PALM BEACH GARDENS FLORIDA – We went to school with Gigi today
Day 5,977 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly eight years to Calcutta India. Day 3,055 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – We had a walk through of the Bunker Artspace with John Welter, its director. The Bunker Artspace opened in 2017 as a private art gallery to present rotating exhibitions of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. The Bunker building was built in the 1920s as a toy factory, and was utilized as a munitions factory during World War II.
Day 5,976 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly eight years to Kolkata, India. Day 3,054 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
SINGER ISLAND – Here’s another out my window (actually off of our terrace) with the Ricoh Monochrome. The camera’s lens is wide, a 28mm equivalent. It offers “crop modes” equivalent to 35mm and 50mm. Interestingly the camera upscales the cropped files to roughly 30 megapixels. I expected the worst, but the files are actually flawless. This is a demanding architectural subject shot in the 50mm cropped mode and upscaled by the camera. The highlights aren’t blown and there’s reasonable shadow detail. There’s no barrel of pin cushion distortion.
Day 5,975 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back six years to an image taken on film with a Hasselblad XPan Camera. This is a detail from the George F. Baker House, located at 67-69 East 93rd Street near Park Avenue in Manhattan, an historic Gilded Age mansion designed by Delano & Aldrich in the 1920s.Day 3,783 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA – Here’s Francesca doing mommy duty at Gigi’s and Oliver’s school. The Ricoh Monochrome works pretty well at events – I’m going to have to master its “snap focus” feature to bet really good at events though.
Day 5,974 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly eight years to India. Day 3,052 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
SINGER ISLAND FLORIDA – Looking up with my Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. Revolutionary fact #1 about this camera: it’s tiny; it fits comfortably in the pocket of my jeans. Revolutionary fact #2: it’s 35 megapixel sensor is monochrome only; the absnece of a Bayer color filter effectively doubles its resolution relative to a color camera. Revolutionary fact #3: It’s 28mm equivalent lens is dramatically improved over the Ricoh GR III – it’s actually good enough for landscape and architecture.
Here we are looking up on Singer Island.
Day 5,973 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back eight years to a portrait. Shooting a Sony camera. Day 3,051 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
RIVIERA BEACH FLORIDA – A new camera arrived today: a Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. This thing is genuinely interesting, for me revolutionary in several ways. I’ll be shooting with it exclusively at least for the next week or so as I push it to understand its strengths and limitations. I got around to opening the box in the late evening so today’s image is a night time abstraction.
Day 5,972 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly eight years to school girls in India. This was taken during my Sony diaspora period, a period when I was shooting Sony cameras, rebelling against the cost of Leica gear. Day 3,050 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
SINGER ISLAND FLORIDA – We’re in Florida visiting our daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, so you’ll see a lot of images violating my “no cute kids” rule. We’ve rented a condo on Singer Island for a month.
Day 5971 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back 15 years to Park Avenue at night. This was shot on film with my Leica M2. Compare this image to the digitally captured night scene above – interestingly the digital image is much more realistic, but the film image is much more interesting. The latter fact may have something to do with the difference between Manhattan Island and Singer Island. Day 492 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
