Month: July 2010

Saturday July 10, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday July 10, 2010

ANCRAMDALE, NEW YORK – We drove over to Columbia County in New York for dinner with some friends. Here is the Ancramdale Presbyterian Church. It’s a bit odd with the steeple lacking the actual steeple. The town history says that the church was built in 1847 but there are no other details. Ancram history.

Tidbits from the town website: “The name was derived from the Livingston homestead in Anchoram, Scotland. Robert Livingston, first Lord of the Manor was the son of a Scotch clergyman, born in Anchoram, Scotland in 1654. The town comprises 27,000 of the total 160,000 acres the Livingston family had held from the initial grant by the English Crown in 1686. Philip Livingston, grandson of Robert, founded the first iron works in 1743, the only one of its kind on the banks of the Roeliff Jansen Kill and in the NY Colony.”

Hasselblad H3d 39.

Tags Church, Upstate New York

Landscape Street

Friday July 9, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday July 9, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In the late afternoon I took a walk Riverside Boulevard, the extension of Riverside Drive south from 72nd Street. The street may actually be called Trump Place between 66th Street and 70th Street. I was attracted by an article in the New York Times to the effect that the American Institute of Architects has designated the buildings along here as the 6th ugliest buildings in New York. What I found is that the southern extension of Riverside Park is now mostly completed, and is sensational. I’ll be back there. But for today the entrance to one of the buildings, 100 Riverside Boulevard, not one of the Trump buildings.

Hasselblad H3D 39.

Tags Parks, Riverside Park

Street Transportation

Thursday July 8, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday July 8, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Getting off the subway on the way to a movie, I Am Love. According to the New Yorker this film is in “limited release”. After seeing it I can certainly understand why.

Leica M9 with 28mm Summilux.

Tags New York, Subway

Street

Wednesday July 7, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday July 7, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – It’s possible to walk most of the way around Manhattan on the water. This is a relatively recent development = there are gaps (for example on the East side in the 50s) but construction continues. To an important extent this relieves the sense the Manhattan is cut off from the water by major highways (the Westside Highway and the FDR Drive). Anyway, here we are on the East River in the 60s.

Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux lens.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Upper East Side

Icon Landscape Urban

Tuesday July 6, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A truly beastly day. We’re suffering under a record heat wave in the Northeast. I sought refuge in the shade of the plaza of Lever House and shot passers by against the backdrop of Hello Kitty. Not a good day to be outdoors.

Leica M9 with 28mm Summicon lens.

Tags Lever House, New York, Park Avenue, Urban

Landscape Small town

Monday July 5, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday July 5, 2010

NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – I decided to drive back to New York early. The light in New Milford was interesting so I stopped to photograph. One of the grandest buildings on the green of this slightly troubled town is the Lillis Funeral Home. Here’s a link to the iMortuary entry for Lillis: Lillis Funeral Home.

The Lillis’s are evidently a prominent New Milford family. A Google search identifies a Deputy Chief of Police named Lillis; the town has a Lillis Road; the school board was housed in the Lillis Building which is now apparently abandoned.

I’m going to go out of my way to collect mortuaries over the next few months.

Hssselblad H3d 39 with 35-90mm lens.

Tags Connecticut, Mortuary, New Milford

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Sunday July 4, 2010

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well here I am in Warren for the Fourth of July. A quick personal inventory: Maria, my wife, is in Capri at a literary festival (no kidding); our son, Alexander is in Puerto Rico on vacation proposing to his girlfriend (she said “yes” so she’s now his fiance); our daughter is in Southampton with an old friend of hers. So I’m here by myself doing the lonely guy thing. After the excitement of Ecuador this seems dull. I picked up a different camera hoping for inspiration – not much came of it.

Hasselblad H3D 39 with 35 – 90mm lens.

Tags Connecticut, Warren