SALT LAKE CITY UTAH – I took a slow drive through Salt Lake on a mining expedition for interesting houses. I came up with a few – A lage portion of jSalt Lake’s East side was built during the post-war housing boom. Sort of Levitown goes west. Images taken with my Leica M9 and 35mm Summilux lens.
On this day last year: Bedroom.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – On Broadway and around Rock Center with my Noctilux.
On this day last year:
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’ve just come through a couple of poor days from a photo point of view. A major mistake and a major blah. I resolved to get serious today so I bolted the Nocti on to my M9, screwed on the .9 neutral density filter (so I can shoot wide open at f.95 in daylight) and went out into the world (actually to 22nd Street to put some film in for processing). Not bad. A day of looking up. It looks like my mojo just went into hiding for the last couple of days.
Dinner with the Nocti.
Shot through a sheet of saran wrap over the lens.
On this day last year: Look up!
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent the day exploring the Lower East Side block by block, packing my Leica M9 and 24mm Summicron lens, and my M4 loaded with Neopan and a 50mm Dual-Range summicron. Editing has proven tough so pardon the number of images.
On this day one year ago: Rainy day.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took a walk along upper Fifth Avenue on this rainy day with my Leica M9 and 50mm f.95 Noctilux lens. Since I’ve calibrated the rangefinder on the camera (and switched shooting eyes from my astigmatic right to my good left eye), I’ve been getting uniformly interesting results with this lens, which has the ability to render the mundane as poetry. Some examples:
On this day last year: Trump.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met a friend for lunch at Cafe Centro – it’s located at 200 Park Avenue (which is the building that used to be called the Pan Am building, which is next to Grand Central Terminal which serves a railroad that used to be called the New York Central). This area is haunted by corporate ghosts. Anyway, I brought my Leica M9 and Noctilux and captured a few images. I shot more with film, which I’ll post on a later date.
On this day one year ago: Healey on steroids.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Here’s one of the many construction sites for the 2nd Avenue Subway rendered with my Leica M9 and 35mm Summilux lens.
On this day one year ago: Sunrise in Lamu.
