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Wednesday April 3, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Ugh. Tax day is April 15. Today is my day to complete pulling our 2012 documentation together to hand over to our accountant, who will make an educated guess as to our liability so we can file an extension on April 15. This, plus some calls and reading in my law practice, took over the day. Visually I’m out of the moment and out of touch.

But wait. What about my blog. On days like this I get small with my iPhone. Here you go:

Actually on sorting back through some files on April 13 I found a couple of files that I like so I’ve edited this post and included the following shot with my Leica Monochrom and a 21mm Super Elmar M lens:

On this day last year: Paris Review benefit.

Saturday March 30, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I spent part of the day getting to know my new camera, a Leica M, also known as the M240. With this camera Leica dropped the number after the “M” on their rangefinder cameras (so just “M” not “M10”). Marketing genius. Whatever.

I’m starting to get pretty good results from it. It’s operations are the smoothest and quietest of an Leica M ever. There’s not much of a learning curve. Here it is with my f.95 Noctilux strapped onto it with a neutral density filter that lets me shoot in daylight wide open. Below (the yellow tulips) is with a 1939 Carl Zeiss Jena 85mm f1.5 Sonar, a famous lens that doesn’t couple properly with the Leica rangefinder so it requires live view to be focused (the new M is first Leica to offer live view).

On this day last year: Spring. March 30 seems to be tulip day. Mayan wheel of time?

Tuesday March 26, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another poor landscape day so I busied myself around the house getting close with my IPhone. Today I made Bauhaus-style images along the lines of Ringl and Pit. This is actually working out really well.

On this day last year: Sale.

Friday March 15, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I dragged my Leica S medium format camera up to Connecticut for the weekend. Here I’ve taken a detail from our house with Leica’s 120mm macro lens.

On this day last year: Home. Shot with my Alpa Max.

Sunday March 10, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I continue to get good results from my Leica Monochrom. This may be the most interesting, and in some ways challenging, camera that I’ve ever owned. I’ve been very busy at my day job so I’ve been shooting what’s close at hand – giving the content part of my images a prosaic tilt. Here’s the front of our house.

On this day last year: Construction site.

Sunday February 24, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – A slow day tilling familiar soil for images. Leica Monochrom and f.95 Noctilux lens with a neutral density filter to permit shooting wide open in daylight.

On this day last year: rainy night.

Thursday January 10, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We came back to New York today – a long travel day which starts at 6:00 AM in Santa Monica and ends at 6:00 AM in New York – in both cases in the dark this time of year. As you know I sometimes struggle finding a good image on air travel days and this was no exception. In the end I shot a water bottle in our kitchen in NY our of desperation. I also made a few pictures of Francesca but they were terrible. So here’s the water bottle taken with my new Leica S.

Well ok. there’s always this one taken on the plane messing around with photo booth on my iPhone.

On this day one year ago: Vacant lot. Maybe January 10 is just a bad day for me.