New York – Page 41 – Woody Campbell

Monday January 5, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Here is another exercise in looking up. Neither my best nor my worst. Typical nice winter light on Park Avenue. I’ve decided to give my 28mm Summicron lens a little bit of exercise. It’s a bit too wide for this style of shooting which depends on stitching multiple images to achieve large-format resolution; this type of image has very little impact if it’s small.

Day 1,908 of one photo a day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 1,178): Santa Monica Pier. A harmless exercise in street art.

Saturday December 18, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m actually writing this on Christmas day – remember that I post with about a week’s delay to give me some breathing room for editing. I found a number of good images today but only one of them, the facade of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, is even vaguely Christmas-oriented so I’ll lead with the Waldorf. There was odd (for here) diffuse rather Flemish-looking sunlight today which gave familiar sights softer features.

Day 1,890 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 1,891): Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church from the second floor of the Fendi shop across the street.

Wednesday December 17, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another gray day with flat light and bright sky. Ugh. Not a good environment for cityscapes. I plod onward.

Day 1,889 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 1,159): Grumpy Santa. Kinda says it all. I’ve done a tighter crop of this for my twitter feed.

Tuesday December 16, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – My daily peregrinations took me past a building on 72nd Street that has been converted to a movie set. Here’s what it looked like.

Day 1,888 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day five years ago (day 62): Abstraction. Shot in infrared.

Monday December 15, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Here’s one of my favorite views of New York at one of my favorite times of day to photograph.

Day 1,887 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day five years ago )day 61): Brooklyn.

Friday December 12, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went out and about today with one of my miracle lenses, a Carl Zeiss 15mm Distagon. This is truly wide and free of linear distortion, and free of optical artifacts and other junk corner to corner. But of course it’s extremely hard to control the images and its really important to keep it level. Here are a couple of ideas with it.

Day 1,884 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 423): Freezing rain.

Tuesday December 9, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – If you’ve been following this site for a while you may have noticed that I’ve made some minor changes. We’ve made pictures a bit small to speed page loading, and have generally made the site more robust. Keeping this thing going is surprisingly similar to a job.

Day 1,881 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.