Category: Garden

Wednesday April 27, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday May 2, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I have better days and worse days. This was one of the better. Sometimes it is enough just to go through your routine day with a camera in hand. It helps that it’s Spring. I met Francesca (our daughter) at J. McLaughlin where she was picking up a birthday present for her fiance, and for a coffee.

the way regular visitors (thanks to all of you) may notice that I’ve changed the galleries to the right. I’ve added a collection pulled together from the Litchfield County Connecticut churches that I’ve been exploring for the last 16 months, and a series of timed exposures taken out of the window of a high speed train in China. Let me know what you think.

These were taken with my Panasonic GH2 and the wonderful 14mm pancake lens

Same setup. I’m using a crop of this as my blog header.

On this day last year: Bill Cohan and Maria at the Pen gala.

Tags 1185 Park Avenue, New York, Shopping, Upper East Side

Garden Landscape

Monday April 25, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday April 30, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re having a vey late spring. My photo from April 24, 2010 shows our pear trees and a bunch of flowering shrubs in bloom. See yesterday’s post. This year we only have forsythia – the earliest of the large flowering shrubs. Here’s a forsythia captured on a rainy Monday morning before I drove back to New York with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.

On this day one year ago: One Rock, at night in the fog.

Tags Connecticut, Spring, Warren

Garden Home Landscape

Saturday April 9, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday April 16, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m getting a little impatient with early spring here – it’s indistinguishable from winter in other parts of the world. Here I’ve taken a picture of a birch and our barns, wonderfully detailed by my Alpa TC, 60 meg Hasselblad back and 36mm Schneider APO digitatar.

On this day one year ago: 94th Street at night.

Tags Trees, Warren

Garden Landscape Urban

Friday April 8, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday April 14, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Still looking for Spring I took a walk today in the Conservatory Garden in Central Park. I actually found Spring here. A quote from Wikipedia:

The Conservatory Garden is the only formal garden in Central Park, New York City. Comprising 6 acres (24,000 m2), it takes its name from a conservatory that stood on the site from 1898 to 1934.,,The park’s head gardener used the glasshouses to harden hardwood cuttings for the park’s plantings. After the conservatory was torn down, the garden was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, landscape architect for Robert Moses, with planting plans by M. Betty Sprout;[2] constructed and planted by WPA workers, it was opened to the public in 1937. . . . After the Second World War the garden had become neglected, and by the 1970s a wasteland. It was restored and partially replanted under the direction of horticulturist and urban landscape designer Lynden Miller, to reopen in June 1987. . . . The high-style mixed planting was the first to bring estate garden style to urban parks, part of the general renewal of Central Park under Elizabeth Barlow Rogers of the Central Park Conservancy.

This taken with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens. I’ve used a crop of it for my banner.

On this day last year: Hydrangias.

Tags Central Park, Manhattan, New York

Garden Landscape

Sunday April 3, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday April 9, 2011

WAREN CONNECTICUT – Here we are in Warren doing the same thing that I often do in Manhattan: look up. We get a structural view of the deciduous canopy. In the summer the leaves almost totally obscure the sky. I’ll take more of these as the trees leaf out. Taken with my Alpa TC, 60 meg Hasselblad back and my 36mm Schneider APO lens.

On this day one year ago: Forsythia. This winter was much worse than last. The Forsythia are no where near blooming.

Tags Connecticut, Trees

Culture Garden Landscape Urban

Tuesday February 8, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday February 16, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Weird. You take a month’s break from visiting a place, you come back, and it’s entirely changed. Tom Sachs’s sculpture, Hello Kitty, has been in the courtyard of Lever House for longer than I’ve been photographing for this blog. Now it’s gone, so it’s “bye bye Hollo Kitty”. Here are some links to some earlier Hello Kitty photographs: July 6, 2010, May 11, 2010, April 20, 2010, and March 19, 2010

I guess I really like Hello Kitty. The little gold doodad that replaced Hello Kitty appears to be a part of a much larger installation by Rachel Feinstein entitled “The Snow Queen”. Photographed with my Leica M9 and a 28mm Summicron lens.

On this day last year: an infrared image including the Racquet and Tennis Club, the Seagrams Building and One Park Avenue Plaza.

Racquet and Tennis Clup — Racquet and Tennis Club

Tags Hello Kitty, Lever House, New York, Park Avenue

Garden Landscape

Sunday December 26, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday December 30, 2010

WARREN CONNECTICUT – The leading edge of the Boxing Day blizzard. We stocked up on food in the morning on the theory that the blizzard would leave us snow bound for a couple of days, which turned out to be the case. Here’s an image from the early hours of the storm, taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a tilt shift adapter that permits view camera-like movements, that I’ve used here to enhance the shallow depth of field. The image is in color but the weather froze the color out of the landscape.

On this day one year ago: San Miguel de Allende.

Tags Connecticut, Storm, Winter