NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took a walk today in the Bryant Park area. This is the relatively new Bank of America Tower, the anchor for new office space development west of Bryant Park. shot with my Alpa TC with 60 meg Hasselblad back and 36mm Schneider APO lens. The building, which is certified green, is in better shape than its tenant.
On this day one year ago: Good morning light out my dining room window.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This evening we spent a couple of hours at a party at ICE (the Institute for Culinary Education) celebrating the publication of Nathan Myrvold’s book Modernist Cuisine. (ICE is the cooking school that was founded by Peter Kump, a close friend of James Beard.) Taken with a Panasonic GH2 with 20mm pancake lens.
On this day one year ago: Chrysler Building from the East Side
DELTA FLIGHT 2137 – I need to get my daily picture done even when I’m doing dumb or boring things like riding in an airplane. I caught sunrise out of my window – which partially redeemed a long flight in a window seat. Taken with my Panasonic GH2 and a 20mm pancake lens.
On this day one year ago: Zion Lutheran Church, New Orleans.
PORTLAND OREGON – We announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Foundation awards here this afternoon. I wasn’t able to photograph much during the day but I was able to catch this late in the day with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.
On this day one year ago: Cafe Beignet New Orleans. We were in New Orleans . . . announcing the 2010 Beard nominees.
PORTLAND OREGON – I made the trek to Portland because the James Beard Foundation is announcing the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards here. I had some free time this morning so a walked around Portland taking snapshots. All are with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.
On this day one year ago: Parkway Bakery and Tavern. Last year we were in New Orleans announcing the James Beard nominees.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A busy day in New York catching up on my day job and getting ready for a quick trip to Portland Oregon. This with my Leica M9 out a window in our apartment.
On this date one year ago: My best “Hello Kitty”. I think that this is one of my best “Hello Kitty” images of the past year but it wasn’t highly rate by the star system.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Out on the street at last, but still with a technical camera. Alpa makes a tiny technical camera, the Alpa TC, that lets me use my Hasselblad 60 meg back and 36mm Schneider lens in a compact, hand-holdable package. Mine looks just like the following image downloaded from the Alpa website.
It’s basically the same form factor, functionality and focal length as the legendary Hasselblad Superwide C (one of my all time favorite cameras), but digital. Very cool. How often have I raved about gear on this blog?
I’m posting two images today from the post office building on Lexington Avenue and 54th Street on an afternoon with brilliant early spring light and the attendant reflections. The first is my image of the day. Again we see how well the files from the Hasselblad back convert to black and white.
I’m posting this one just to show what is possible. I shot this pointing way up with the 36mm lens, which resulted in wildly converging vertical lines. I then corrected the perspective in Lightroom. Extreme perspective corrections are often problematic because they “stretch” pixels resulting in poor resolution. But when you start with a file captured at 60 meg resolution this really isn’t a problem, at least not at web resolution.
On this day last year: Citicorp Center
