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Thursday December 15, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – There’s a lot going on in the iPhone photo world. Here for example is a site that does an iPhoto every day and reviews apps and the like: the modern iphotographer. Really useful source on apps. I’m sitting here looking at my iPhone 4G. It’s got 13 camera apps. Most cost $1.99. Or less. I’ve sorted out six post processing apps that I like or at least wish that I could master, and six photo information apps that I use when I’m shooting other cameras. This is fun, sort of productive and a real eye-opener. You’ll see a lot more of these over the next few weeks.

This one is an iPhone video still taken at a lunch meeting and processed with PhotoWizard that let me do the center focus thing and grunge it up a bit. there are lots and lots of photo grunge apps. Evidently everyone wants to be a hipster. I can move my visual self to Bushwick without actually having to move there. Cool.

On this day one year ago: Waldorf Astoria.

Tuesday December 13, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We entertained some Dutch friends in our kitchen. Captured with my Ricoh.

Christmas party at the Knick. Hmmm . . . . We’re doing the same things every year. With the same people. They’re not getting any younger. I sense an issue here. Memo to self: hang with younger people at edgier venues.

Monday December 12, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – It’s party season. Here we are at one of many annual holiday parties, this one at the Knickerbocker Club. The 2010 Knick party was my subject for December 13 last year. Taken with my Ricoh – the party animal.

On this day one year ago: torrential freezing rain.

Thursday December 8, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A friend, Bill Beekman, has collected a treasure trove of Virginia Woolf first editions, letters, manuscripts, autographs and photos. It’s all on display at the Forbes Galleries, starting with an opening tonight. Here’s Bill and his wife, Bunny, being photographed by a friend, and the same friend trying to photograph me with a very pretty white Nikon point and shoot. Taken with my Ricoh GRD IV, aka the “party animal”.

On this day one year ago: Interior at St. John the Devine. One of my favorites from last year.

Tuesday December 6, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I meet monthly for breakfast with a group of college classmates. One member of our group is the headmaster of an independent boys’ school – we meet in his office, which seems kind of appropriate on many levels. Here’s a picture of Andy, captured with my iPhone in video mode, using an app called Video Stills as a frame grabber to sort out individual video frames as stills.

On this day one year ago:

Sunday December 4, 2011

ACELA BETWEEN WASHINGTON DC AND NEW YORK – We took the Acela back to New York early this PM in time to get ready for the New York premier of “Warhorse” (the movie version) tonight. I caught Maria on the Acela with my iPhone.

On this day one year ago: Washington Congregational Church

Sunday November 27, 2011

NEW PRESTON and WAREN CONNECTICUT – So here’s another one of the buildings in New Preston Connecticut, shot with my Alpa Max, a 47mm Schneider Digitar lens and a Phase One IQ 180 back. I caught our friend Dorothee Grisebach and Maria with my Leica after we packed the car up to come back to New York.

On this day one year ago: Dog treats.