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Food and wine Interior Landscape

Friday August 9, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I had busy day work-wise in Connecticut. Client confidentiality and my natural reticence preclude any discussion of what I’m doing, but I can say that there seems to be a lot of it. I had time for a couple of snapshots with my Fuji X100s. Before I leave the house or apartment I always pick up a camera take a test exposure or two to make sure that there is a memory card and that the battery is charged, and that the camera’s setting aren’t off somewhere in outer space. I delete most of these in editing, but occasionally a test shot is the best image for the day. Here you go with our dining room in Warren. Later in the evening we had dinner with our friends Barbara and Charlie Robinson. Charlie is a painter and for some reason he’s used the top of a wood burning stove in their kitchen as a palette.

Dining Room
Dining Room
Paint
Paint

Taken with my iPhone at a point when I was concerned that I might not have another picture for the day.

Backup imange

On this day one year ago: La Pizza Fresca, my favorite pizza joint in New York. It’s actually not a joint: ingredients are first rate and they make Neapolitan-stile thin crust pizza (the only style that I tolerate) in a wood fired oven. The wine list is remarkable. Here’s a picture of the key actor in the Pizza Fresca drama:

Pizza Fresca
Pizza Fresca
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Home Interior

Wednesday August 7, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent a couple of hours today messing around with the Fuji X100s. With a new camera there is always a process of getting it dialed in to my shooting style and practicing so that managing the controls becomes second nature. It’s also important to explore its limits: what’s the practical highest ISO and the lowest-hand held shutter speed, for example. Here’s a 12,500 iso shot in a dark hall in our apartment. The Fuji’s autofocus is reasonably good under these difficult low light circumstances (even much larger SLRs have a tendency to hunt a bit in near dark conditions). From the hall in near darkness with a secret selfie in the form of my shadow.

High ISO
High ISO

On this day last year: Perar 35. Experimenting with a tiny triplet 35mm lens called the Perar on my Leica M9. I ended up selling the lens – I really don’t have much use for lenses with a lot of “character”. Here it is on my M9 (which I subsequently traded for my Monochrom).

Perer 35
Perer 35
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Interior Still Life

Saturday July 27, 2013

WARREN CONNECTICUT – A bleak, poor light day in Warren. I caught this while lolling around the house with my iPhone in hand:

Door
Door

On this day one year ago: Look up redux.

Flare
Flare
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Interior

Tuesday July 16, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Up early for client meetings in Boston. A captured this at sunrise with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Asph. lens.

At home
At home

On this day one year ago: Venini vase. Interestingly, one year ago in the early morning light I was rushing out to get . . . a plane to Boston.

Venini
Venini
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Abstract Interior Landscape

Monday July 15, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – This in my “around the house” series with my iPhone.

Dryer
Dryer

On this day last year: A long thoughtful note on my 1000th post.

Trees
Trees
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Icon Interior Landscape

Thursday June 13, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went to a benefit tonight in Grand Central Terminal. This is still the best interior space in New York. Didn’t get much at the party but saw this on my way to the subway afterwards. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 1958 Dual Range Summicron lens.

Grand Central at night
Grand Central at night

On this day last year: purse dial.

Purse shot
Purse shot
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Interior

Friday May 10, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – This morning we visited Alexander and Laura’s new apartment. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 24mm Summilux lens.

New Apartment
New Apartment

On this day last year: ICP. Two frames stitched.

Plaza
Plaza
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