Landscape – Page 554 – Woody Campbell

Sunday February 15, 2015

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re here for the three day Presidnts Day weekend, pretty much snowed in. Very high winds and low temperatures bring with wind chill down to -20 degrees F. Basil the Norwich Terrier refuses to step out of the house so we have to make an accommodation for him in the garage. There is a landscape out there, but photographing it is an unappealing process. I did nonetheless manage a few images of windswept landscape.

Day 1,949 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day five years ago (day 123): Icy sunrise. We seem to have a theme here in rural northwestern Connecticut in mid-February.

Saturday February 14, 2015

NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – Adirondack chair.

Day 1,948 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year (day 1,583): Central Park Reservoir.

Friday February 13, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I shot around our neighborhood today. Sometimes this time of year the cold crisp days produce lovely light. Sometimes it’s just ordinary daylight. Today I caught ordinary plus, but not quite lovely.

Day 1,947 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year (day 1,583): Storm. There are quite of few of these.

Wednesday February 11, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Excellent light on the architectural detail of the General Electric Building at my usual subway stop on Lexington Avenue.

Day 1,945 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 1,215): Fog.

Monday February 9, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back on the street with my Leica Monochrom on a very, very cold day. I lean toward a single lens, a 50mm Leica Summicorn Asph., which I refer to as a Luxochron. Most images are wider – I do this by stitching multiple images:The tennis court bubble and the underside of the 59th Street Bridge is six frames stitched in Photoshop.

Day 1,943 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 482): Film! I shot this four years ago with a medium format rig shooting Ilford XP-2 “chromogenic” film. This illustrates the good and the bad of film. The bad: the white line to the right of Citicorp Center is actually a scratch on the negative – it arrived back from processing in that condition. It’s very odd that it’s perfectly parallel to the building – it almost looks like an act of vandalism. In subsequent versions of this image I’ve edited the line out.

Saturday February 7, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back here after a very long slog home. We returned to dirty snow.

Day 1,941 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 845): Lipstick.

Wednesday February 4, 2015

JODHPUR INDIA AND BEYOND – More images from the Umaid Bhawan Palace, our hotel here. According to Wikipedia:

Umaid Bhawan Palace, located at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, is one of the world’s largest private residences. A part of the palace is managed by Taj Hotels. Named after Maharaja Umaid Singh, grandfather of the present owners of the palace, this monument has 347 rooms and serves as the principal residence of the erstwhile Jodhpur royal family.

Umaid Bhawan Palace was called Chittar Palace during its construction due to use of stones commonly known as Chittar in the building. Ground for the foundations of the building was broken on 18 November 1929 by erstwhile Maharaja Umaid Singh and the construction work was completed in 1943.[1] The Palace was built to provide employment to thousands of people during the time of famine.

Later in the day we went on to Mihir Garh, near Jodhpur.

My apologies for the large number of images for the day – I’ve had trouble deciding.

Day 1,938 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.