NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went to a benefit tonight in Grand Central Terminal. This is still the best interior space in New York. Didn’t get much at the party but saw this on my way to the subway afterwards. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 Dual Range Summicron lens.
On this day last year: purse dial.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Spent part of the day on foot in Manhattan in pretty good light with my Leica M and 35mm Summilux lens. Go ahead, figure out what this is:
On this day last year: It doesn’t pay to get out of bed.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pretty good day for pictures. I’ve posted an “out my window” today (two frames stitched taken with my Leica M and a 35mm Summilus Asph lens. Out my window shots are usually a sign of desperation but because of enchanting light this was the best image from a day of pretty good images. Here you go:
On this day one year ago: The Charles. Here we are in Cambridge.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Back here for the day. I shot some hosta with my Leica M, which unlike my Monochrom actually shoots in color. I made two versions of this image: one converted to black and white and one in color. This pretty conclusively proves that I see in black and white better than color.
On this day last year: On the lake.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Those of you who have followed these pages for some time know that we’re usually in Connecticut on weekends. Well not on this particular day. I drove back down to New York early this morning to attend a reunion at Columbia. A thoroughly enjoyable day. I spent a couple of hours in a tour of St. John the Divine, the massive, unfinished Episcopal cathedral here in Morningside Heights near the Columbia campus. Construction started in the late 19th Century on a Romanesque plan; around 1910 or so a new high gothic plan was developed so the structure is partly gothic and partly Romanesque. Pretty odd. Traditional building techniques were used – the construction is all masonry – there is no structural steel. This means that construction has been slow and expensive. Work stopped for after Pearl Harbor and was not restarted until the 1970. Work stopped again early in this Century when the Church decided that the money was better spent on its mission that this massive pile of stone.
On this day one year ago: Red star.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Straight up in Manhattan. Tried this yesterday and didn’t like the result. Came back today with a different lens and different light. Leica Monochrom and 21mm Super Elmar lens.
On this day last year: Mary Karr.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back in midtown for meetings. A bit of the Racquet Club’s Florentine exterior with Citicorp in the background, taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1959 Dual Range Summicron lens. Two frames stitched.
On this day last year: David Michelek.
