NEW YORK NEW YORK – A weak look up – I’m struggling a bit this week. I’ve done other similar pictures that are much stronger. The dull light today made me feel dull.
Day 1,834 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day one year ago (day 1,469): Welcome Victoria. I wasn’t struggling last year.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – On a walk in the East Village today I ran across a bit of fence that had painted strips on it so that if you line them up just right it made the face of a man. On the way home a subway artist sketched the pretty young woman sitting across from me. That it. October 22. In a nutshell.
Day 1,833 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 7): Bandon Beach OR.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Blah day on the upper east side. Two frames stitched with my Leica Monochrom.
Day 1.832 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 736): XXX at the Public Library.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – This was an “out my window and around the house kind of day. I did some more work with very long glass on my Leica T. I few years ago started a voyeur project, basically shooting with a long lens out of our dining room window at the thousands of apartments visible from here. The idea was to catalogue the art on other people’s walls. Surprisingly, one almost never see anyone. There was an exception today.
Day 1,831 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 735): World Trade Center Memorial.
NEW YORK NEW YORK and WARREN CONNECTICUT – Enough celebration. Back to one photo every day humdrum. Here we are on Sixth Avenue with my Leica Monochrom; ending the day in Warren.
Day 1,828 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 2): For Rent. A depressing sign of the times five years ago.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – October 16, 2014 is the fifth anniversary of “One Photograph Every Day for the Rest of My Life.” 1,827 days. Without a miss. This is the first day of year six.
In documenting this long-term project online I’ve reached an audience that would have been impossible in a pre-digital era. I tweet images daily (the same ones that I post here). Woody’s Twitter feed. I passed a major milestone last week: more than 50,000 Twitter followers.
Needless to say I’ve learned a lot in five years. I’m working with an editor to explore threads looking to develop future shows. Over the next year I’ll begin selling prints of the most successful images.
On the first day of this project, October 16, 2009, I shot the Jean Dubuffet sculpture “Four Trees” at One Chase Manhattan Plaza. In retrospect the composition looks contrived (actually all compositions are contrived, aren’t they) but I’m stuck with this as image #1 forever. I went back and reviewed the 10/16/2009 shoot; the image that I posted was the only shot that I took of the Dubuffet (which is mad). Here’s a three frame stitch from the same day that I now find more interesting:
So let’s celebrate the anniversary with a gallery of what I found today on revisiting One Chase Manhattan Plaza (the Dubuffet is still there):
An Trinity Church:
On this day five years ago, day one, the ur-Dubuffet:
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’ve been living with my new website look for a few days now. I like the way it runs on tablets and smartphones. I’m less enamored with the three column look that it presents on a computer. I’ll go back to the drawing board on this over the weekend.
Today I experimented with my Leica T (which has good live view and adapts well to Leica manual focus lenses). Today I shot out our window with a Leica R 280mm f4.0, a long lens that has remarkable charisma. Here you go.
Day 1,826 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
Here’s the context of the above image.
On this day one year ago: Schloss Elmau
