Landscape – Page 656 – Woody Campbell

Thursday May 5, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A new lens for my Alpa. Yesterday’s experiments finally convinced me that my 45 mm APO-Rodenstock Grandegon was just not up to the demands of a 60 megapixel back so I’m selling it and I’ve replaced it with a Schneider 48mm APO-Helvetar, which is optimized for large, high resolution digital applications. I’m experimenting to see if this longer focal length can successfully be used handheld in my Alpa TC. So far the results are mixed – it takes some time to find a working relationship with a new lens. Here’s an image of “visual noise” (and street food) on Park Avenue that came out of today’s effort.

On this day one year ago: Nan Talese at yet another party ant Antonio Monda’s.

Wednesday May 4, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Endless rain. This was captured on Lexington Avenue near my office with my Leica M9 and 28mm Summicron lens.

On this day one year ago: Out my office window

Saturday April 30, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – My birthday. We celebrated with a family dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, but no pictures from there. Earlier in the day I took a long walk in with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summicron lens.

On this day on year ago: 59th Street Bridge.

Friday April 29, 2011

SOUTHBURY CONNECTICUT – Here’s another installment in my project of photographing churches in Litchfield County Connecticut. This is the Southbury Congregational Church. See the gallery to the right. According to the Church’s website:

The Southbury Congregational Church was founded in 1732.

It occupied several sites until a third church was built on the present site in 1844. In 1923 the members voted to federate with the Methodist, and from 1923 until 1957 this church was known as the Federated Church of Southbury. The Federated Church served the spiritual needs of the community until the Methodist Conference requested that the federation be dissolved. In 1957 the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church joined to form The United Church of Christ, and in 1966 the members of this church voted to join the new denomination. At that time the name of the church became The United Church of Christ, Southbury.

Captured with my Leica M9 and a 50mm Summilux lens; three frames stitched.

On this day last year: Once again the Chrysler Building.

Chrysler Building and UN Secretariat Building

Thursday April 28, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I had lunch today in the cafeteria at Dewey Leboeuf. Here’s the view out the window across West 53rd Street, taken with my Panasonic GH2 and a 14mm pancake lens.

On this day one year ago: Dinner at the Knick.

Wednesday April 27, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I have better days and worse days. This was one of the better. Sometimes it is enough just to go through your routine day with a camera in hand. It helps that it’s Spring. I met Francesca (our daughter) at J. McLaughlin where she was picking up a birthday present for her fiance, and for a coffee.

the way regular visitors (thanks to all of you) may notice that I’ve changed the galleries to the right. I’ve added a collection pulled together from the Litchfield County Connecticut churches that I’ve been exploring for the last 16 months, and a series of timed exposures taken out of the window of a high speed train in China. Let me know what you think.

These were taken with my Panasonic GH2 and the wonderful 14mm pancake lens

Same setup. I’m using a crop of this as my blog header.

On this day last year: Bill Cohan and Maria at the Pen gala.

Monday April 25, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re having a vey late spring. My photo from April 24, 2010 shows our pear trees and a bunch of flowering shrubs in bloom. See yesterday’s post. This year we only have forsythia – the earliest of the large flowering shrubs. Here’s a forsythia captured on a rainy Monday morning before I drove back to New York with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.

On this day one year ago: One Rock, at night in the fog.