Thursday February 6, 2014

ANTIGUA – I took a walk on the beach with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm lens. The actual picture that presented itself was a very large cloud that demanded very wide angle, so I shot 12 overlapping frames and stitched them together. It actually worked. I shot very, very quickly because my experience suggests that the movement of the surf from shot to shot can make it very hard to stitch. Here it is. This is a very high resolution file that could be printed to billboard size.

Day 1,575 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

Beach
Beach
Pareo
Pareo

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On this day last year: Gumbo. Curtesy of Diana Fisketjon.

Gumbo
Gumbo

Monday February 3, 2014

ANTIGUA – I packed a light tripod in my checked bag. I took it out in twilight this evening and set it up in the surf and took multiple long exposures, which I stacked in Photoshop to the following effect.

Day 1,572 of one picture daily for the rest of my life.

Spray
Spray

On this day last year: New Preston Falls. This was taken with my Leica Monochrom and Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm f1.5 lens from 1936.

Falls New Preston
Falls New Preston

Tuesday January 7, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We have an antique linen pillow case framed over our bed – it’s elaborately embroidered in white on white (actually creme on creme). Its very hard to read, let alone photograph. Today I shot it with an iPhone app called TurboScan that is meant to scan documents. TurboScan shoots in very high contrasts and actually rendered the text, “Sempre Uniti,” which in Italian means “Always United”, a declaration of love.

Day 1,544 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.

Sempre Uniti
Sempre Uniti

On this day last year: Santa Monica Beach.

Santa Monica Beach
Santa Monica Beach

Friday November 22, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A day of getting very close with my iPhone – which does well as a macro camera. Today I shot light sources around the house. The stripes on the wall of the square one are an artifact of a 60 cycle flicker of the LED light source. This was a “make something out of nothing” day.

Light Bulb
Light Bulb
Light fixture
Light fixture

On this day last year: Mustique.

Hike
Hike