Tag: Warren

Saturday March 3, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday March 9, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – A scary moment. I took my pictures for the day and this evening uploaded them to my computer, imported them to Lightroom, put the CF card back in the camera and formatted it, sorted through the files; cleaned a couple of items up on the computer and deleted the trash to free up disc space. After dinner and a movie I returned to the computer to make a selection for the day, and found out that I had accidentally deleted the files. They were gone. Period. Too late to take another March 3 picture. What to do? Write a post that says “no picture today because the dog ate my homework?” Ruin a perfect record now 30 months or so long?

After puzzling over alternatives for a bit I realized that I had enabled automatic Time Machine backups from the laptop to this little white Apple box hidden under my desk. I opened Time Machine, paged back a couple of pages, and there they were. Lesson: even seasoned veterans can make stupid mistakes. Automatic backups are a very good idea.

Anyway, here is one of the recovered files taken with my Alpa TC, 35mm Schneider lens and Phase One IQ 180 back.

On this day last year: Tree on West 12th Street.

Tags Connecticut, Snow, Warren, Winter

Landscape

Sunday February 26. 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I took a break from organizing AV on this very, very cold and clear day, capturing sunrise across a cornfield at the bottom of the valley that defines our view, and a rambling house that was an inn 80 years ago. Taken with my Nex-7 and 50mm Leica Summilux lens.

On this day last year: New Milford.

Tags Connecticut, Farms, Litchfield County, Warren

Food and wine Landscape Small town

Saturday February 25, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday March 1, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Woke up with a headache and general fuzziness. Not a supper interesting day from a visual standpoint with a high, overcast flat sky so I spend most of the day in the house laying out a new AV setup. When I took my Sony Nex-7 and a 50mm Leica Summilux to the fish trailer on 202 to buy dinner the sun cooperated with a brief breakthrough.

On this day last year: Statue of Liberty in amazing light.

Tags Shopping, Warren

Landscape

Sunday February 12, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday February 17, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I took a drive this morning in the good morning light in a random direction. I ended up at the Hopkins Vineyard, nice people at a lovely site who not surprisingly make not so great wines (the climate here is closer to Greenland than Bordeaux). I carried my Nex-7 and a variety of Leica lenses. These images are taken with the Leica 90 mm Elmarit. The second image is three frames stitched.

On this day last year: A lot of snow. Told you so.

Tags Connecticut, Vineyard, Vineyards, Warren

Landscape

Saturday February 11, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday February 17, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We had a very light snow here. Very light indeed. About a quarter on an inch. 6 mm. The last big storm was the freak blizzard in October. I captured it in process with my Son Nex-7 and a Leica 90 mm Elmarit lens. Compare and contrast with last year – a Connecticut winter shot from 2011 will be last year’s picture tomorrow.

23rd Street.

Tags Connecticut, Snow, Warren, Winter

Home Landscape

Saturday February 4, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday February 10, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Still working the kinks out of the Nex-7. I spent the morning shooting familiar things in Connecticut, including a small barn on our property that I use as an informal resolution test. Here I’m shooting it with the 24mm Sony Zeiss lens, which produces a superb result (at least in terms of image quality).

On this day last year: Warren at night.

Tags Barns, Connecticut, Warren

Landscape

Saturday January 28, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday February 4, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I had a chance to try out my new Sony Nex-7 camera. This is a very compact body offering 24 megs of resolution with a sensor that’s about 2/3 the size of a 35mm frame. The crop factor is 1.5x – in other words a 24mm lens becomes the equivalent of a 36mm. It’s possible to use my Leica lenses on the camera (with an adapter). Here’s an image with the Nex-7 and my 90mm Leica Elmarit lens.

On this day one year ago: a friend on Macaroni Beach.

I edited this post on February 8, 2012.

Tags Connecticut, Warren, Winter