NEW YORK NEW YORK – Walking up Park Avenue late this afternoon I had a chance to spend some time shooting Will Ryman’s Roses with my Leica M9 and a Cosina Voigtlander 16mm lens. (Post updated April 25, 2011)
On this day one year ago: Congregation Shaaray Tefila.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back to Citicorp Center to point straight up with my Leica and my 24 mm Summilux lens. I come back to this subject a lot. I’m in a comfort zone here. Let me know if you think that I’m in a rut.
On this day one year ago: Giant purple woman.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Park Avenue is sprouting giant roses installed by sculpture Will Ryman. Here I’m using one as a backdrop for a solitary, struggling tulip. This was captured early evening with my Leica and a 24mm Summilux lens.
Post Park Avenue I had dinner with John Novogrod, an old friend, at an Argentinian restaurant in Alphabet City.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Still looking for Spring I took a walk today in the Conservatory Garden in Central Park. I actually found Spring here. A quote from Wikipedia:
The Conservatory Garden is the only formal garden in Central Park, New York City. Comprising 6 acres (24,000 m2), it takes its name from a conservatory that stood on the site from 1898 to 1934.,,The park’s head gardener used the glasshouses to harden hardwood cuttings for the park’s plantings. After the conservatory was torn down, the garden was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, landscape architect for Robert Moses, with planting plans by M. Betty Sprout;[2] constructed and planted by WPA workers, it was opened to the public in 1937. . . . After the Second World War the garden had become neglected, and by the 1970s a wasteland. It was restored and partially replanted under the direction of horticulturist and urban landscape designer Lynden Miller, to reopen in June 1987. . . . The high-style mixed planting was the first to bring estate garden style to urban parks, part of the general renewal of Central Park under Elizabeth Barlow Rogers of the Central Park Conservancy.
This taken with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens. I’ve used a crop of it for my banner.
On this day last year: Hydrangias.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I took a walk this morning looking for signs of Spring in Manhattan. Not much luck on the Upper East Side. A few flowering trees in early stages of their Spring displays. Not impressive. This with my Leica M9 and the Bokeh King.
On this day last year: Fort Green near the Brooklyn Navy Yard
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In case you thought your view was limited. Leica M9 and “Bokeh King”.
On this day one year ago: Out my window, testing a 300 mm lens for my Hasselblad.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well , , , walking down Park Avenue I had a major surprise. In the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building (for me the center of the universe in many ways) someone seems to have deposited a giant yellow teddy bear. I love this thing. It fills my need for monumental odd-ball sculpture in this area, a need that had been frustrated with the passing of Hello Kitty. What we’re seeing here is Urs Fisher’s big yellow teddy bear lamp which is said to have recently sold at Christies for an eight-figure price. This is sufficiently fun that I’ve flaunted my usual rule and included two images.
On this day one year ago: A picture of Cathy Robbins at Quatorze Bis.
