Category: Portrait

Tuesday May 6, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday May 12, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a book party today for our Swedish friend Dag Ahlander, who has written a book of advice on living one’s life as a “retiree”. I used quotes here because Dag has been in constant motion since he left the Swedish diplomatic service. Here’s Dag, taken with my Leica Monochrom.

Day 1,664 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 203): Sunset from the High Line. This was originally taken and posted in color. Here I’ve converted it to black and white.

Tags Books, Publishing

Events and holidays Family and friends Landscape Portrait Urban

Wednesday April 30, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well, today is my birthday. I don’t like making a big deal of these anniversaries so we had a small family dinner out at Maialino, Danny Meyer’s displaced Roman Tratoria on Gramercy Park. I caught more tulips (i’ll soon get over this) in the rain, and then Alexander and Baby V at dinner. It was dark at Maialino so I brought my f.95 Noctilux and of course my Leica Monochrom.

Day 1,658 on one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day one year ago (day 1,293): Wiggly building.

Tags Birthdays, New York, Parties, Restaurant

Garden Landscape Portrait

Sunday April 27, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday May 3, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT and NEW YORK NEW YORK – A tale of good light and not so good light today. There were 15 minutes of profoundly beautiful light this afternoon in Connecticut. It was fleeting, as the sun dodged in an out of clouds. I shot what was at hand, a large tree, a mundane subject hereabout, with my Leica Luxochron 50mm lens wide open to blur the background. I ended up stitching three frames. Then later in the evening a dinner parter for a friend of long standing (not pictured here). I only shoot with available light which at dinners is often poor for portraiture. Anyway, here you go.

Day 1,655 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 194): Pen Gala.

Tags Connecticut, Trees, Warren

Family and friends Portrait

Sunday April 20, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday April 26, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – It’s Easter and we have a house full of people here. I’m slight grumpy because I’m the cook and folks seem more interested in chatting than helping in the kitchen. Here’s an update on Baby V, our granddaughter.

Day 1,648 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year (day 1,283): Jupiter Island.

Tags Victoria

Family and friends Landscape Portrait

Wednesday March 26, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday April 1, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a terrific dinner at the James Beard house for the Foundation’s staff and directors in advance of a meeting tomorrow.

This is day 1,623 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day one year ago (day 1,258): Bauhaus.

Family and friends Portrait

Thursday March 20, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday March 26, 2014

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Cocktails with an old friend who runs a publishing house that happens to have published a lot of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Later, at home, a lovely moonlit night out our dining room window – not a perfect image because I shot fast, using a beanbag on the window sill rather than a tripod.

This is day 1,617 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.