Sunday December 13, 2015

ANTIGUA – Day two in this tropical paradise. I’ve brought a single camera on this trip, my lovely Leica Q with its 28mm fixed lens. A very nice camera but one with a point of view: you’re going to see some wide this week

28mm used to be one of my favorite focal lengths. It still is what it is, but the impact of the point of view has been diluted because the iPhone camera is the equivalent to 28mm so there a a gazillion images out there with the same point of view. Seems more pedestrian than it used to. Still, the Leica Q is an interesting camera.

Day 2250 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2250 0f one photograph every day for the rest of my life
Beachside
Day 2250 0f one photograph every day for the rest of my life
Beachside

Saturday December 12, 2015

ANTIGUA – We left our apartment at a bizarrely early hour today to get on a direct flight to this island paradise, where we are spending a week of R and R, unwinding from some occupational and personal stress in the last three or four months. Not bad. There’s a new air terminal here; it was 17 minutes from being on the tarmac to in a cab on our way to our accommodations. Try that in New York!

I’m traveling light, with only my wonderful Leica Q, which has a very high quality fixed 28mm lens. Of course I’ll be converting to black and white.

I struggle as a photographer in the tropics. Another shot of a palm tree, anyone? How about some nice frothy surf? Anyway, today’s image is a rocking chair.

Dy 2249 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Dy 2249 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Rocker

On this day three years ago (day 1153): Lexington Avenue.

Day 1153 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Facade, Lexington Avenue