NEW YORK NEW YORK – A selfie taken in Dr. Lodge’s office. I’m here for a flu shot but in the process we found a deer tick so I get a blast of antibiotics (against Lyme disease) as well.
Flu shot
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
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Cocktails with our friends Doug and Judy Hamilton and Pilobolus, a dance company. All taken with my Leica Monochrom and Luxochron lens.
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WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect day for a lovely party put together by some neighbors. As you scroll down you’ll see an Aunt Alice shot – a lineup of people squinting into the setting sun. I object to these in principle but have decided to start taking them as a documentary record. Complain to my editor if you don’t like it. All images take with my Leica S2 and 70mm lens.
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On this day last year: Urban poetry. A construction site in Manhattan. Proof that color has a function, despite by bias toward black and white.
KENT CONNECTICUT – We had lunch with friends in Kent. I took my Leica S2, which is a very large camera – eccentrically so in an era of iPhones and professional photographers moving to mirrorless compacts. People didn’t seem to mind. Interestingly, even at web resolution you can see that the medium format S2 offers an advantage in three dimensionality and texture.
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WARREN CONNECTICUT – I didn’t feel like photography today so I procrastinated and ultimately found myself at the far end of the day here with my iPhone in my hand. Some 20 years ago I paid $3500 at an out of the way auction for a set of 18 Edward Curtis gravures from his North American Indians body of work done around 1905. (This is a lifetime best for me in terms of purchasing photographs.) Interestingly Curtis’s project, which ultimately included 1500 photographs, was commissioned by JP Morgan. By 1905 the Native American way of life was badly impaired so the images are often posed reenactments. Here’s a Nez-Perce man photographed by Curtis via my iPhone:
Nez-Perce man
On this day last year: sunlight redux. A continuation of a theme.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – This is not another cheap shot of Basil the Norfolk Terrier. It’s actually a picture of Francesca. She’s the out of focus one in the back with the top of her head cut off.
