Category: Landscape

MANHATTAN – Another museum day here, this time at the Frick. The collection has be marvelously re-hung in a revitalized space. But . . . there is no place to sit. My preferred way of seeing art is to select an item and plop myself down in front of it for an our or so, researching its history and critical commentary. Unfortunately there is almost not place to sit at the Frick. Also, I learned after I snapped this image with El Greco’s Saint Jerome in the background, that photography is not permitted. Had there been a bench in front of Saint Jerome I would have used it for an hour. Still shooting with my Leica Q3 43.

Day 5,820 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exactly ten years to Beijing. September 19, 2015. Day 2,167 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

MANHATTAN – We spent the morning today at the fabulous Man Ray show at the Metropolitan Museum.

Day 5,819 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exactly six years to September 18, 2019. Portrait. Day 3,627 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

MANHATTAN – In our basement here.  Hmmm . . . looks like we’ve retrofitted a security camera.

Day 5,718of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back precisely 8 years to morning light in Warren CT. Day 2,896 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

BETHLEHEM CONNECTICUT – I stopped by Mark Mennin’s and Marcia DeSanctis’s house today to drop off a lasagna. Here’s some of Mark’s work at rest outside the house. I’m shooting with my Leica Q3 43, a backup camera – my beloved M11 Monochrom has gone off the Wetzlar Germany for some maintenance work; it gets heavy daily use so it occasionally needs attention. (I once owned a BMW M5 which turned out to be a shop bunny; the M11M appears to have common DNA in that respect.)  Leica has been very good at getting the camera back in good working order quickly at no expense to me.  But I miss it.

Day 5,817 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back precisely three years to Westerly RI, late in the Covid epidemic. Day of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Another shot looking down at a hosta. I did this better two weeks ago: September 3 Hosta. I should probablly stop shooting these.

Day 5816 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back exactly seven years to Warren Connecticut. This was taken with a  Leica Summilux-M 24mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, which has 11 aperture blades and accordingly provides a 22 point sunstar. (I no longer own this lens.)  Day 3259 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – Here’s a martini, ordered, consumed (but not by me) and photographed at the Waramaug Club. This is the second or third time that I’ve shot a martini close up in this project. The images was taken with my iPhone and the framing was a bit rough, so I used AI to recrop the image at the margins. Can you tell where?

Day 5815 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back ten years to September 14, 2015: I was in Tokyo on business with little time for photography so I snapped the Tokyo skyline from a window at the Hotel New Otani where I was staying.  I lost track of where this was taken from so I uploaded the image the ChatGPT, which was able to identify the hotel (this corresponds to my faded recollection). Day 2162 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

WASHINGTON DEPOT, CONNECTICUT – We stopped by the green in front of Bryant Memorial Hall here to enjoy a concert sponsored by the Judy Black Memorial Park.

Day 5814 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Looking back precisely eight years to September 13, 2017 in London. “Carrara Profiles” by Paul Vanstone was on loan  to the Royal Botanic Gardens. Day 2892 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.