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Monday November 10, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday November 17, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Familiar ground today: the Empire State Building. I’ve been following it for years as one of the icons that I fuss with. Of course the challenge is adding anything to the state of the art and mankind’s understand given that there are thousands of iPhone photos taken of it every day (some of them very good).

Day 1,852 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day two years ago (day 1,122): Hay bails. Hay bails were rectangular back when I was a kid. They now have the proportions of soup cans. The march of technology.

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Tuesday June 17, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday June 24, 2014

BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – My annual out to Fenway Park with a group of clients and friends. The game vs. Minneapolis is irrelevant – this is an evening of real fun.

Day 1,705 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 610): 9 Main. Converted from color.

Tags Baseball, Boston

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Monday May 12, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – My itinerary today took my through Rockefeller Center twice. There are a lot of tourists here, mostly doing selfies in front of landmarks. It’s hard to imagine capturing an image here that hasn’t been done in precisely the same way many, many time before. But today I’ve tried despite the rain and high, bright sky.

Day 1,670 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day one year ago (day 1,305): Backlit house in Warren.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Rockefeller Center

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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

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Monday April 28, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday May 4, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the street (actually Lexington Avenue in the 40s) during the Manhattan golden hour. I’ve been pursuing the Chrysler Building for years. Here it is again. I found myself in Brooklyn this afternoon, at our daughter’s new apartment on Remsen Street. The view from her roof North.

Day 1,656 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 560}: the view from Dewey Lebouf.

Tags Chrysler Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York

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Tuesday March 11, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday March 17, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pretty mundane iPhone shot out my window. This sort of thing usually doesn’t work – I had to remove some reflections in Photoshop. Later in the day an image in severe back lighting with my Leica Monochrom.

Day 1,608 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year (day 1,243): Major meh.

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Monday March 10, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Home again. I walk everywhere here, combining exercise with a fairly efficient mode of transportation. I caught a classic view of the new World Trade Center handheld with my Leica Monochrom. This may be my favorite image of recent weeks.

Day 1,607 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day three years ago (day 511): Yellow, An unusual bit of color from me.

Tags Manhattan, New York, Night, Night phography