Tag: Sculpture

Wednesday April 25, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday May 1, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’ve been thinking about what it is to photograph landscape (whether urban or otherwise). Let me describe the experience. There comes a moment when you physically experience some remarkable aspect of the light. For me the world seems to grow quiet and I work without thinking, intuitively. Time seems suspended. I reach this state of mind on those rare occasions when the light is very special and combines with the scenery in front of me to create a heightened sense of reality. It’s good to have a camera in hand when this happens. I’m not wildly successful seeking these moments out with a tripod.

there was one of those moments this morning in the space between the Seagrams Building and the Racquet and Tennis Club.

Rafael Barrios sculpture “Acrobatic”.

More of the same:

Seagrams Building lobby:

On this day last year: Forsythia in the shape of Italy.

Tags Manhattan, Park Avenue, Racquet and Tennis Club, Sculpture, Seagrams Building

Garden Landscape Religion

Sunday March 25, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday April 4, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – The Garuda again. This time a portrait. An ugly little guy. Taken with my alpa max and a 120mm Schneider lens, with about 6 degrees of tilt.

On this day one year ago: Marine Corps benefit.

Tags Connecticut, Litchfield County, Sculpture, Warren

Garden Small town

Sunday January 29, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday February 6, 2012

KENT CONNECTICUT – I dropped by to see my friend Greg at RT Facts here, picking up a side table and a fixed stand for our fire pit. Greg is an antique dealer specializing in architectural debris, much of it very large. I got a new camera body: a Sony Nex-7, a very compact little item with 24 megs of resolution from a sensor that’s about 2/3 the size of a standard 35mm frame. The idea is that I would use it with my Leica lenses. (A lot of people think like this – this is why Leica lenses are currently sold out at every dealer in the world.) This is with the Nex-7 and 24mm Summilux lens – these look like they were removed on the demolition of a 1930’s Federal building.

On this day one year ago: Mustique sky – three frames stitched.

Tags Art, Connecticut, Sculpture

Culture Landscape

Wednesday November 9, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday November 15, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pair of Bryan Hunt sculptures, Flume I and Flume II, have been installed on the island on Park Avenue between the Seagrams Building and the Racquet and Tennis Club. The look like gigantic gnarly metal cobras. Here’s one of them, captured with my ever-resent Ricoh GRD !V.

Continuing on the theme of variations on the 24 hour self portrait series here’s one where I sliced the images into 24 slivers, and built a composite with a sliver from the earliest time starting on the left and reading hour by hour as you move to the right.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Park Avenue, Sculpture

Culture Landscape Urban

Thursday April 14, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday April 19, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Walking up Park Avenue late this afternoon I had a chance to spend some time shooting Will Ryman’s Roses with my Leica M9 and a Cosina Voigtlander 16mm lens. (Post updated April 25, 2011)

On this day one year ago: Congregation Shaaray Tefila.

Tags New York, Park Avenue, Sculpture

Culture Family and friends Landscape Urban

Sunday April 10, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday April 16, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Park Avenue is sprouting giant roses installed by sculpture Will Ryman. Here I’m using one as a backdrop for a solitary, struggling tulip. This was captured early evening with my Leica and a 24mm Summilux lens.

Post Park Avenue I had dinner with John Novogrod, an old friend, at an Argentinian restaurant in Alphabet City.

Tags New York, Park Avenue, Sculpture

Culture Icon Landscape Urban

Tuesday April 5, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday April 12, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Well , , , walking down Park Avenue I had a major surprise. In the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building (for me the center of the universe in many ways) someone seems to have deposited a giant yellow teddy bear. I love this thing. It fills my need for monumental odd-ball sculpture in this area, a need that had been frustrated with the passing of Hello Kitty. What we’re seeing here is Urs Fisher’s big yellow teddy bear lamp which is said to have recently sold at Christies for an eight-figure price. This is sufficiently fun that I’ve flaunted my usual rule and included two images.

On this day one year ago: A picture of Cathy Robbins at Quatorze Bis.

Tags Sculpture, Seagrams Building