WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Still fighting this miserable flu. This from the morning with my Alpa TC tech camera, a Schneider 35mm Digitar XL lens and my 60 meg Hasselblad back.
On this day one year ago: Ancramdale Presbyterian Church.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Back in bed battling the flu from hell. We cancelled a dinner party. I spent the weekend trying to prepare for meetings next week through the fog of flu. I got out with my tech camera for a few minutes in the late afternoon:
On this day one year ago: Riverside Boulevard.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I finally got out of bed today, although it turns out that celebration is premature. I met Francesca for coffee at her office and shot Grand Central Terminal with my medium format tech camera on the way. Hardly and innovative image, but I’m pleased to be off of my back.
On this day one year ago: Lexington Avenue Subway.
CAPRI ITALY – A doubly grim morning: a rare few hours of overcast, and we’re returning form Italy today. We did a walk around before getting on the aliscafo back to Naples. All taken with my Leica M9.
On this day one year ago: Lillis Funeral Home in New Milford Connecticut.
CAPRI ITALY – Here we are on the Fourth of July. There used to be fireworks and a big party in the Piazetta on the Fourth of July – the fireworks are alas gone – they were sponsored by a local Jeweler, Alberto y Lina, and the word on the street is they stopped doing it after Lina died.
We spent the day at a different place where large rocks meet the water, Bagna di Tiberio. Don’t let the picture in the link fool you – that isn’t sand that you’re seeing. Anyway this with my Leica M9 and a 50 mm Summicron lens.
Here we are on the funicular that connects marina grande to the piazzetta.
On this day last year: a dull Fourth of July.
CAPRI ITALY – We spent another day at da Luigi at the Faraglioni. This is from later in the day shopping.
We spent some time Saturday and Sunday at Le Conversazioni, Antonio Monda’s literary festival in Capri. We had run into Dona Tart on the aliscafo to the island, so we caught Antonio’s interview of Dona this evening. Leica M9 with a 90mm lens.
On this day last year: Clamps.
CAPRI ITALY – We spent the day at the da Luigi at the Faraglioni, one of those rocky places where people congregate to bathe in the sea in Capri. The link above says that you get there via a “pretty little path through the coastal pine trees that leads down to the sea”. That may be a fair description of the descent but the return is a very long uphill slog in the heat of the day with hundreds of steps. We’ve always gone to da Luigi and going there maximizes our opportunity for chance encounters with family and old friends. But I maintain that the real reason we go there is that walking back up the mountain burns any calories that might have been added by a truly superb plate of spaghetti alla vongole.
Anyway, lunch at da Luigi:
Da Luigi and the Faraglione from well less than half way up the path (three frames stitched).
On this day one year ago: Our new sign in Connecticut.
