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Landscape Urban

Friday October 9, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – What a crappy day. I could have gone out and captured images in the pouring rain, but I didn’t. Here’s an image of the RFK (nee Triborough) Bridge captured with a very long Leica R lens adapted to my Sony 7Rmii.

By the way, I’ve been putting up two posts a day for a while, catching up from the period when I was in Japan, China and San Francisco. Today I’m officially caught up (only a week behind which his my usual process) so I can go back to posting once a day.

Day 2185 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.

Day 2185 of one picture a day for the rest of my life.
RFK Bridge in heavy rain

On this day last year (day 1820): LUNCH. One of my favorite images of last year.

Day 1820 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
The former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital
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Landscape Urban

Thursday October 8, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the West Side today running some errands with my Leica Monochrom a a 24mm Summilux lens in hand.

Day 2184 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2184 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
New York New York 2015
Day 2184 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
Columbus and 68th New York 2015

On this day three years ago (day 1088): Ground Fog

Day 1088 of one picture every day for the rest of my life
Warren CT 2012
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Still Life

Wednesday October 7, 2015

PINE PLAINS NEW YORK – I had a busy, fragmented day today. I’m driving up here on a weekly basis working on settling matters in an estate that I’m executor of. I don’t find much to inspire me in Pine Plains. Today I shot around with my iPhone 6.

Day 2183 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2183 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
Pine Plains NY 2015

On this day four years ago (day 722): Guggenheim Museum in NY, Frank Lloyd Wright’s mid-50s masterpiece. We live just down the street from the Guggenheim so I see it almost daily but I’ve struggled photographing it. This is my favorite of the images that I’ve taken of it.

Guggenheim
Guggenheim
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Landscape Urban

Tuesday October 6, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – As I go about my day I look for parking lots and vacant lots – missing teeth in the structure of the city. They often permit points of view or light that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.

Today I’m back to shooting with my Leica Monochrom and a modern 50mm Asp. Summicron lens, in this case three frames stitched. I’ve taught myself to stitch reliably and do so every day at this point. The stitched image produces a very large file – larger than the highest resolution digital medium format cameras – which means that there are enough pixels that I can correct converging vertical lines in Photoshop and still have good resolution at the top of the frame. It turns out that this works better for me than the traditional way of avoiding converging verticals, a shift lens, because of the problem of decreasing image quality as you approach the edge of the shifted lens’s image circle. Anyway . . .

Day 2182 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2182 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
New York City 2015

On this day last year (day 1817): Madison Avenue. Another three frame stitch with my Monochrom with converging vertical lines corrected in Photoshop

Day 1817 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
New York City 2014
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Landscape

Monday October 5, 2015

WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK – A lesson that I learned decades ago in Brazil about landscape: on some days there is time where the light is somewhere between magnificent and magical. When that happens, stop what you’re doing (in this case driving), point the camera at anything and shoot. It doesn’t matter what. It’s the light that matters. Here are water bottles at a gas station on the Hutchinson River Parkway. Still shooting with the Carl Zeiss lenses from the 1930s. Amazing,

Day 2181 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2181 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
1936 Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens
Day 2181 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
1936 Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens

On this day four years ago (day 720): Riverside Park

Day 720 of one picture every day for the rest of my life
New York New York
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Landscape

Sunday October 4, 2015

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Still shooting with my Sony A7rii and an uncoated Carl Zeiss 5cm Sonnar lens from 1936. I’ve shot this tree before but it’s completely different through this lens, which produces transparent shadows but with good local contrast. The overall look amazes me. Autumn 2015 in living black and white.

Day 2180 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2180 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
Carl Zeiss 5cm Sonnar from 1936. Four frames stitched.

On this day two years ago (day 1450): Freedom Tower captured with my Leica Monochrom.

Day 1450 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
New York City Freedom Tower 2013
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Landscape Urban

Saturday October 3, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting ancient Carl Zeiss glass with my Sony 7Rm2. Around the neighborhood.

Day 2179 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2179 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
New York New York

On this day five years ago (day 353): Methodist Church, South Britain CT.

Day 353 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
South Britain CT 2010
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