NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Birthday party for Bunny Beekman at Andrew Solomon’s.
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Saturday May 8, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Well I’m going to have to apologize for this one. Â I’ve said that I never shoot sunsets. Â The problem with them is that they happen every day. Â It’s hard to find an unusual angle or an edgy point of view. Â What am I going to add to the lore of sunsets?
A few years ago an artist friend painted a trompe-l’Å“il sky on the ceiling of our living room in Connecticut. Â We asked for a Tiepolo sky. Â Instead he painted an El Greco – a gray, brooding sky – because that’s what the sky looks like in Connecticut. Â Well the May 8 sunset was pretty much a Tiepolo sky – the light was sensational. Â Shot with a Leica M9 and a 50mm Summilux lens, four exposures stitched together and cropped to a 2×3 aspect ratio. Â I desaturated the blues in Photoshop – they were over the top. Â I’ve pasted a copy of Tiepolo’s Allegory of the Planets and Continents for comparison.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This afternoon I walked over to the Guggenheim Museum to take a look at the new restaurant there, The Wright (get it!). Â The Wright and its architect, Andre Kikoski, won best restaurant design at the James Beard Awards earlier this week. Â Link to James Beard Award winners. I ended up not photographing the restaurant, but caught a detail from the Church of the Heavenly Rest (occasionally referred to as “the church of the overly dressed” referring to its Fifth Avenue location)Â a block north of the museum. Â Image taken with a Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux f1.4 lens. Â I took more details of the Guggenheim – I’ve attached one of the images in a comment.
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Thursday May 6, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – From a sunset walk on the High Line.  Here’s a link for more information about the High Line: Link to High Line site.  Leica M9 and 90mm Elmarit. I’ve changed the image on this page after having second thoughts on the selection of the May 6 image.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A party at Antonio Monda’s for Gay Talese and Michael Cunningham. Â Nan Talese shot with a Nikon D700.
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Tuesday May 4, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A rough day for photography. I spent a very long day at my desk. In the world of daily photographs 365 brilliant images a year might be too much to ask for. Here’s the best I could do.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Rehearsal for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.
