Category: Portrait

Wednesday February 5, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday February 11, 2014

ANTIGUA – Still here. Slogging away at relaxing on the beach. If you know of another daily photo shooter who does a better job with the tropics send me a link.

Day 1,574 of one picture a day for the rest of my life.

On this day last year: Friends.

Tags Antigua, Maria Campbell, Palm Trees, Sunset

Landscape Portrait

Sunday February 2, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday February 8, 2014

ENGLISH HARBOR ANTIGUA – Maria spent the morning on a couple of dives from here so I had a chance to walk around and absorb some tourist color at Nelson’s dockyard. This was the home of the British fleet in the Caribbean in the 18th century. Nice Georgian architecture and some good local faces. Here’s Maria’s scuba instructor and a guy who has just arrived with three teammates from having rowed here across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands in a specially built boat in 59 days. Quite a feat. I’m also providing a sample of Georgian buildings.

Day 1,571 of one photo every day for the rest of my life. I didn’t managed to get it down to one images today. What I really mean is at least one photo every day.

On this day four years ago: Triborough Bridge.

Tags Antigua

Family and friends Portrait

Friday January 10, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday January 16, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – I met Francesca, our daughter, at the Brasserie for breakfast and then spent the morning in the office. Here’s Francesca outside of the Brasserie and the Lava Lamp in my office, both taken with my Leica Monochrom and 75mm Summicron lens.

I could not decide which I preferred to I tweeted both this morning and I’ll let the responses to the tweets help me edit.

Day 1,547 of this ongoing project to take one picture every day for the rest of my life.

On this day one year ago: Zilch. Ugh. Some days it just doesn’t happen.

Tags Francesca

Family and friends Portrait

Saturday January 4, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We’ve taken advantage of being in New York on a weekend to go out to dinner with some friends to a local place offering French comfort food. The light’s very low but not bad so portraits all around. Earlier in the day harsh light on the street. Both with my Leica Monocrom and 75mm Summicron lens.

On this day last year: Grating.

Tags Food and wine, Meals

Family and friends Home Interior Out my window Portrait

Friday January 3, 2014

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday January 9, 2014

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A busy day with my cameras. We drove back to New York (from Warren) to get Maria to a doctor – she’s had a hacking cough for two weeks now. When I arrived I found that FedEx had delivered two packages, one with my 2x tele-extender for my Leica R 280mm lens (which I can use on my Leica M camera), one of the great long lenses of all time. I also received a 75mm Leica Summicron Asph., which it turns out is a marvelous lens. The first two frames below are Baby V (our granddaughter) taken with my Monochrom and the new 75mm. In the next image I’m experimenting with the quality of the out-of-focus portions of the image (so-called “bokeh”), which is creamy and lovely, a real accomplishment for such a highly corrected lens. Finally a couple of out my windows with the 280mm and 2x tele-extender set up on a tripod. Looks fine but this combination is really fussy in use.

Apologies for the gear talk. What’s more important here is that Baby is making the transition, at just short of two months old, to having a personality. You begin to get a bit of that in the series of pictures below, taken over about a five minutes period.

On this day last year: Lipstick building. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 5cm. Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar from 1945 – this lens rocks.

Tags Bridges, Manhattan, Victoria

Events and holidays Family and friends Portrait

Tuesday December 31, 2013 New Year’s Eve

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday January 6, 2014

SOUTH KENT, CONNECTICUT – We got together with some friends this evening at a Jason Wright’s house for a New Years Eve celebration. Most of the lighting was provided by halogen down lights, which make the art look good but aren’t great for photographing people (look at the pattern on the wall in the background below). I struggled a bit but finally ended with a nice images of John Novogrod, taken with my Leica Monochrom and Noctilux lens.

On this day last year: Junk Truck.

Tags Connecticut, New Years

Family and friends Portrait

Monday December 30, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday January 5, 2014

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We had some friends over for dinner. Here’s an image of Aleksandra made with my Leica Monochrom and Noctilux lens by candlelight.

On this day last year: Snowshoe. Taken with my Monochrom and Dual Range Summicron.

Tags Aleksandra, Connecticut, Dinner party, Warren