Month: December 2011

Saturday December 17, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday December 24, 2011
2 Comments on Saturday December 17, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I was sick last night. Nausea, throwing up, the works. Major GI stuff. Food poisoning or a stomach flu. It continued through the day today. I mistakenly left my iPhone in the City and only have my Alpa with me. I really don’t have what it takes to go out and photograph landscape. So I set it up in the bathroom and captured myself in the steam shower. Then back to bed. I foodie friend, Jason Wright, was good enough to put the finishing touches on prep for the dinner party tonight, which I slept through.

On this day last year: Out my window with the Hasselblad.

Friday December 16, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday December 23, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I had lunch at the Barking Dog Cafe. A burger at the bar and a glass of IPA. The beer turned out to be a mistake – it predictably brought on an overwhelming need to nap. Anyway in the morning I got some work done and in the PM I did all of the prep work for a dinner party for 11 that we’re having in Connecticut on Saturday night.

Anyway here are the iPhone stills from the Barking Dog. One grunged up and the other modified with an app called Percolator, which overwrites the image with patterns of circles that are straight out of Benoit Mandelbrot.

On this day one year ago: musicians at the Union Club.

Tags Restaurant

Family and friends Work

Thursday December 15, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday December 22, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – There’s a lot going on in the iPhone photo world. Here for example is a site that does an iPhoto every day and reviews apps and the like: the modern iphotographer. Really useful source on apps. I’m sitting here looking at my iPhone 4G. It’s got 13 camera apps. Most cost $1.99. Or less. I’ve sorted out six post processing apps that I like or at least wish that I could master, and six photo information apps that I use when I’m shooting other cameras. This is fun, sort of productive and a real eye-opener. You’ll see a lot more of these over the next few weeks.

This one is an iPhone video still taken at a lunch meeting and processed with PhotoWizard that let me do the center focus thing and grunge it up a bit. there are lots and lots of photo grunge apps. Evidently everyone wants to be a hipster. I can move my visual self to Bushwick without actually having to move there. Cool.

On this day one year ago: Waldorf Astoria.

Tags Debevoise

Landscape Urban

Wednesday November 14, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday December 21, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back on the street with my Alpa TC, 80 meg medium format back and Schneider lens. This is from an alley behind our building.

On this day last year: Self portrait.

Tags 1185 Park Avenue

Events and holidays Family and friends

Tuesday December 13, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday December 20, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We entertained some Dutch friends in our kitchen. Captured with my Ricoh.

Christmas party at the Knick. Hmmm . . . . We’re doing the same things every year. With the same people. They’re not getting any younger. I sense an issue here. Memo to self: hang with younger people at edgier venues.

Tags Dinner party

Events and holidays Family and friends

Monday December 12, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday December 18, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – It’s party season. Here we are at one of many annual holiday parties, this one at the Knickerbocker Club. The 2010 Knick party was my subject for December 13 last year. Taken with my Ricoh – the party animal.

On this day one year ago: torrential freezing rain.

Tags Parties

Landscape Small town

Sunday December 11, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday December 18, 2011

TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT – Back to Torrington for the Center Congregational Church. This is an oddity – the only stone Gothic revival Congregational Church that I’ve seen I’m my travels in this part of the state. Here it is. Two frames taken with my Alpa Max and cropped to fit the form factor of the church. Torrington by the way was the birthplace of John Brown, the radical abolutionist who merits a line in the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

On this day one year ago: Union Savings Bank.

Tags Church, Congregational Church, Litchfield County