NEW YORK NEW YORK – The Villard House on Madison Avenue was built in the late 1880s by McKim Mead & White for the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It was subsequently owned by Random House and the Catholic archdiocese of New York; it’s now the Palace Hotel with the attached Emery Roth designed ugly monolith.
Day 1,993 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day one year ago (1,628): Amsterdam.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m deliriously happy being back in New York where there is some visual content to life. I wandered around the Second Avenue Subway construction today, where the work now seems to be focused on relocating the water, power, septic and other infrastructure displaced by the subway line.
Day 1,992 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 166): Grand Central Terminal.
NEW YORK NEW YOUR – Visually it’s a relief to be back here. I spent the day reveling in mundane New York details. But of course this isn’t a tropical paradise, and winter temperatures continue. I had trouble selecting the best image today so I’m posting four, with apologies for stressing your bandwidth.
Day 1,991 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 165): Emmet Gowan. A photograph of Gowan’s daughter, Nancy, in Danville. I posted this picture as March 28, 2010 but according to the file’s exif data it’s actually March 29. The camera date could have been wrong – I’m not certain. As this project has developed I’ve become more careful about setting the camera to the correct date and time because with 60,000 or so images so far in this project it’s hopeless to keep track of dates if the exif data in the files isn’t correct.
ANTIGUA – Our last day in our tropical paradise.
Day 1,990 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 164): House. This is a different image from the one originally posted.
ANTIGUA – Well let’s see here. Hmmm . . . I’ve got a couple of beach themed images here today: a shell and a beach. Taken with my Leica Monochrome and 18mm lens.
Day 1,988 of one photograph each day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 162): Post office. Pretty sinister image.
ANTIGUA – This continues to be a struggle. I got some light and shadows and a look up at a former sugar mill.
Day 1,986 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,256): muddy road. Ugh on the climate here.
ANTIGUA – Passing by a gift shop here today we ran across a large format photo book about Antigua that was billed as “the ultimate coffee table book”. Not hardly. The book and the photographs were terrible. The photographer was struggling, unsuccessfully, against the fact that all these island paradises pretty much all look the same; when you’ve seen a palm tree on a white sandy beach with white puffy clouds in the background you’ve pretty much seen them all.
I share the author of the book’s pain. Today, and perhaps this week, I’ll be throwing images against the wall to see what sticks. You’ll see more people that is usually the case in the space. My Twitter feed has taught me that most of my images of people aren’t very popular, probably because I’m better and landscape than people. You’ll see some macro shots.
Day 1,985 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 159): Chrysler Building. this is a personal favorite from the five year plus effort. It embodies the “New York as landscape” theme, one of the major theme in my work. The contrast with the Antigua images is breathtaking.
