NEW YORK NEW YORK – Some day. I got up bizarrely early to go to a meeting that started at 7:00 AM and actually ended at 9:30 PM. I decided to walk to it, despite the bitter cold, because walking would be my only chance at exercise, and walking presented the possibility of getting my daily photo done in the dark. I went to my office first and saw a nice dawn breaking across Manhattan so I captured it, fulfilling my daily photo obligation early. On the short walk from the meeting to its continuation at dinner at the Four Seasons I managed to find a new (to me) angle on the rat at Lever House. Not great but an accomplishment under the circumstances.
Day 1,580 without a break of at least one photo a day every day for the rest of my life.
Chrysler at dawn
On this day last year: Fog. Yeah, another “fog” but this one is really elegant. A favorite.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Sometimes shooting through the window of a glass curtain wall building works. It takes a little bit of technique to avoid reflections and dirty spots on the glass but sometimes it can be done. Here’s a twofer: the Lipstick Building and the Chrysler Building. This is out the window of my office. Three frames stitched with my Leica Monchrom and 75mm Summicron lens. It’s an accident that I’ve posted two tall skinny pictures within a week of each other.
Day 1,545 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
NEW YORK NEW YORK and NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT – I went by train up to New Haven today to visit the Yale Art Gallery photo collection. We spent a delightful hour or two reviewing the work of Robert Adams.
This with my Leica Monchrom and Luxochron lens in Grand Central Terminal. A very common view but uncommon light – my best to date in GCT. Later in the day on New Haven Green.
Grand Central TerminalNew Haven Green
On this day last year: Nespresso Store. One my favorites from last year.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Some new experiments. My Leica Monochrom produces very high resolution. Most of the images that I post here have the capacity to be printed at 24 x 36 inches with ease. What if I crop aggressively: if I’m only interested in web resolution I can crop to very small areas. Here’s an example from today:
Free bird
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Today I’m documenting the most elaborate gift that we have ever received. We have a friend of very long standing who is a London-based architect. For our wedding anniversary he painted in miniature a copy of Tiepolo’s Anthony and Cleopatra with Maria’s face on Cleopatra and mine on Anthony. No kidding. And then he built an elaborate frame to house it. Tiepolo is one of my big three Italian artists of all time. The image Guill selected is lush and voluptuous, full of Tiepolo excesses. Operatic. Just like Maria and me. Wow. (Let’s leave aside the fact that things ended badly for Anthony and Cleopatra.) Here it is in living black and white shot with my Leica S2 medium format camera and a 120mm macro lens from a tripod (I got serious with this one). Actually two frames stitched to maximize detail.
Tiepolo
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We went to the opening of the New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall tonight – we saw Captain Phillips which is a sensation. Dinner before was at the Leopard, a long-time New York restaurant that has fairly recently located itself in the former Cafe des Artistes space. Still a remarkable place to enjoy a meal. Taken with my Leica Moncochrom and Luxochron lens. Two frames stitched.
Former Cafe des Artistes
