LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – A farm stand next to my regular hardware store. Still shooting very wide with the digital Leica.
On this day one year ago: Subway entrance.
Saturday November 20, 2010click for more
Saturday November 20, 2010
Friday November 19, 2010click for more
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I’m exploring other daily photo blogs – I’m working on a page of links and critique that I’ll post here when its finished. There actually aren’t many of them. The one I like best is one polaroid a day over an 18 year period, to the photographer’s death. Someone has lovingly scanned and uploaded the 7,000 odd images, and built a very nice flash gallery. Here’s a link: hughcrawford.com. Anyway, I’ve been doing more in Manhattan in the early evening with my ultra-wide 12mm lens:
On this day last year: Telephones at Grand Central shot with the bokeh king.
Thursday November 18, 2010click for more
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I had lunch at Columbia today. This is an Henry Moore sculpture on the bridge that crosses Amsterdam Avenue from the Law School, an otherwise bare and uninviting space. The Moore is actually too small for the site and is located on a spot where there is no reason to walk past it.
On this day one year ago: Boston sunrise.
Wednesday November 17, 2010click for more
NEW LONDON CONNECTICUT VICINITY – So here I am shooting out of windows again, but this time on the Acela train from Boston to New York. This is through the glass with my extreme wide lens shooting one second or so exposures. This is interesting – the clouds are sharp because their relative motion is small – but the foreground is totally lost to motion blur. The tint in the train window gives a slight ghoulish quality to the light. I experimented with these for the four hour ride.
On this day one year ago: Dorchester Avenue, Boston.
Tuesday November 16, 2010click for more
AIRBORNE OVER CONNECTICUT – I made the 6:00 AM shuttle from LaGuardia to Boston. This is unusual because I generally don’t prefer window seats and have a bias against shooting out of windows. This from the air, out the window with my 12 lens on my digital Leica.
On this date a year ago: 919 Third Avenue.
Monday November 15, 2010 click for more
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Feel free to go to one of those other daily photo blogs that you follow if you find that my voice is getting a little whiney. Yes, another week of all day meetings, at least through Wednesday, including a trip to Boston. You may ask “Why doesn’t Woody just quit the damn day job?” Actually I like my day job – it’s just that sometimes it gets in the way of photography – why I like it is beyond the scope of a two paragraph discussion. Today I spent some time shooting going to and from my meetings. Sometimes this is not very productive, but today it was, so I’m posting two images. They are both with my Leica and the 12mm Voigtlander lens – I’m getting more interesting results shooting wide right now. Let me know if you think it’s a gimmick.
Anyway here’s a night shot looking straight up at the facade of the New York Central building (now known as the Helmsley Building) at the foot of the North segment of Park Avenue. Wikipedia entry on the Helmsley Building. The Wikipedia entry is oddly ambiguous on who the architects were. It’s actually Warren & Wetmore, who were also responsible for Grand Central Terminal. Here’s a link to the AIA website.
Finally, patient reader, on this day one year ago: interred in the New Preston CT cemetary.
Sunday November 14, 2010click for more
WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to photograph the Washington Connecticut Congregational Church. There is a large tree in front of it – very close, actually – so it’s hard to get an angle on it even with a very wide lens and a shift capability. I decided to shoot it through the tree once the leaves were off. I did some details of it last year – here’s my entry from November 29, 2010 which includes some historical narrative about the structure. Anyway, this is with my Hasselblad H3d-39:
This is the image from last year:
On this day one year ago: Construction site. In terms of star ratings this is the least popular image ever on this site.
