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Thursday October 11, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A day of lovely light in the city. The light would be to harsh for non-urban landscape, but here the pavement and buildings act as giant reflectors illuminating shadows, making them less dense. I’m continuing my Leica Monochrom marathon, this time with a 28mm Elmarit lens. The word on the street on this lens is that its high level of sharpness and contrast boarder on offensive. It actually mates well with the Monochrom given the generally fiat look the the Monocrhom files have out of the camera. I had trouble choosing afavorite so I’m presenting a mini-gallery today.

On this day last year: Gray day.

Wednesday October 10, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Stuck in my neighborhood, the upper east side, running errands today. A gray day at that. It appears that I’m in a slump. A local florist with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summilux FLE lens.

On this day last year: Tall grass.

Friday October 5, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Two images of a traffic control box from a walk around town today. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 Dual Range Summicron lens.

On this day last year: GW Bridge. I’ve adapted this to be a banner for this blog.

Wednesday October 3, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A physically miserable day – rain, fog, low flat sky. This is from my office window with the Leica Monochrom.

On this day one year ago: citicorp center.

Tuesday October 2, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We went downtown to explore the small retail presence of an online eyeglasses maker. They’re in the Puck building, just south of Houston. It appears that this building is now owned by New York University which is quietly bought up very important real estate in this area. Here’s the view out the 7th floor window. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and a 50mm Dual Range Summicron lens. Six frames stitched. The stitching software has done something odd here – the perspective of the original version of this image was somehow squished on the horizontal axis. I’ve replaced it with a de-squished version.

On this day one year ago: Laura gets made up

Sunday September 30, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back home. Out the window of a taxi on the ride back from the airport.

On this day one year ago: Bus.

Monday September 24, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Fuji has furnished a firmware update for the XPro-1 which I installed last night so I took the Fuji out for a spin today. The autofocusing is improved as promised. The problem with this camera, though, is that there are not a lot of lenses for it – the 50mm equivalent is terrific but that’s about it. Later in the day I met up with Maria and some friends for dinner and carried my Leica Monochrom and an f.95 Noctilux lens. The Monochrom fits my shooting style much better than the Fuji – I suppose that I’ll be putting the Fuji up for sale soon.

First with the Leica Monochrom:

You'll need a bigger one than that to impress her — You’ll need a bigger one than that to impress her

Now with the Fuji:

On this day last year: Pudong at sunrise.