NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In case you thought your view was limited. Leica M9 and “Bokeh King”.
On this day one year ago: Out my window, testing a 300 mm lens for my Hasselblad.
Wednesday April 6, 2011
Category: Landscape
Tuesday April 5, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well , , , walking down Park Avenue I had a major surprise. In the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building (for me the center of the universe in many ways) someone seems to have deposited a giant yellow teddy bear. I love this thing. It fills my need for monumental odd-ball sculpture in this area, a need that had been frustrated with the passing of Hello Kitty. What we’re seeing here is Urs Fisher’s big yellow teddy bear lamp which is said to have recently sold at Christies for an eight-figure price. This is sufficiently fun that I’ve flaunted my usual rule and included two images.
On this day one year ago: A picture of Cathy Robbins at Quatorze Bis.
Monday April 4, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – This is the heaviest time of the year in my day job. As you have learned if you’ve read my biography I’m a lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton. We’re supposed to treat clients and each other professionally so its bad form burst in on people popping a flash in their faces. So on days when I find myself in the office for long hours I tend to take breaks wandering the halls looking for whatever. Here’s an image taken in a conference room. And of course here we are stalking the Chrysler Building (one of my favorite subjects) and a modern riff on the 1929 Marcel Breuer armchair, a rough contemporary of the Chrysler Building and itself a design icon.
On this day one year ago: Christ Episcopal Church, Sharron CT
Sunday April 3, 2011
WAREN CONNECTICUT – Here we are in Warren doing the same thing that I often do in Manhattan: look up. We get a structural view of the deciduous canopy. In the summer the leaves almost totally obscure the sky. I’ll take more of these as the trees leaf out. Taken with my Alpa TC, 60 meg Hasselblad back and my 36mm Schneider APO lens.
On this day one year ago: Forsythia. This winter was much worse than last. The Forsythia are no where near blooming.
Saturday April 2, 2011
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We still have major snow drifts left where the roof was cleared and the snowplow pushed snow. This with my Alpa, 60 meg Hasselblad back and Schneider 36mm APO lens.
On this day one year ago: “winter loosens its grip”. No such luck this year. We had a much worse winter.
Friday April 1, 2011
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Here it is, April Fools Day, and it snowed briefly this morning. I took the subway to the Highline to see if I could find even a trace of Spring. Not much going on, plant-growth wise. This is what I captured with my Alpa TC and a Hasselblad 60 meg back and Schneider 36mm APO lens.
On this day one year ago: West 42nd Street. Captured with my Hasselblad. This image was not well rated by visitors to this site but I continue to like it.
Wednesday March 30, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took a walk around midtown with my Leica and the “bokeh king” lens this morning. My best image from my last couple of days is a fragment of the Rockefeller Center statue of Prometheus with the background deliciously out of focus.
Just for reference, here’s the other famous Rock Center statue, Atlas, which depicts Atlas supporting an armillary sphere, rather than the Earth. Taken at a few minutes earlier with the same equipment.
On this day one year ago: The bokeh king does Grand Central Terminal
