WARREN CONNECTICUT – I love it when in mostly cloudy weather clear patches illuminate bits of the Connecticut countryside. Here’s an example. It lasted for a few seconds. I was lucky to capture it with my Leica and a 90mm Elmarit lens. One of my best landscapes of the year.
On this day last year: Blizzard redux.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our children are starting to disperse. Here’s an iPhone shot of Thilo, Francesca’s boyfriend, and Jemima Kirke’s portrait of Francesca (which we’re about to take off to the framer).
On this day one year ago: Boxing Day Blizzard.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Boxing Day. Curiously I shot the same subject one year ago. This time I selected a different angle and camera, my Alpa Max with a short-mount 120 mm Schneider lens and a tilt adapter. Tilting is a view camera feature that is available for longer Alpa lenses. It permits tilting the lens and thus the focus plane, to either extend or shorten apparent depth of field. Here I have used it to keep the top of the sundial and the wall and the trees in the background in focus. It can be a tedious iterative process to get focus right with this technique; there are rules of thumb that help; there’s also an iPhone app that gives you a very good starting point. What I don’t like about this image is a mental mistake on my part: cutting off the bottom of the sundial.
On this day last year: Sundial.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Christmas Day. I went out with my Alpa TC today to capture some winter landscape.
On this day one year ago: Maria scores a Pucci.
