wednesday October 13, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday October 13, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This evening I took a walk on West 12th Street. I arrived here just before sunset, catching the long shadows on a bar.

I’m writing this post on the evening of October 17 – the delay is a consequence of shooting a lot of images over the last few days (requiring a lot of time and effort to edit) and a power failure in Connecticut this weekend which left us in the dark and without computer power. One consequence of the delay is that the previous day’s image (October 12), an image that I don’t much care for, has been at the top of my blog for a long time. Memo to self: in the future I have to be much more disciplined about getting posts up following an image that I’m not proud of (the photo a day format insures that there will be some of these).

Anyway, the bar in the West Village shot with my Leica M9 and a 50 mm Summilux Asph. lens.

Tags Greenwich Village, New York, Sunset

Events and holidays Portrait

Tuesday October 12, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We spent the first part of the evening at a fundraiser at One Oak, the currently in club/bar in Manhattan, located on West 17th Street in the shadow of the Highline Park. See High line

Tags Bars

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Monday October 11, 2010

BRIDGEWATER CONNECTICUT – We played hooky on Columbus Day. This was a perfect Autumn day for our last boat ride of the season. We put our 1954 Chris Craft on Lake Lillinonah and spent the day cruising, picnicking and enjoying the fall colors. This from the boat.

Leica M9 and 135mm APO-Telyt lens.

Tags Autumn

Landscape

Sunday October 10, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday October 10, 2010

NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – While Maria is shopping at a local boutique, J. Seitz, I wandered around the back of the building to shoot the waterfall over the dam that is part of the system that impounds Lake Waramaug.

Leica M9 with 50 mm Dual-Range Summicron (modified to mount on the M9). Two frames stitched.

Tags Connecticut, New Preston

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Saturday October 9, 2010

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I occasionally experiment with odd or eccentric bits of equipment to help keep the daily photo grind fresh. For the last few days I’ve been shhoting with a 12mm rectilinear (as opposed to fish-eye) lens on my full frame Leica M9. This lens is so wide that it’s a miracle that it even forms an image. When I say wide, I mean that I often find myself having to crop my knuckles out of the frame. Ultra wides offer huge depth of field so near-far compositions with everything in focus are possible.

I’ve sworn never to post pictures of pets. Why? I’ve explained this before. Pictures of pets remind me of the millions of pictures in online forums the read something like this: “This is my cat Wallace taken with my Canon Superturbulator 600 mm lens. You can see every whisker!” Lonely guy stuff. Nothing better to take a picture of than the pet cat. Anyway, this is my second exception in almost a year. Basil, our Norwich Terrier, wandered into the frame as I was exploring near-far. Leica M9 and Voigtländer 12mm lens.

Tags Connecticut, Pets, Warren

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Friday October 8, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday October 8, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In midtown for meetings. This was a good day for photography. The light was soft and encompassing – about 4:00PM is a great time of day to photograph Manhattan this time of year. I had enough good ideas that I had trouble selecting a single photograph. I initially posted a a new take on an old friend, the iconic Seagrams Building, with a very wide Voigtländer 12mm lens. After further review of the images I edited the post (on October 13) to include an additional image. I get feedback offline from a number of sources who help out as an informal editorial board (for example the Leica forum on GetDPI.com).

Here’s the second image captured with a Leica M9 and 54-year-old 50mm Dual Range Summicron (modified for M9).

Tags Manhattan, Seagrams Building