NEW YORK NEW YORK – Some nice results today with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens. Abstractions. Let me know if you get tired of them. This is turning into a major thread in this long-term project, maybe the best in my eyes, but self-editing (like self-surgery) is not totally reliable.
On this day last year: Marble Cemetery.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – There’s an unfriendly and disused public plaza on 57th Street between Madison and Park Avenue. Why do some of these work and others not?
Taken with my Fuji X100s.
On this day last year: Basil shakes it off. Another violation of my “no cute dogs” rule. This is actually my ninth shot of Basil since I started this project roughly 1,400 days ago. Nine violations is a lot; if the DMV were in charge of this blog I would loose my license to photograph. On the other hand it’s an error rate of well less than one percent, which I guess I can live with.
NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – I stopped the New Preston Congregational Church on my Sunday morning newspaper run. This is not a new subject for me but this time I took in some details with my Leica S2 medium format camera. On reflection the angel is not a great work of art – the face lacks the plasticity that a talented sculptor can provide – but hey, who doesn’t like an angel.
On this year last year: Flags project.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I had busy day work-wise in Connecticut. Client confidentiality and my natural reticence preclude any discussion of what I’m doing, but I can say that there seems to be a lot of it. I had time for a couple of snapshots with my Fuji X100s. Before I leave the house or apartment I always pick up a camera take a test exposure or two to make sure that there is a memory card and that the battery is charged, and that the camera’s setting aren’t off somewhere in outer space. I delete most of these in editing, but occasionally a test shot is the best image for the day. Here you go with our dining room in Warren. Later in the evening we had dinner with our friends Barbara and Charlie Robinson. Charlie is a painter and for some reason he’s used the top of a wood burning stove in their kitchen as a palette.
Taken with my iPhone at a point when I was concerned that I might not have another picture for the day.
On this day one year ago: La Pizza Fresca, my favorite pizza joint in New York. It’s actually not a joint: ingredients are first rate and they make Neapolitan-stile thin crust pizza (the only style that I tolerate) in a wood fired oven. The wine list is remarkable. Here’s a picture of the key actor in the Pizza Fresca drama:
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Here we are again with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens on a walkabout in Manhattan.
On this day last year: God.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Marvelous light today makes everything look wonderful – even shot with the baby Sony RX100 II.
On this day last year: Nikki de Saint Phalle in front of the Racquet Club.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I really have taken at least one picture every day for 1,362 days. That’s 46 months. Three years and ten months. Without a miss. But I do occasionally get behind on posting to this site. I like to post with about a week’s delay. That gives me time to self-edit a bit – to sort out what actually merits exposure here. But it means that I’m not exactly breaking hot news.
I’ve been a bit behind on posting because I didn’t take a computer on our recent Italian trip to save weight for the trekking portion of the trip. On return I was posting about three weeks later than the dates the photos were taken. Since then I’ve be doing two posts a day until today, when I’ve finally caught up to being just a week behind.
Here we have the inside of another vase taken with my pocketable Fuji, and an “out my window” in good light with the same camera.
On this day last year: Bourne onlookers.
