NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the street with my Noctiflex on my Leica. Let me know when you get tired of out of focus backgrounds. At some point I’m going to need to move on.
On this day one year ago: after the rain.
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Tuesday May 29, 2012
Category: Landscape
Monday May 28, 2012 (Memorial Day)
NEW MILFORD CONNECTICUT – I’ve ragged on in the past about what a crap town this is. (For the uninitiated “crap town” is actually a term of art. Follow this link: crap towns.) I decided this Memorial Day to give the town a break and followed a road sign that said “9/11 Memorial”. It led me to a parking lot behind the train station where I found this. Captured with my Leica M9 and Dual Range Summicron, two frames stitched.
On this day one year ago: Rain.
Sunday May 27, 2012
KENT CONNECTICUT – John Novogrod and I spent s few hours here hiking in Macedonia Brook State Park. I’ve written elsewhere on the differences between Eastern US landscape (here) and Western landscape (where I grew up). In the West the landscape is expansive. Long vistas are common with changing points of view as you move across the landscape. In the East sight lines are truncated by the heavy deciduous forests an the choppy topography. It’s like walking though a room. Mottled shadow/suniight presents a dramatic challenge to a photographer in terms of dynamic range. This bears an obvious relationship to work I’ve been shooting in my landscape class in Central Park in the Ramble and the North Woods, Here’s an image with my Leica M9 and a 1950s era lens, a Dual Range Summicron that I’ve had adapted to fit on the M9.
On this day last year: Francesca Campbell.
Friday May 25, 2012
WARREN CONNECTICUT I drove up here in time to catch the late afternoon light on some astilbe with my Fuji.
On this day one year ago: Sunbather.
Tuesday May 22, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More interesting public art. There’s a new installation of a work by Dan Colen called “A Crack in the Clouds” in front of the Seagrams Building. It’s a bunch of Harleys that looked like they’ve been knocked over in parking lot. I spent an hour exploring them this afternoon. Here’s a sample, taken with my Leica M9 and the Nocti.
On this day last year: Rocks and ferns.
Sunday May 20, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I shot my Eleventh Avenue project today. Based on the yesterday’s scouting I started at 11:00 and worked through 3:30, taking a break for lunch during the period when the sun was directly overhead. I shot with my Alpa Max, 48mm Schneider/ALPA Apo-Helvetar (the Swiss seem to prefer long names for their lenses) and Phase One IQ 180 back 28 exposures, two per block on both sides of the street, from 40th Street to 47th Street. Here’s a sample. The approach is dead frontal documentation.
On this day last year: Rain.
Saturday May 19, 2012
NEW YORK NEW YORK = I’m embarking on a new project: I’m documenting both sides of 11th Avenue from 40th Street or so to 50th Street or so. The idea is to shoot frontally, with medium format, two frames per block. I’ll use the light on either side of mid-day to catch long shadows.
I went scouting for the project today using my iPhone. The Viewfinder Pro app lets me sort out lenses and points of view, and the Theodolite pop helps me with documenting GPS and other similar data. Here’s a shot from Theodolite:
On this day last year: Tom Barry.
