NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well . . . remember those meetings that I wrote about over the weekend? They’re now. I managed to slip out for a half hour to shoot around midtown, so here you go. Nothing earth shaking here, just lucky to have some images.
Day 1,859 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 398): High speed.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I took a break from meeting preparation to take a walk with my Leica Monochrom and 90 mm Elmarit lens. I ended up doing a lot of stitches – the lens was a bit long for most of the subjects that I saw. The example below is three frames stitched.
Day 1,858 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 32): 919 Third Avenue.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well, here it is, mid-November, and we’ve had our first snow. Not much – three inches or so – but a clear demarkation of the start of winter.
Day 1,857 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 761): Grass in Boston.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – This was a day largely spent preparing for meetings happening next week. So I took some images out my window with my Leica T and the marvelous 280 mm Leica Telyt-R lens. We stayed in town this evening to attend an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy at the Explorers Club.
Day 1,856 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
And here’s Lucy.
On this day three years ago (day 760): Four Seasons Restaurant.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting the Noctilux, mostly wide open. Today I’m out with a 1.8 neutral density filter (six f-stops of darkening) which lets me shoot wide open on this sunny day. Here we go with a fairly common subject for me, two frames stitched.
Day 1,855 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 29): Birthday party.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m still lugging around the Leica Noctilux f.95 lens. it weighs almost two pounds, more than doubling the weight of my Leica monochrome camera. Here is some architecture from the street and in image at a book party for a friend’s new novel.
Day 1,854 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 28): Phones – old technology in Grand Central Terminal. I made a more energetic image on this spot a week later.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Some Calder sculpture has appeared in the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building. I’m rushed today so I paused for a few moments to shoot details with my f.95 Noctilux lens. Nothing tectonic here from a photography standpoint.
Day 1,853 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 27): James Beard Gala at the Four Seasons Restaurant.
