WARREN CONNECTICUT – On New Years day we set up a backdrop and put scrim jims in front of a couple of windows to shoot portraits with the Hasselblad. Here are Francesca, Jeremy and Virgil. We’re coming to the end of the longest period that we’ve stayed in our Connecticut house since we’ve owned it.
On this day last year: Still at the Beekmans’.
WARREN and DABURY CONNECTICUT – I’ve got a couple of images for New Years Eve. We had an excellent sunset, followed by a costume party given by our friends Bill and Bunny Beekman. The sunset is three frames stitched taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 100mm lens.
Maria went dressed as a nun Here she is in character, taken with my Panasonic GF-1 and a 14mm pancake lens. This is genuinely scary.
Finally, New Years greetings from me, with Francesca.
On this day one year ago: Guess what? A New Year’s Eve party at the Beekmans.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I took my Leica M9 out today with a wide lens (24mm Summilux) looking for wind-carved snow in fading, oblique light. I was pleased with what I was seeing and enjoyed take the images, but on reviewing the images none jumped out at me. Perhaps this is a worn-out subject (at least through my eyes).
We had dinner with some friends at Winvian, a nearby inn. A woman at the next table turned out to have a food blog. She included a reference to me – an odd experience for someone who avoids the limelight – in her entry on Winvian. Here’s a link: It’s All Fare.
Anyway here’s wind-carved snow:
On this day one year ago: Luke Tanner’s cornfield.
WARREN CONNECTICUT. More winter. This was a strange storm – the high winds actually stripped the snow off of the landscape and deposited it behind whatever obstructions got in the way. So the landscape consists mainly of windswept fields. Here’s an example taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and the HTS 1.5 tilt shift adapter with an HCD 28 lens. Here I’ve used a tilt to exaggerate the out of focus aspects of the image
On this day last year: Salem Covenant Church, Washington Connecticut.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – A quiet day in the snow-covered countryside. This with my Hasselblad H4D-60.
On this date one year ago: Out my office window in lovely light.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Toward the end of the day the sky has began to clear, but if anything the wind has increased. The gusts must be 60 or 70 miles per hour. It’s freezing cold. I ended up shooting with my Hasselblad and using the car as a tripod, shooting out the car window using a beanbag as a support. Here’s a windswept field.
On this day one year ago: Travel day – Francesca at Dallas Fort Worth Airport. Another personal favorite from the past year.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – The leading edge of the Boxing Day blizzard. We stocked up on food in the morning on the theory that the blizzard would leave us snow bound for a couple of days, which turned out to be the case. Here’s an image from the early hours of the storm, taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a tilt shift adapter that permits view camera-like movements, that I’ve used here to enhance the shallow depth of field. The image is in color but the weather froze the color out of the landscape.
On this day one year ago: San Miguel de Allende.
