Category: Garden

Saturday May 10, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday May 17, 2014

WARREN and WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – We dropped in this evening to see our friend Barbara Robinson and to visit her rain-soaked garden, called Brush Hill. The first image below is looking up in our garden; the is from Barbara’s.

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Day 1,668 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 938): Outside the ICP. Tree frames stitched.

Tags Connecticut, Spring, Trees

Garden Icon Landscape

Tuesday April 29, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Spring is arriving. This is a tough time of year to photograph cityscapes around here. The city is flamboyantly in bloom. The street crud from the winter has been completely cleaned up. It’s hard to take a picture that doesn’t look like a cut in a White Flower Farm catalogue. Tedious. The temptation to shoot big flowering trees is irresistible. I’m fight this by sticking with black and white and using selective focus. Here are some tulips from the Park Avenue mall.

Day 1,657 on one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 196): Chrysler Building with the UN Secretariat Building in the foreground. This was originally in color – I subsequently did a fairly aggressive black and white conversion, which I like much better.

Tags Manhattan, Park Avenue, Spring

Garden Landscape Portrait

Sunday April 27, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday May 3, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT and NEW YORK NEW YORK – A tale of good light and not so good light today. There were 15 minutes of profoundly beautiful light this afternoon in Connecticut. It was fleeting, as the sun dodged in an out of clouds. I shot what was at hand, a large tree, a mundane subject hereabout, with my Leica Luxochron 50mm lens wide open to blur the background. I ended up stitching three frames. Then later in the evening a dinner parter for a friend of long standing (not pictured here). I only shoot with available light which at dinners is often poor for portraiture. Anyway, here you go.

Day 1,655 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 194): Pen Gala.

Tags Connecticut, Trees, Warren

Garden

Saturday April 5, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday April 11, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Hideous time of year in rural Northwestern Connecticut. Spring arrives late every year and this year it’s really late. But . . . heavy ground fog this morning provided some photo opportunities.

Day 1,633 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 534): Big yellow bear. No kidding on this one. This is not photoshop trickery. Urs Fisher’s Big yellow teddy bear lamp was actually installed in the piazza in front of the Seagram building. Three frames stitched.

Urs Fisher's yellow teddy bear lamp — Urs Fisher’s yellow teddy bear lamp

Tags Connecticut, Spring, Warren

Garden

Friday April 4, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday April 10, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I drove up to Connecticut this morning to fetch our dog and catch up with what’s going on here. Not much in the way of Spring. Last year at this time the forsythia were in full bloom. This year: a couple of sad little snow drops pushed through the snow on the ground.

Day 1,632 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 536): 1930s again.

Tags Snow, Spring, Warren

Garden Home

Sunday March 16, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday March 22, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – What looks like snow here is actually a sheet of ice. I wandered around a bit, but not very far, and found this. I’m getting genuinely tired of using “winter” and “Warren” tags.

The second image is a screen shot of my Twitter page showing 10,000 followers, which I celebrated today.

This is day 1,613 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day four years ago (day 152): Cash for your Warhol. This image as originally published was in color (taken with a Leica M9). I’ve reworked it, translating to black and white, which I really prefer for this image. Click through on the link if your interested in the original version.

Tags Warren, Winter

Garden Home Landscape

Saturday September 14. 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday September 23, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect early Autumn day. Visually I thrive in sunlight. Here we go with my Leica M and a 35mm Summilux Asph. lens. I’m taking a short break from the Luxochron.

On this day last year: Happy Birthday Maria.

Tags Connecticut, Grasses, Warren