NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The iconic Seagram Building in very late afternoon light. This is one of my favorite subjects – here the afternoon light emphasizes the color of the bronze cladding.
Leica M9 and 90mm Elmarit lens.
Tuesday September 14, 2010
Category: Landscape
Monday September 13, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I’m confined to midtown Manhattan for the next several days, occupied most daylight hours in meetings. I had a chance to further my exploration of Manhattan architecture and an icon or two in early morning and late afternoon light. Here’s one in late afternoon light on Park Avenue:
Leica M9 and 90mm Elmarit-M.
Sunday September 12, 2010
NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – Many of the buildings on the green in New Milford are draped in bunting this weekend, commemorating the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The light, high sky didn’t make for great photography.
Leica M9 with 35mm Summicron pre-ASPH v.IV. Three frames stitched.
Saturday September 11, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I’ve grown up in a landscape tradition of photography, where, like paintings of landscape, everything is in focus. Edward Weston accomplished this by stopping his lenses down – shooting at f64 to compensate for the inherently narrow depth of field of his 8×10 inch medium. One of the threads that I’ve been pursuing on this blog is exploration of the out of focus portions of the image (for example in my September 5, 2010 posting). The quality of a lens’s out of focus image is referred to as “bokeh” or “bo-ke” which is the Japanese term for blur. One of the lenses in my Leica kit is 35mm Summicron version IV (made between 1979 and 1997) – a lens that it known as the “bokeh king.” Think of shooting with this lens as riding with the king. It’s probably my most used lens.
Here’s in image from our garden in Warren, Connecticut:
Friday September 10, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Wake at the Colony Club for a dear friend’s mother. Here’s the Wikipedia entry on the Colony – the structure was completed in 1916 by Delano & Aldrich: The Colony
Thursday September 9. 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Second Avenue Subway construction site.
Wednesday September 8, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I got a few minutes this afternoon to take a walk in Central Park’s Conservatory Garden (entrance at Fifth Avenue and 105th street). See Central Park Website.
