NEW YORK NEW YORK – I walked around our neighborhood today looking for pictures. These are taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summilux lens. This is three frames stitched:
No stitching here:
this with my 90mm Elmarit lens, two frames stitched:
On this day last year: Wheeler Wilderness.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’ve spent some time digging around on the subject of Zeiss Jena lenses in the WW II and immediate post-war era. Jena was originally occupied by the Americans but was turned over to the Soviets and ultimately became part of East Germany. The Americans relocated some senior Zeiss managers and engineers and their families to the west; they went on to build what became the modern Carl Zeiss. When the Russians arrived in Jena they packed up the Zeiss equipment, drawings and records and most of the people and moved them to Kiev where they were set up to manufacture the same optics that had been made in Jena. The Contax factory and people were similarly moved to Kiev from Dresden. The Russians were acting within their legal rights – they had taken the Zeiss Jena and Contax business as part of the reparations from Germany. See this link for an interesting history: history of Kiev cameras. Ultimately after long Cold-War legal battles it was determined that the Kiev products couldn’t call themselves Zeiss in the United States so they became “Jenoptic” here. Here are some more images with my new old lens which is from this period.
Here’s the Seagrams building more or less wide open – the lens shows some aberration in the upper left corner.
Two frames stitched.
On this day one year ago: Bloomberg’s Christmas tree.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out and about with my Leica Monochrom and 18mm Super Elmar lens. An intense winter day. We left for Connecticut without having uploaded this images from my New Desktop, so we skipped December 19 until we got back to New York – I’m actually writing this on January 1 and posting it retroactively. Here it is – the sidewalk in front of Bloomingdales.
On this day one year ago: Christmas grunge.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A Christmas shopping day on Fifth Avenue. I spent an hour at the Fendi shop – when I told the salesman about my photo a day project we took me to the second floor fur salon where there is a wonderful view of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 28mm Elmarit lens. Three frames stitched.
On this day last year: Winter.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A modest day photo-wise that yielded this image of a vacant lot for my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summicron Asph. lens. Some days it may just be better to stay home.
On this day last year: Alley. So December 14 was a dull day last year.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – This is the best time of year to photograph Manhattan at night. “Night” happens early. It’s dark by 5:30 0r so so the lights are still on in most offices while the exteriors are dark. This opportunity continues through mid-January, but at least now it’s not freezing cold. I’m working without a tripod here with a fast lens, my 24mm f1.4 Summicron, and relatively high iso (5000) on my leica Monochrom. Shooting up in Manhattan is a regular theme here. Here you go:
From this day one year ago: Churches in Torrington.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a moment of brilliant light just outside of the building that my office is located in. One of the lessons that I learned on a four month photographic excursion in Brazil a decade ago was whenever good light arrives stop and shoot whatever is at hand. Anyway, the following are taken with my Leica Monochrom and am 18mm Super Elmar lens.
On this day last year: Shake Shack.
