NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met a friend for lunch at the Racquet Club, got a haircut and then found myself wandering in midtown in good light. First a puzzle, then the answer, then a reflection. All with my Leica M and 28mm PC lens.
On this day last year: Out back.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Walking around midtown today I caught the Metropolitan Club, started by JP Morgan for his Steel Barron clients who were too rough edged for the Union Club.
On this day last year: Maria checks her email.
NEW YORK NEW YORK and BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – Sunrise in New York and sunset in Boston on this very long day. Both shot with my Leica M.
On this day last year: Apex Technical School.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We walked across the Manhattan Bridge from Chinatown to Dumbo today, in search of an image of the bridge on the Brooklyn side with my ICP rephotography class. There was a brief downpour while we were at the center of the bridge – we sought shelter and waited it out. All images with my Leica M and 28mm PC lens.
On this day one year ago: Lunch in Bedford.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Tough day of preparing for meetings next week. Walked around the apartment in the late evening shooting into vases with my iPhone using flash. Here you go:
On this day last year: Fathers Day at Balthazar.
BULLS BRIDGE CONNECTICUT – Here we are on the Appalachian Trail somewhere near Bulls Bridge. I’m continuing my struggle with depicting landscape in the Eastern deciduous forrest. Here’s a color, consciously Cézanne-like, treatment with my Leica M and 28mm PC lens.
On this day one year ago: Flatiron.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent the photo part of my day experimenting with my new 28mm perspective correction lens. (Perspective correction lenses let you shift the lens position so that you can shoot a building for example without tilting the camera up; tilting the camera up results in converging vertical lines.) This lens was made for the Leica R single lens reflex camera. It was made by Schneider for Leica and is Leica-branded. The electronic viewfinder on my Leica M lets me use it with an R mount to M mount adapter (mine is made by Novoflex; Leica makes one but they are backordered everywhere). I spent a good part of the day shooting junk, getting familiar with the lens, which does have a bit of a learning curve.
I suffered a near disaster in producing today’s images. Somehow I lost the files. There was a 22-number gap in my Leica M files that included all of June 14. I looked at every possible way of finding and recovering them (including using a utility that recovers erased files from SD cards). No luck. I’m writing this from Connecticut a week after June 14. It turns out that I moved the files from the camera to my laptop in Connecticut, but later deleted them after I thought that I had transferred them to by desktop setup in New York, but actually hadn’t. I routinely empty my trash because trash photo images actually take up a lot of space. Ugh. But it turns out that my laptop backs up wirelessly in Connecticut and miraculously I was able to recover the missing 22 files with Time Machine. You can’t be too diligent about backing up!
Here’s what I had prepared to post for today when I thought that I had lost the files:
On this day one year ago: More trouble. Ironically one year ago was another day plagued by production problems – I walked around all day with a camera that didn’t have an SD card in it. I noticed the error at 10:30 at night and used the last bit of charge in my iPhone to capture this:
