Category: Events and holidays

Sunday June 24, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday July 4, 2012

MUOTTAS MURAGL – So it looks like I hit some random keys on the computer. Romansh is spoken by fewer than 1% of the Swiss population – most of them here in the Engadine. It has some pretty remarkable spellings. Amazingly our guide, Ken, can get along in it.

We stopped at a hiker’s hut called Schaftsburg and found an oompah band and a party in progress with other guests dancing a conga line. This has to be lived to be believed. People are drinking a concoction called Jagertee. All images with my Leica M9 and 24mm Summilux, which is continuing to be my most used lens.

On this day one year ago: The Guggenheim.

Tags Dance, Switzerland

Events and holidays Family and friends

Saturday June 16, 2012 (Fathers Day)

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday June 24, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Yes, it’s Fathers Day. Originally conceived of as a way for greeting card publishers to scam the public I’ve taken on the task of marketing my family on the concept that Fathers Day is the most important holiday on the calendar. Our adult (really) children organized lunch at Balthazar. Maria and Francesca were the first to arrive. Here they are taken with my Sony Nex-7 and Leica 24mm Summilux lens.

On this day last year: Rest stop. Pretty cool image, actually.

Tags Francesca, Maria Campbell

Events and holidays Family and friends

Tuesday June 5, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday June 11, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Mary Karr read and sang at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre tonight – the performance was called “Kin”, the title of the CD of her songs written with Rodney Crowell. We showed up there with a bunch of publishing worthies and country and western royalty. A sensational evening. Shot with my Sony Nex-7 and Leica 35mm Summilux lens. (The blond woman by the way isn’t Mary Karr.)

On this day one year ago: Kent Congregational Church.

Tags Publishing

Events and holidays Family and friends

Monday June 4, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday June 11, 2012

BROOKLYN NEW YORK – My friend and Yale classmate Ted Shen held a reception at his house in Brooklyn Heights for photographer David Michalek. It was a brilliant afternoon (actually overcast – I’m referring to the people). I used the opportunity to walk 30 yards to the Esplanade and capture an images of the Wall Street skyline to use as a banner for my blog. All images taken with my Sony Nex-7 camera and a 35mm Leica Summilux lens.

On this day one year ago: Cornwall Bridge Church.

St. Bridget Church, Cornwall Bridge Connecticut

Tags Brooklyn, Photography

Events and holidays Portrait

Wednesday May 30, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday June 9, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We went to a reading and book signing at the Barnes & Noble on 86th Street by our old friend Joe Kanon. Joe is a novelist who has written a series of books set in various places but all set in 1944-46, a period of great transitions. His books have been set in Los Alamos, Venice, Berlin, Hollywood, and in the latest Istanbul. Here’s a picture of Joe taken with my Leica and 50mm Summilux.

On this day one year ago: New Preston Congregational Church.

Tags Publishing

Events and holidays Landscape

Monday May 7, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday May 16, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m really liking the results that I’m getting from the Noctilux and the LeiCA M9. Life is good. I took a walk in the financial district in the morning, went to a rehearsal of the James Beard Foundation awards in the afternoon, and to the awards and a gala in the evening. I’m posting a mini-gallery of the day.

On this day one year ago: This again. I’m so embarrassed. I took the same picture on April 15 this year. Spring is running three weeks early in 2012.

Tags James Beard Foundation, Manhattan, New York

Events and holidays Food and wine Landscape Urban

Friday May 4, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday May 13, 2012

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I got a new lens today. A Leica Noctilux – affectionately known as a “Nocti”. Further evidence of my infatuation with exotic gear. The Nocti has been backordered for a year or more. At f.95 it’s the fastest still camera lens around. Big and heavy. The point of this lens is to shoot it wide open so I also bought a neutral density filter which permits shooting at f.95 in daylight. I clamped the Nocti onto my Sony Nex-7 and took a walk up Broadway. The focusing with the Nex-7 was a little disappointing. F.95 demands very accurate focus and the Nex didn’t deliver – only about half of the images from the day were technically good. Here is a sampling.

I ended up at the James Beard Foundation Media Awards:

On this day one year ago: Rain.

Tags Broadway, Fund raisers, James Beard Foundation, Manhattan, Noctilux