NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m flying to London this evening. As a travel day this is rare as I actually had a chance to capture some images as I went about my day – travel days are usually a disaster for me from a photographic standpoint. Here are a few from close to home.
Day 1,737 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 276): Arethusa Farm/
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Meetings brought me to midtown and Park Avenue so I explored some familiar subjects with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Luxochron lens.
Day 1,736 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (1,006): Beantown rocks.
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – Another day in Boston. I really do spend too much time here hanging out around South Station.
Day 1,734 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago: Trees. And a long discussion of the concept and progress of this blog.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back to shooting with my regular lens selection. I had some time free this afternoon so I trekked down to the Lower East Side for lunch and Katz’s delicatessen and some photo opportunities.
Day 1,733 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 637): Moonrise.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – This is the final day of my one week forced march with my now less-new 15mm Zeiss lens. Today I’m exploring the lens’s “bokeh”, the character of the out of focus portions of images. This is actually fairly difficult since with a 15mm lens not much is out of focus. So I got really close to some flowers (8 inches or so) and took advantage of the cloudy day to shoot wide open at f/2.8, with a bunch of stuff in the background. The answer: this lens has lovely, creamy Leica-style bokeh (typical of lenses from the Walter Mandler era) with gentle focus to out of focus transitions. Very nice if you can find a situation to use it.
Day 1,732 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 271): Bus station, Beantown.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – More very wides with the CZ 15mm lens.
Day 1,731 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,366): La Scala.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting really, really wide with my 15mm Zeiss lens on my Leica Monochrom. Today I was in Union Square shopping in the greenmarket for groceries for a dinner party. The picture below was the best of a poor lot for the day. Another square crop (planned that way in shooting) to get rid of a too-large foreground. It looks “meh” to me but has actually been quite popular on my Twitter feed. I guess I got it wrong on the editing end.
Day 1,730 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,000): District of Columbia.
