Woody Campbell – Page 664 – 16 years of one photograph every day for the rest of my life

Wednesday January 8, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Sometimes shooting through the window of a glass curtain wall building works. It takes a little bit of technique to avoid reflections and dirty spots on the glass but sometimes it can be done. Here’s a twofer: the Lipstick Building and the Chrysler Building. This is out the window of my office. Three frames stitched with my Leica Monchrom and 75mm Summicron lens. It’s an accident that I’ve posted two tall skinny pictures within a week of each other.

Day 1,545 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year: Sunset in Santa Monica.

Tuesday January 7, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We have an antique linen pillow case framed over our bed – it’s elaborately embroidered in white on white (actually creme on creme). Its very hard to read, let alone photograph. Today I shot it with an iPhone app called TurboScan that is meant to scan documents. TurboScan shoots in very high contrasts and actually rendered the text, “Sempre Uniti,” which in Italian means “Always United”, a declaration of love.

Day 1,544 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year: Santa Monica Beach.

Monday January 6, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Alexander and I went to a Rangers game. Surprisingly sporting events are not really good venues for me to photograph. There’s not a lot of landscape at a hockey game. So I snapped off a six frame stitch of 30 Rockefeller Plaza on my way walking to Madison Square Garden. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 75mm Summicron lens.

Day 1,543 of one photo a day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year: Haberdasher.

Sunday January 5, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I shot this afternoon with a long lens. This usually doesn’t work for me – I see best with a wide angle in my hands. The lens is a 280mm Leica R with a Leica 2s tele-extender. These are out my window in the early evening. The last image required hand stacking two images to get shadow detail in the brick.

I’ve done a careful recount of total days on this project without a missed day. I’m going to start posting the running total daily. Here you go

Day 1,542 of one photo every day.

On this day one year ago: Santa Monica Pier.

Saturday January 4, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We’ve taken advantage of being in New York on a weekend to go out to dinner with some friends to a local place offering French comfort food. The light’s very low but not bad so portraits all around. Earlier in the day harsh light on the street. Both with my Leica Monocrom and 75mm Summicron lens.

On this day last year: Grating.

Friday January 3, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A busy day with my cameras. We drove back to New York (from Warren) to get Maria to a doctor – she’s had a hacking cough for two weeks now. When I arrived I found that FedEx had delivered two packages, one with my 2x tele-extender for my Leica R 280mm lens (which I can use on my Leica M camera), one of the great long lenses of all time. I also received a 75mm Leica Summicron Asph., which it turns out is a marvelous lens. The first two frames below are Baby V (our granddaughter) taken with my Monochrom and the new 75mm. In the next image I’m experimenting with the quality of the out-of-focus portions of the image (so-called “bokeh”), which is creamy and lovely, a real accomplishment for such a highly corrected lens. Finally a couple of out my windows with the 280mm and 2x tele-extender set up on a tripod. Looks fine but this combination is really fussy in use.

Apologies for the gear talk. What’s more important here is that Baby is making the transition, at just short of two months old, to having a personality. You begin to get a bit of that in the series of pictures below, taken over about a five minutes period.

On this day last year: Lipstick building. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 5cm. Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar from 1945 – this lens rocks.

Thursday January 2. 2014

WARREB CONNECTICUT – Has someone mentioned that its been cold here? I grabbed an image on my way back from picking up a newspaper (I get my news online, Maria reads the paper). This is two frames stitched, taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 Dual Range Summicron lens. Typical Northeastern deciduous forest in typical winter weather. Kind of ho hum.

On this day one year ago: Local Law 10 work.