NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another day shooting with my f.95 Noctilux lens. I’m using this lens mostly in daylight, so I keep a neutral density filter on it (in effect sunglasses) so I can shoot it wide open, which provides its special look. Today I did a still life at home with mirrors, one my favorites of this sort of thing in the past five years. I also shot a detail from our building, and a “lone person” in midtown.
Day 1,868 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
Still lifeFaux gothicLone person
On this day five years ago (day 41): Riverside Drive from the bottom.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I strapped my Carl Zeiss 16mm lens onto my Monochrome today. This sense is really wide and has major charisma. It allows me to make ok images of mundane subjects. More on lenses later this week.
Day 1,846 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
PedestriansTrash
On this day three years ago (day 750): Really close.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – On a walk in the East Village today I ran across a bit of fence that had painted strips on it so that if you line them up just right it made the face of a man. On the way home a subway artist sketched the pretty young woman sitting across from me. That it. October 22. In a nutshell.
Day 1,833 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – October 16, 2014 is the fifth anniversary of “One Photograph Every Day for the Rest of My Life.” 1,827 days. Without a miss. This is the first day of year six.
In documenting this long-term project online I’ve reached an audience that would have been impossible in a pre-digital era. I tweet images daily (the same ones that I post here). Woody’s Twitter feed. I passed a major milestone last week: more than 50,000 Twitter followers.
Needless to say I’ve learned a lot in five years. I’m working with an editor to explore threads looking to develop future shows. Over the next year I’ll begin selling prints of the most successful images.
On the first day of this project, October 16, 2009, I shot the Jean Dubuffet sculpture “Four Trees” at One Chase Manhattan Plaza. In retrospect the composition looks contrived (actually all compositions are contrived, aren’t they) but I’m stuck with this as image #1 forever. I went back and reviewed the 10/16/2009 shoot; the image that I posted was the only shot that I took of the Dubuffet (which is mad). Here’s a three frame stitch from the same day that I now find more interesting:
Day one
So let’s celebrate the anniversary with a gallery of what I found today on revisiting One Chase Manhattan Plaza (the Dubuffet is still there):
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still suffering. Got out to buy a take out lunch and got another bicycles image. Two days in a row for this kind of image. Scraping bottom.
Day 1,813 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
More Bicycles
On this day one year ago (day 1,448): Maria and Woody as Antony and Cleopatra (after Tiepolo).
NEW YORK NEW YORK – OMG, what a cold. This thing is torture. After all day in bed I went out to a movie with some friends and on the way grabbed a couple of images on 34th Street.
Day 1,812 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Day two of being sick as a dog. I managed to get out of the house today to the pharmacy to stock up on cold medication. My photo of the day was a quick shot of a news seller on Lexington Avenue, something that I ordinarily wouldn’t bother with but what else am I likely to see today?
Day 1,811 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
