MUSTIQUE ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES – I spent a good part of the day walking around with my Leica S and a 120mm Leica macro lens capturing details. I’m getting the hang of operating the camera, but for me visual epiphanies using anything by wide angle lenses are few and far between.
On this day last year: Newark. Another tedious image from a travel day.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More walking around town with my new Leica S. Three frames stitched in Photoshop.
On this day last year: Naples Florida.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More urban landscape (here from the West end of 14th Street) with my Leica S, but less stylized than yesterday and thus less successful. This is three frames stitched in Photoshop.
On this day last year: Painting.
NEW YOR NEW YORK – As I may have mentioned before I’m in the process of getting my sea legs with a new camera, a Leica S medium format camera. This is always lengthy process. It obviously requires familiarity with the controls, but also an understanding of the camera’s capabilities and how to get the most out of it. This requires months of intense usage. Some of my early images have been uninteresting but I’m starting to hit my stride working back over some familiar territory. Today it was skyscrapers in dramatic light, something that I’ve done a lot of given my inclination toward landscape and my residence in Manhattan.
On this day last year: hay bales.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent today (photo wise) messing around with my new Leica S, Leica’s medium format competitor to Hasselblad and Phase One. There continues to be a lot to learn. Here are a couple of examples.
On this day last year: White brick apartment
LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – Still working with my Leica Monochrom and an 80 year old Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar lens, which produces a lovely “glow”. I’ve shot this church many times in this is one of my favorites. Three frames stitched in Photoshop.
On of many war memorials on the Litchfield green.
On this day one year ago: Williamsburg.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out a window in our offices with my new Leica S and 35mm lens. It produces very deep files that hold up under intense editorial abuse, in this case extensively lightening the foreground and darkening the sky.
