Category: Landscape

Wednesday April 30, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well, today is my birthday. I don’t like making a big deal of these anniversaries so we had a small family dinner out at Maialino, Danny Meyer’s displaced Roman Tratoria on Gramercy Park. I caught more tulips (i’ll soon get over this) in the rain, and then Alexander and Baby V at dinner. It was dark at Maialino so I brought my f.95 Noctilux and of course my Leica Monochrom.

Day 1,658 on one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day one year ago (day 1,293): Wiggly building.

Tags Birthdays, New York, Parties, Restaurant

Garden Icon Landscape

Tuesday April 29, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Spring is arriving. This is a tough time of year to photograph cityscapes around here. The city is flamboyantly in bloom. The street crud from the winter has been completely cleaned up. It’s hard to take a picture that doesn’t look like a cut in a White Flower Farm catalogue. Tedious. The temptation to shoot big flowering trees is irresistible. I’m fight this by sticking with black and white and using selective focus. Here are some tulips from the Park Avenue mall.

Day 1,657 on one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 196): Chrysler Building with the UN Secretariat Building in the foreground. This was originally in color – I subsequently did a fairly aggressive black and white conversion, which I like much better.

Tags Manhattan, Park Avenue, Spring

Icon Landscape Urban

Monday April 28, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday May 4, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the street (actually Lexington Avenue in the 40s) during the Manhattan golden hour. I’ve been pursuing the Chrysler Building for years. Here it is again. I found myself in Brooklyn this afternoon, at our daughter’s new apartment on Remsen Street. The view from her roof North.

Day 1,656 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 560}: the view from Dewey Lebouf.

Tags Chrysler Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Garden Landscape Portrait

Sunday April 27, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday May 3, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT and NEW YORK NEW YORK – A tale of good light and not so good light today. There were 15 minutes of profoundly beautiful light this afternoon in Connecticut. It was fleeting, as the sun dodged in an out of clouds. I shot what was at hand, a large tree, a mundane subject hereabout, with my Leica Luxochron 50mm lens wide open to blur the background. I ended up stitching three frames. Then later in the evening a dinner parter for a friend of long standing (not pictured here). I only shoot with available light which at dinners is often poor for portraiture. Anyway, here you go.

Day 1,655 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 194): Pen Gala.

Tags Connecticut, Trees, Warren

Landscape

Saturday April 26, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We seem to be vying with Seattle for the foggiest place in the known universe. Yes. It’s foggy today in Connecticut. And four years ago it was foggy on April 26 on Park Avenue. There are lots of pictures of fog that I could have posted today (both current and historical): these were just the best looking ones. All shot with my Leica Monochrom – the perfect camera for the weather.

Day 1,654 of one photo a day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 193): More fog. Shot in color but but for the taxis who would know.

Tags Connecticut, Fog, Spring, Warren

Landscape Urban

Thursday April 24, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday April 30, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I have discussed in the past the “golden hour” as it occurs in Manhattan. It’s not the period immediately after sunrise or immediately before sunset (as it is our in the real landscape) – at those times its too dark on the street for effective “cityscape” images. The best times of day at this time of year are actually around 10:00 in the morning and 4:00 in the afternoon when you have a rich interplay of shadows and reflections.

Out in the real landscape I’ve learned that when a golden hour occurs just stop and photograph whatever is at hand. It doesn’t matter what it is. It will look great. You’re photographing the light, not objects around you. The same applies in urban settings. When a golden hour happens just start shooting. I usually look up. Here I’ve done it again. Let me know if you are getting tired of these.

Day 1,652 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year (day 1,287): GM Building.

Tags Citicorp Center, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Landscape Urban

Wednesday April 23, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday April 29, 2014

NEW YORK – You’ve seen a lot of my work around the plaza in front of the Seagram Building and the Racquet and Tennis Club: Mies meets Stanford White. Of course cater-corner from the Seagram Building is DOM’s Lever House. Here it is backlit.

Day 1,651 of one picture a day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 921): Rock Center via iPhone.

Tags Lever House, Manhattan, New York