NEW YORK, NEW YORK – At dinner at the James Beard Foundation popup restaurant. (Note that this post was updated on Monday April 25, 2011).
On this day last year: a pretty conventional Chrysler building at sunset.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went to the Knickerbocker Club for a terrific performance of Gilbert & Sullivan by the Blue Hill Troupe. This image is from the dinner afterwards, taken with my small Panasonic.
On this day last year: Another meal – dinner at Corton.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – On New Years day we set up a backdrop and put scrim jims in front of a couple of windows to shoot portraits with the Hasselblad. Here are Francesca, Jeremy and Virgil. We’re coming to the end of the longest period that we’ve stayed in our Connecticut house since we’ve owned it.
On this day last year: Still at the Beekmans’.
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – So on Christmas Day I abandoned exotic gear and manual settings. I set my Panasonic GF1 in idiot mode, with face recognition focus and the flash turned on. Guess what. This really works for family events where you want snapshots without fail. I’ve put some of them up on my facebook page. These pages are supposed to be about serious photography. But in any event here’s Maria, evidently pleased by her Christmas present.
Once year ago today: Christmas prickly pear, San Miguel de Allende.
ROXBURY, CONNECTICUT – Another sensational Holiday season party. Here is Susan McCone and Maria. Captured with my Panasonic GF1 and a 14mm pancake lens.
On this day one year ago: At the pharmacy in San Miguel de Allende.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I carried my Leica around as I went about Holiday preparations. I stopped at a costume rental place on West 38th Street to pick out costumes for a New Year’s Eve party. Here is a portion of a wall of photographs, sent to the shop by clients, showing their costumes. Of course I had the Walker Evans image Walker Evans Studio in mind.
On this day one year ago: Dolores Hildago, Mexico.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We had a casual dinner at home in the kitchen with two friends of long standing, Bill and Bunny Beekman. Here’s Bunny Captured with my Leica M9 and the 35mm Summilux II lens, my new favorite lens on this camera.
The out of focus portions of the image are particularly interesting. I shot Bunny at f/2.8, where the lens has the creamy out of focus character typical of the pre-aspheric Leica lenses; wide open at f/1.4 it has a more edgy character typical of the current generation of highly corrected fast lenses. The following is an example. In effect this is two lenses in one – how it draws the out of focus portions depends on f stop.
On this date last year: Gallery in San Miguel.
