NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pedestrian “look up” and some pedestrian pedestrians. I’m cycling through lens choices for my Leica Monochrom, preparing myself mentally for a trip to Basque country in Spain in a week or so.
Day 1,749 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 653): Dhow, Lamu. Taken with my Phase One IQ 180 (subsequently sold because I get better results overall with my Leica Monochrom).
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Not a whole lot going on here to day. I hit the street with my camera and tried to generate some excitement, without much success.
Day 1,748 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four three years ago (day 652): Lamu, converted from the original to black and white. Lamu was relatively safe three years ago but it’s in a bad neighborhood (15 miles or so from Somalia). Really a shame.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent some time today exploring an old haunt – the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building. I never tire of this.
Day 1,747 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,,443): Peter.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting really, really wide with my 15mm Zeiss lens on my Leica Monochrom. Today I was in Union Square shopping in the greenmarket for groceries for a dinner party. The picture below was the best of a poor lot for the day. Another square crop (planned that way in shooting) to get rid of a too-large foreground. It looks “meh” to me but has actually been quite popular on my Twitter feed. I guess I got it wrong on the editing end.
Day 1,730 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,000): District of Columbia.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More familiar territory with the ultra wide 15mm Zeiss lens on my Leica MM. This lens continues to interest me, but I am looking forward to the end of the week that I’ve committed to keep it on my camera. I reshot Citicorp this morning and 1185 Park Avenue this afternoon. The lens let me shoot all of 1185 without stitching (a reshoot of June 30, 2014). I had to point up a bit, however, to get the top of the building, which meant that I had to correct sharply converging vertical lines in Photoshop. The resulting “stretching” of the top of the image magnified the Zeiss 15’s very slight “mustache” distortion to the point where it is visible, especially in the upper right corner of the image. I really have to shoot level with this lens.
Day 1,729 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,364): Venice Biennale.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More ultra wide work in familiar settings.
Day 1,728 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 267): 100 Riverside Boulevard.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More work with the really wide lens, this time on Park Avenue in the 50s. For the first image below I shot level in portrait orientation and cropped the foreground out, resulting in a square format. This is a common technique shooting very wide – the need to level almost always results in too much foreground. I grew up shooting 2 ¼ inch square so this isn’t a burden for me – I tend to see in squares anyway. I shot the same tree looking up a bit and it was much less successful at every level. The commonplace look up and view of GCT demonstrate this lens’s lovely rendering.
Day 1,727 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (997): Alexander, at our weekly Sunday family dinner.
