NEW YORK NEW YORK – Francesca has a new hat. This and the Triborough Bridge shot at the golden hour (which is particularly golden this time of year) were shot with my Panasonic GH-2. This is my kit for snapshots and for long lenses.
On this day one year ago: kitchen reorganization.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – As you might expect this is an emotionally flat day for me after all of the excitement of the wedding. My mojo is elsewhere. It’s gone into hiding. I hope it’s not gone forever. But I threw my Alpa into a small bag and soldiered on. I caught this at Citicorp Center on my way to the office. Everyone is alone, facing away from everyone else. Everyone is an island. That’s what life is like sans mojo. A lucky shot. Odd how you can do well at something regardless of your state of mind by just doing it daily.
The Alpa (with an 80 meg medium format back) is very demanding of technique when used handheld. At 80 megs of resolution a bit of camera movement was plainly evident in this image. I down-rezed the file to 24 megs – the file size produced by a high end Canon or Nikon – and the jitters disappeared.
On this day last year: a fixer-upper.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I found myself on the West Side for lunch. I captured this with my Alpa on my walk back to the office.
On this day one year ago: Lexington Avenue Subway.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We took a walk today in the West 20s shooting an Alp TC and 3mm Schneider lens.
On this day last year: Early fall in Connecticut.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We drove across the valley to visit our friend and neighbor Tim Angevine, who owns a Christmas tree farm and is playing an important role in preserving the rural character of Warren. His family used to be in the egg business – here’s a shot of his chicken coop – We’ve also done this as a panorama which will periodically appear as the banner for this site. Taken with my Alpa TC and a 72mm Schneider lens.
On this day last year: Early Autumn.
SHANGHAI – Back in Pudong for some images from the early morning. This is a travel day, usually a disaster for my photo-a-day project, but my departure time is a civilized noon, so I had time to get out in the good morning light before going to the airport.
20 hours later, but still Saturday, we’re back in Connecticut in time to catch a sunset with my Alpa:
On this day last year: Out my window. I’ve taken quite a few of these. I have to resolve to stop it. Or find a new window.
SHANGHAI – We have mostly finished our meetings so we spent part of the day as tourists. We went to the Shanghai Museem – Maria and I had been here in April. The collection is good but a little disappointing given Shanghai’s stature. In April we photographed the stairwell – it was the second photograph in my post for April 19. Here’s a link – scroll down to the second photo. stairway in Shanghai Museum. I shot the stairway again, this time a close up of the dragon-motifed banister.
I got bored with the Museum so I took a walk in the neighboring People’s Square. There were young couples with a single child everywhere, a result of China’s one child policy. The Chinese say that single children have six parents (including four grandparents) so they are seriously doted-upon. See the image below.
Finally the Shanghai municipal government’s building is located on the People’s Square. it was finished in the 1990s. It is clearly meant to be imposing but only succeeds at being tedious – typical of civic architecture everywhere in the world.
All images taken with my Panasonic GH2 and 1 14-140mm zoom lens.
On this day last year: East 51st Street.
