WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our house in Warren in good backlighting. Taken with my Leica Monochrom. The fishing aspect of photography. I’ve been on this spot thousands of times but I’ve never seen this before. Two frames stitched.
On this day last year: Chair transformed by good light and my Noctilux lens.
WARRN CONNECTICUT – Fog. Lots of it. It’s atmospheric and it simplifies composition, muting backgrounds. It’s a pretty common phenomenon here in Warren. We’re on a hilltop that seems to be a fog magnet. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summichron lens.
On this day one year ago: Yawn. A water tank. Whoopee. In New York. Imagine that. An example of why I shouldn’t shoot color. I find the mixed lighting here very unattractive.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – This morning we visited Alexander and Laura’s new apartment. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 24mm Summilux lens.
On this day last year: ICP. Two frames stitched.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Out with my iPhone today before the Opera (a life changer of a performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites – I’m still under its spell as I write this several days later). The Lincoln Center fountain and the facade of the Dakota.
On this day last year: Lincoln Center. Three years in a row at Lincoln Center on this date.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Bruisingly busy day. Snapped a few iPhones around the house. The iPhone photo app that I’ve settled on is KitCam, where I’ve adopted a square format, a faux tilt tool, and frame lines that look like a Hasselblad film camera’s (the app calls it “Victor”).
On this day last year: Japanese maple. At Lever House.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went to B&H to return the lens that I shot but didn’t like yesterday. and then walked from 34th street down to a dinner in Tribeca. Kind of semi-clear light that didn’t spark my imagination – remember that most of the stuff on the blog is urban landscape, but still landscape so it’s highly dependent on interesting light that doesn’t necessarily show up on my daily shooting schedule. Another effing church, the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea. Shot with my Leica Monochrom camera and a 24mm Summilux lens.
On this day last year: Citscape through my Noctilux. World Trade Center II.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m looking for a tilt shift solution for my Leica M. So I bought a Nikon 24mm tilt shift and a Nikon to Leica adapter from B&H (which has a no questions asked returns policy) to give it a try.. Nice lens, but focusing with the Leica electronic view finder is plausible but not great. So I returned the lens and adapter to B&H – I’ll repurchase something along those lines if Leica ever does a firmware upgrade to improve the functionality of the EVF. Here’s an images that uses the tilt capacity to extend the focus range on the runner on our dining room table.
On this day last year: Landscape with the Nocti. Birches! Ugh. Stop it, Woody.
