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Landscape Street Urban

Wednesday September 7, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – More rain. Really. A lot of rain. I walked around with my Leica and a 90mm lens looking for rain themes. The Leica isn’t billed as being “weatherproof” but it does tolerate the rain, especially if you sheild it with a coat or your body when you’re not shooting. A couple of examples:

Rain
Rain
Exit
Exit

On this day last year: Andy Berkman.

Andy
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Home Landscape

Monday August 29, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – As noted yesterday we rode out tropical storm Irene in Connecticut. It rained 8 inches in a few hours, causing minor erosion damage – but no other problems. Amazingly good luck. Here’s what things looked like post storm. Taken with my Alpa TC and a 35mm Schneider XL lens.

August 28, 2011
Basil surveys Irene damage

On this day last year: Our last day in Nairobi.

An indian pastry shop
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Garden Home

Sunday August 28, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Tropical storm Irene arrived early this morning with more rain than we’ve ever seen before. We had plenty of warning and were well-prepared – we suffered essentially no damage. This was not a bad as a typical winter ice storm. We brought some statues back from Bali years ago – here we’ve laid one on its back so it won’t be blown over. Taken with my Alpa TC and 35mm Schneider Digitar.

August 28, 2011
Ganesh meets Irene

On this date last year: we visit AmericaShare in Nairobi.

AmericaShare
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Landscape Urban

Sunday August 14, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – It poured rain all day. Given the weather we had decided to stay in New York for the weekend. I didn’t get out except to walk the dog. There was no one on the streets of Cargegie Hill, our neighborhood. What do you do on a rainy Sunday? Well I spent the better part of the day updating my website with a slightly new look and much better and more flexible software.

I took my Leica out while walking the dog. The camera is a 1954 design and weather sealed cameras weren’t in the picture then (modern high end designs from Nikon and Canon are completely weather proof – I’ve taken them into the shower to clean them off after they were splashed with ocean spray). But the machining tolerances on the Leica are very tight so it’s sort of weather resistant, but you have to use common sense.

A shot a bunch of rainswept streets and a few pedestrians with umbrellas. The best of a fairly poor lot was of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Here’w what I said about it on November 24, 2010:

This building was originally built as a residence for George F. Baker Jr. by Delano & Aldrich, the firm that became the ‘society architects” in New York after Stanford White’s murder in 1906. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia is a splinter of the Russian Orthodox Church formed after the Bolshevik Revolution – it is now reconciled with the main body of the Russian Church.

Taken with my Leica M9 and a 50mm Summilux lens. Two frames stitched in Photoshop.

Rainy day
Rainy day

On this day one year ago: Water skiing on Lake Waramaug.

Lake Waramaug
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Garden Landscape

Saturday May 28, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Back in Connecticut with my Hasselblad an the rain. This is one of my favorite images of the season.

Rain
Rain

The image below proves that dandelions aren’t the only flowers that we have. Nine images focus stacked in Helicon Focus.

Wildflowers
Wildflowers

On this day one year ago: Maria, one year younger.

Maria
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Landscape Urban

Friday May 20, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Have I mentioned the weather lately? I’m sort of a puffy clouds in a blue sky kind of guy. There hasn’t been much of that around here lately. We’ve had a storm system settle down on top of us, like a mother-in-law coming to visit for a couple of days but staying for a month. This was taken on Third Avenue with my Leica M9 and a 135mm APO Telyt.

Rain, rain go away
Rain, rain go away

On this day last year: View from poker game venue.

New York Financial District at Night
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Landscape Out my window Urban

Monday May 16, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m writing this about a week after I took the picture for May 16. The one week delay in posting gives me a chance to sort through images hopefully making an non-rushed decision on what to post. The scene out my window was the same as it was then and has been unchanged all month. We’ve had the rainiest May in memory. It’s as if the weather system has its coasts mixed up – you might expect this in Seattle but not here. This is three frames stitched with my Leica M9 and 135mm APO Telyt.

Rooftops in the fog
Rooftops in the fog

On this day one year ago: farm stand.

Farmstand
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