Landscape – Page 635 – Woody Campbell

Friday December 16, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I had lunch at the Barking Dog Cafe. A burger at the bar and a glass of IPA. The beer turned out to be a mistake – it predictably brought on an overwhelming need to nap. Anyway in the morning I got some work done and in the PM I did all of the prep work for a dinner party for 11 that we’re having in Connecticut on Saturday night.

Anyway here are the iPhone stills from the Barking Dog. One grunged up and the other modified with an app called Percolator, which overwrites the image with patterns of circles that are straight out of Benoit Mandelbrot.

On this day one year ago: musicians at the Union Club.

Wednesday November 14, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back on the street with my Alpa TC, 80 meg medium format back and Schneider lens. This is from an alley behind our building.

On this day last year: Self portrait.

Sunday December 11, 2011

TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT – Back to Torrington for the Center Congregational Church. This is an oddity – the only stone Gothic revival Congregational Church that I’ve seen I’m my travels in this part of the state. Here it is. Two frames taken with my Alpa Max and cropped to fit the form factor of the church. Torrington by the way was the birthplace of John Brown, the radical abolutionist who merits a line in the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

On this day one year ago: Union Savings Bank.

Saturday December 10, 2011

TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT – This afternoon I drove to this former mill town on the Naugatuck River to photograph churches. The light was right to collect two of the large Catholic Churches in town, St. Peter Church and St. Francis Assisi Church. The light was wrong for the Central Congregational Church – I’ll be back tomorrow morning for it. The large Episcopal Church, Trinity Church, is very tight to a narrow street and accordingly very hard to photograph. Anyway here are St. Peter and St. Francis Assisi, taken with my Alpa Max and an 80 meg Phase One back. These subjects require full use of the camera’s rise and shift features. The St. Francis Assis (the second image) is two frames stitched.

On this day last year: Marty gives us a sinister look.

Friday December 9, 2011

NEW YOEK NEW YORK – I spent some time this afternoon at Yancey Richardson looking at photographs, primarily by Andrew Moore. The experience was energizing. When I started this daily photo effort over two years ago I expected that a number of longer term projects would emerge. Looking at Andrew’s work and paging back through mine I’ve decided to push on the churches of Litchfield County project. I see a couple of phases, starting with taking an inventory of facades, making high quality prints as a means to get closer to the ministers/rectors/priests, doing more in depth studies (which I’ve only done at the Washington Congregational Church at this point), teasing out the narrative (which I have some ideas on but need further work to refine) and then more follow through studies.

But today I’m not in Litchfield County so I point my Alpa Max out our window into good light. I’m working to achieve technical mastery with this tool – it’s the key to creating the kinds of images that I’m looking for in Litchfield County. By “technical mastery” I mean that my hands do the right things without an need to think about anything but composition.

On this date one year ago: Urban landscape.

Wednesday December 7, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met Francesca at Columbia for afternoon tea. I caught this image of the Italian Academy. Not a brilliant piece of work on my part. I struggle on overcast and rainy days. It’s a matter of disposition, I suppose.

On this day last year: A Sugimoto show at Pace.

Saturday December 3, 2011

WASHINGTON DC – So today I’m presenting an iPhone gallery. We spent the weekend here, having a memorable lunch at Zaytinya, Jose Andres’ remarkable Lebanese/Turkish/Greek restaurant, visiting the National Gallery for the Harry Callahan show, and going to a musical in Arlington that was written by a friend. Altogether a fabulous weekend. I decided to travel only with my iPhone, but at the last minute I chickened out and brought my Leica and three lens kit (a 35, 50 and 90 – the Leica holly trinity). It turned out that I managed just fine with the iPhone. Here’s a selection:

And finally, not an iPhone – take with my Leica M9. It was too dark and too far away for the iPhone.

On this day one year ago: Delancey Street