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Thursday January 1, 2015

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Let’s discuss New Year’s resolutions. I’ve made the usual ones dealing with weight and prompt response to phone calls and emails, and attention to my loved ones. Not surprisingly I’ve also resolved to continue one picture a day for the rest of my life – I actually expect better compliance with this one than with some of the others.

Exactly a year ago a resolved to make a concerted effort to expand my audience online. The progress that I’ve made during the year has been immensely satisfying. Thanks to all of you for your continuing support and interest in this project.

Despite the good intentions no great insights today from a photographic perspective.

Day 1,904 of a picture a day for the rest of my life.

Pond
Pond
Tractor
Tractor

On this day three years ago (day 808): Taos Mountain. Need I say that this was cold?

Taos Mountain
Taos Mountain
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Home Interior Landscape

Wednesday December 31, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – New Years Eve. We’re planning a quiet evening at home tonight, a relief given the high level of activity around here since before Christmas, so no pictures of drunken revelers today.

Every morning I load a card into my camera, format it, put a freshly charged battery in and then check it by taking a shot of my feet or whatever else is around to make sure that the camera’s settings are all inbounds. That way I know that I’m ready to shoot for the rest of the day. When I deviate from this routine I get into to trouble. Sometimes the random morning test shot its pretty good. Here’s the rug in my study here. Later in the day ruins somewhere near the town line between Morris and Warren, CT; there light was really dull so nothing of great interest here.

Day 1,903 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

Rug
Rug
Ruins
Ruins

On this day two years ago (day 1,173): Mack. I’ve rethought the crop on this one. I shot with a Rollei 2.8F for many years, then a Hasselblad 501. Both have square frames, so I often see things as squares. Two years ago I put this image up uncopped. Today I’ve cropped it square.

Mac
Mac
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Landscape Small town

Tuesday December 30, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – This was a productive day of shooting around Warren and New Preston. Most of our family members have departed so it’s a bit quieter. Still shooting my Leica Monochrom and antique Carl Zeiss lens.

Day 1,902 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

Luke Tanner's farm
Luke Tanner’s farm
New Preston Congregational meeting house
New Preston Congregational meeting house
Stone Church New Preston
Stone Church New Preston

December 30 has been a productive date for me so I’ve had trouble choosing a legacy photo. In the end I went with last year (day 1,537): Aleksandra .

Aleksandra
Aleksandra
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Landscape

Monday December 29. 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – You may have noticed that its been a while since I posted an urban image here. That’s because we came up to Connecticut on December 24, 2014; we’re staying here through January 4. This is what my life would look like if we moved to Connecticut full time. Note the prominence of local Congregational meeting houses. This part of Connecticut really is New England, and these structures dominate town greens.

Day 1,901 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

Hopkins Vineyard
Hopkins Vineyard
Warren Congregational Meeting House
Warren Congregational Meeting House

On this day two years ago (day 1,170): Litchfield. Three frames stitched, using a vintage 1954 Dual Range Summicron lens.

Litchfield
Litchfield
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Abstract Landscape

Sunday December 28, 2014

BANTAM CONNECTICUT – I shot around an abandoned factory here today with my Carl Zeiss 1945 Sonnar lens. There’s a bit urgency to this: Bantam is enjoying a real revival; the abandoned factor is actually in an early state of restoration.

Day 1,900 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

Ruins
Ruins
Ruins
Ruins

On this day three years ago (804): Baby cloud. One of my favorites from 2011.

Baby Cloud
Baby Cloud
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Family and friends Landscape

Saturday December 27, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m continuing to shoot with my antique Carl Zeiss 50mm lens, which stopped down is excellent for landscape and wide open has a lovely signature for portraits or just about anything else. Paraphrasing myself from a few years back my research indicates that the optical cell (the optical workings of the lens) was produced at the Carl Zeiss works in Jena, Germany in December 1945. So it actually is a Zeiss Jena 5cm f1.5 Sonnar. The lens cell was subsequently fitted to a Leica screw mount body by an unknown third party, probably in Germany, the UK or US, for sale in the UK or US. The distance scale is denominated in feet and Zeiss itself didn’t make any lenses in Leica mounts as Leica was a competitor (Zeiss and Leica were the equivalent of Nikon and Canon today). I can see why it would have been worth the trouble to convert this lens to a Leica mount: it is actually the equivalent of an modern lens in most respects at f4 and beyond – its performance is simply breathtaking and as noted above it has a lovely signature.

Day 1,899 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Falling down
Falling down
Suspician
Suspician
Baby V
Baby V

On this day last year (day 1,534): Cemetery, New Preston CT.

New Preston Cemetery
New Preston Cemetery
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Landscape

Friday December 26, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Here we are in Holiday recovery mode – making concentration on the visual present tense difficult. So . . . here are some backlit ornamental grasses.

Day 1,898 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

Yawn
Yawn

On this day two years ago (day 1,168): Night blizzard. One of my favorite images from the past five plus years.

Blizzard
Blizzard
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