Urban – Page 129 – Woody Campbell

Thursday December 22, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – This was a busy day of Holiday preparations. I took exactly one picture with my iPhone. (This will be a relief for those of you who have tired of endless iPhone galleries.) There was a single moment of magical light as I passed a truck with an amazing paint job. The iPhone does a good job of rendering extreme greens. (It’s less successful with reds.) I percolated the image with the Percolator iPhone app – this may have been a gilding-the-lily kind of mistake. Anyway, here it is:

On this day one year ago: costumes.

Wednesday December 21, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met with our friend and designer Antonella Scarsini at B&B Italia to look at some furniture. I captured a nice angle on the Christmas Tree in the courtyard of the Bloomberg Building and a bowl on a tabletop, both with my iPhone. Some work in post: grunging Bloomberg and percolating the bowl.

On this day last year: from my office.

Tuesday December 20, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – The day of the iPhone riot. A gallery of the Christmas Season images from midtown.

On this day one year ago: Bunny Beekman.

Monday December 19, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Feeling better. I went about my business today carrying my iPhone and collecting images. This thing is addictive. I haven’t tried very hard to edit the day down – I present this as an iPhone gallery. My reaction: “get a grip, Campbell.”

First an image that was not taken on December 19 – I’m posting this on Christmas Day so I thought I should share a Christmas greeting. The front of our house grunged up with an app called “plastic bullet”.

1185 Park with a tilt shift app that create an impression of very narrow depth of field, making everything look like toys.

A panorama stitched (defectively – there’s still a reason for these big cameras) from three frames.

More street.

Literally a picture of the street.

On this day last year: Chuck Klein.

Wednesday November 14, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back on the street with my Alpa TC, 80 meg medium format back and Schneider lens. This is from an alley behind our building.

On this day last year: Self portrait.

Friday December 9, 2011

NEW YOEK NEW YORK – I spent some time this afternoon at Yancey Richardson looking at photographs, primarily by Andrew Moore. The experience was energizing. When I started this daily photo effort over two years ago I expected that a number of longer term projects would emerge. Looking at Andrew’s work and paging back through mine I’ve decided to push on the churches of Litchfield County project. I see a couple of phases, starting with taking an inventory of facades, making high quality prints as a means to get closer to the ministers/rectors/priests, doing more in depth studies (which I’ve only done at the Washington Congregational Church at this point), teasing out the narrative (which I have some ideas on but need further work to refine) and then more follow through studies.

But today I’m not in Litchfield County so I point my Alpa Max out our window into good light. I’m working to achieve technical mastery with this tool – it’s the key to creating the kinds of images that I’m looking for in Litchfield County. By “technical mastery” I mean that my hands do the right things without an need to think about anything but composition.

On this date one year ago: Urban landscape.

Wednesday December 7, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met Francesca at Columbia for afternoon tea. I caught this image of the Italian Academy. Not a brilliant piece of work on my part. I struggle on overcast and rainy days. It’s a matter of disposition, I suppose.

On this day last year: A Sugimoto show at Pace.