Woody Campbell

Monday April 21, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Spring has arrived with a clamor so I took a walk in Central Park. I have a new old lens: a Leica R 16mm fisheye which I can use on my Leica M camera (generally converting its color images to black and white). This is not a true fisheye: it doesn’t produce a circular image with a 180 degree field of view: it’s more like 150 degrees. It does preserve size relationships near the edge of the frame which means that straight lines are curved. This is very noticeable when shooting architectural subjects which have straight lines, but actually looks natural shooting rocks and trees as in the first image below. Anyway, it was a nice day so I had trouble making selections.

Day 1,649 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (553): The Forbidden City

Tags Central Park, New York, Spring

Family and friends Portrait

Sunday April 20, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday April 26, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – It’s Easter and we have a house full of people here. I’m slight grumpy because I’m the cook and folks seem more interested in chatting than helping in the kitchen. Here’s an update on Baby V, our granddaughter.

Day 1,648 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year (day 1,283): Jupiter Island.

Tags Victoria

Landscape

Saturday April 19, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday April 25, 2014

NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – Family and friends have gathered in Washington CT for Easter weekend. Remember that I’m the foodie in the family so this means a weekend in the kitchen. There was decent light so I managed to sneak out for some photographs. The pictures of the New Preston Congregational Church are taken with a long lens (a Leica R 280mm fitted to my Leica M with an adapter and steadied on a car window with a beanbag), which is unusual for me. This is another one of the days when I’ve had difficulty editing down to a single picture in the face of the time pressure to produce this post.

Day 1,647 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 551): Watch repair.

Tags Connecticut, New Pre

Landscape

Friday April 18, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday April 24, 2014

BANTAM CONNECTICUT – This is a muddy, cloudy day with a flat sky and little going on visually. I finally photographed a door on the movie theater in this tiny town.

Day 1,646 of one picture a day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 550): Annabel Lee. Three years ago we were in Shanghai.

Tags Bantam, Connecticut

Landscape Urban

Thursday April 17, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday April 23, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We went to Kinky Boots this evening. Here’s the will call line at the Theatre. Rollicking evening, a birthday celebration for our son, Alexander.

Day 1,645 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 549): Shanghai Hongqiao rail terminal.

Tags Broadway, New York, Spring

Landscape Urban

Wednesday April 16, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – In reviewing last year’s work for “on this day one year ago” I came across an image of a building obscured by a tree (scroll down and you’ll find it in Tuesday’s post). I’ve decided to do some more of these, so here is one from today.

Day 1,644 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day one year ago (day 1,279): Portrait.

Tags Spring, Trees

Landscape Out my window Urban

Tuesday April 15, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Tax day. This is ordinarily a pretty grim day. “The ides of April?” But today was actually visually interesting. A trip to our daughter’s office provided a new angle on the local cityscape; a new lens provided a fairly energetic rainy cityscape out my window, and I got some decent images of our granddaughter.

Day 1,643 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

Francesca's conference room — Francesca’s conference room

On this day one year ago (day 1,278): Building. Obscured by a tree.

Tags 1185 Park Avenue, conference rooms, New York, Victoria