Category: Food and wine

Tuesday January 17, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday January 23, 2012

NAPLES FLORIDA – In a break from meetings I ran into a friend having lunch at a casual bar on the beach. He posed as I photographed him with my iPhone. But this presents a dilemma. This guy is pretty prominent in the world that I work in; when he posed he didn’t realize this was destined for the web; I don’t necessarily want to “out” him as having fun in the middle of the day. How to handle it? Well here’s one idea: There’s an app for the iPhone that converts an image into tiles. At tile resolution he’s not recognizable:

Another sunset. This does happen every day so I’m generally against shooting sunsets (same category as pets and cute kids). It was really, really clear and occasionally when the sun sets toward the sea and it’s very clear you see a brief green flash. I’ve actually seen it once from Basil’s Bar in Mustique. So I set up to catch it but alas it didn’t happen. Here’s the sun where there would have been a green flash had it happened.

On this day one year ago: humongous ice-sicle.

Tags Florida

Food and wine Landscape Small town

Saturday January 14, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday January 21, 2012

KENT CONNECTICUT – I’m getting back on my game in Connecticut. I took my Alpa Max out with a tripod on a field trip to Kent Connecticut where I stopped at a remarkable chocolate shop called Belgique. Do click through the link – the site is over the top. So Belgique is closed today – evidently on vacation to rest after the holiday rush. Taken with the Max, a 72mm Schneider lens and my Phase One IQ 180 back.

On this day one year ago: Lexus of Manhattan.

Tags Kent

Food and wine

Friday January 6, 2012

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday January 12, 2012

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Well here we are in Connecticut a day earlier that usual. Blah light on the landscape end of things. The secret of great landscape photography is to be there ready to shoot when the light is brilliant, novel or moving and shoot whatever is at hand; otherwise keep your camera in the bag. This was a camera in bag day. So I shot dinner (risotto all a Milanese) made with a goose stock left over from Christmas – very rich and satisfying). Shot with my iPhone.

On this day one year ago: four images of the Chrysler building in sensational light.

Tags Risotto alla Milanese

Food and wine Landscape Street

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

Food and wine Street

Monday December 5, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday December 11, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – So I spent part of the day walking around with my iPhone in video mode. I isolated stills from the video using a “frame grabber” app on the iPhone. Here’s an example from the Shake Shack on 86th Street.

On this day one year ago: Statue in our garden.

A better print:

Tags Restaurant

Food and wine

Friday December 2, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday December 8, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still working with my iPhone. Here’s a still life from the kitchen.

On this day one year ago: dinner party.

Tags Still life

Events and holidays Family and friends Food and wine

Thursday November 24, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday November 30, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Thanksgiving day. This (apart from Father’s day which is the most important day on the calendar) is my favorite holiday. It’s not commercialized. there is little or no guilt associated with it. There’s a lot of food, which in my mind is a good thing.

The downside of this holiday in our family is that I’m the most competent cook, so meal preparation tends to fall on me. By the time we sit down on Thanksgiving afternoon my eyes are crossing; I’ve got band-aids covering self-inflicted nicks, and tastings along the way have fully satisfied any cravings for turkey that I may have had. In reviewing past years’ work I have confirmed that Thanksgiving is not a auspicious day for photography for me. This year i produced a totally (and purposefully) out of focus image with my Ricoh GRD IV.

On this day one year ago: Venini vases.

Tags Thanksgiving