Woody Campbell

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Today I’m shooting with a Carl Zeiss Jena lens from 1932. The focal length, 21mm, was remarkably wide for its time. I use an adapter that permits it to be mounted on a Leica screw mount film body. Next in the stack comes a Leica screw mount to Leica M adapter, and finally a Leica M to Sony adapter. Rube Goldberg but it actually works. I’ve mounted this combination on my Sony 7rII which I’ve had converted to infrared. Here you go:

Day 2549 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

On this day five years ago (day 723): Guggenheim

NEW YORK NEW YORK – If your read the fine print I’m posting this on Sunday October 9 – I’ve posted this exactly one week after shooting it. That’s actually my objective. I need a week to sort and edit images. On a typical day I take 30 to 50 images reflecting five or ten ideas. It’s actually a fair amount of work to decide what to post here, and some standoff in terms of time helps my editorial perspective. I’ve actually been running about a month late for a while for a variety of reasons, so I’ve been posting four or five entries a day during the past week to catch up. I hope to return to a more thoughtful editorial stance.

Today I shot in Central Park and on Upper East Side side streets with my Leica Monochrom on a tripod so I could use slow exposures to allow wind blur.

Day 2544 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 1083): One of the few gas stations in Manhattan

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Working today with longer exposures to get some motion in the shrubbery. Leica Monochrom plus 24mm f1.4 lens.

Day 2543 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 1082): Staten Island Ferry.