Thursday November 13, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting the Noctilux, mostly wide open. Today I’m out with a 1.8 neutral density filter (six f-stops of darkening) which lets me shoot wide open on this sunny day. Here we go with a fairly common subject for me, two frames stitched.

Day 1,855 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

backit
backit

On this day five years ago (day 29): Birthday party.

Gary Fisketjon
Gary Fisketjon

Wednesday November 12, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m still lugging around the Leica Noctilux f.95 lens. it weighs almost two pounds, more than doubling the weight of my Leica monochrome camera. Here is some architecture from the street and in image at a book party for a friend’s new novel.

Day 1,854 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

IBM Building
IBM Building
Reading
Reading

On this day five years ago (day 28): Phones – old technology in Grand Central Terminal. I made a more energetic image on this spot a week later.

Grand Central Terminal - Lower Level
Grand Central Terminal – Lower Level

Monday November 10, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Familiar ground today: the Empire State Building. I’ve been following it for years as one of the icons that I fuss with. Of course the challenge is adding anything to the state of the art and mankind’s understand given that there are thousands of iPhone photos taken of it every day (some of them very good).

Day 1,852 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

Empire State
Empire State

On this day two years ago (day 1,122): Hay bails. Hay bails were rectangular back when I was a kid. They now have the proportions of soup cans. The march of technology.

Luke Tanner's Hay
Luke Tanner’s Hay

Sunday November 9, 2014

KENT and WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m continuing to experiment with my newly-repaired Leica f.95 Noctilux, shooting landscape and still life wide open, with a neutral density filter if necessary. The results are more dreamy than the hart-edged look that I’ve been cultivating for a lifetime, and thus a really good exercise for me. I’ve also included an image of Baby Victoria, our fabulous 12-month old granddaughter.

Day 1,851 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

Late fall
Late fall
Bell
Bell
Baby V
Baby V

On this day three years ago (day 755): Cobra.

Cobra
Cobra

Thursday November 6, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – The Union Club. Taken with my Leica Monochrom camera and f.95 Noctilux lens. Three frames stitched.

Day 1,848 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

Union Club
Union Club

On this day five years ago (day 22): 30 Rock. On reviewing November 6, 2009 I’ve decided that I like the following better than the stitch of 30 Rock that I originally posted

Abstract building
Abstract building

Tuesday November 4, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I strapped my Carl Zeiss 16mm lens onto my Monochrome today. This sense is really wide and has major charisma. It allows me to make ok images of mundane subjects. More on lenses later this week.

Day 1,846 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

Pedestrians
Pedestrians
Trash
Trash

On this day three years ago (day 750): Really close.

Placemat
Placemat