Landscape – Page 616 – Woody Campbell

Monday July 1, 2013

THE DOLOMITES – I’m at a bit of a loss on exactly where this was taken because I’m writing this in Connecticut separated from my copy of our Italian itinerary. Next trip I’ll use the iPhone’s gps to help document were I’ve been. So we’ll just look at the pictures, taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens, rather than write about them. The first image is six frames stitched.

On this day last year: Todi and Milan. On this day last year we drove from Todi to Milan, an itinerary that we will repeat this year later in our journey.

Sunday June 30, 2013

SCHUTZHAUS TIERSER ALPL – The hardest day in our trek. A long, long uphill slog from Schlern to this refugio in a high saddle. We sleep here in bunk bed accomodations and have a relatively simple meal – our only simple dinner of the entire trip. Well worth the effort. All images with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens.

On this day last year: Todi. Todi is actually our next stop (after the Dolomites) in this year’s trip.

Saturday June 29, 2013

VOLS AM SCHLERN AND ON THE TRAIL – After a leisurely breakfast we finally hit the trail. Al images taken with my Leica Monchrom camera and 50mm Sumilux Asph. lens.

Local scenery in Vols:

Our guide, Ken Fuhrer (yes, he really is our leader), of Walker Ryder in Teluride, which organized our trip.

Maria has her game face on:

Another couple at the refugio where we had lunch:

On this day last year: Wedding in Todi.

Friday June 28, 2013

VÖLS AM SCHLERN ITALY – That’s right, the name of this Italian town has an umlaut. 94% of the population here speaks German as their first language. This is the starting point of our week-long trek in the Dolomites, the name of the major alpine range in Alte Adige area of Italy. The Dolomites are named after the white calcium magnesium carbonate stone that is characteristic of the peaks in this region. Dolomite stone takes it’s name from Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, a Frenchman who described the stone in the late 18th Century. We got here after a very long day of travel by air and train, and finally a local taxi from Bolzano, which is a close as you can get by rail. We arrived just in time for a sunset over the town. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens.

On this day one year ago: Deruta.

Tuesday June 25, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – This morning I spotted an Escher structure with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph lens.

On this day last year: On the trail to Sils Maria.

Monday June 24, 2013

NEW YORK – A new lens arrived today: a Leica 50mm Summicron Asph. Leica announced this lens last year. It’s specs are daunting: it is diffraction limited at f4.0 and nearly so at f2.0 and f2.8 across the full 35mm sized frame. “Diffraction limited” means that it has the highest resolution permitted under the laws of physics. It’s also tiny, about the same size as my Leica 50mm Summicron.

Here’s an image with it from today taken outside our office. I’ll be using this lens a lot over the next month. “Induro” is evidently a new restaurant – I think of Induro as a brand of high end carbon fiber tripods.

On this day last year: Photo shoot.

Sunday June 23. 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We took a hike this morning in a state forest just across the valley from us. I’m continuing to try to express our local deciduous forests. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 dual range summicron lens.

On this day last year: Switzerland.