Category: Street

Street

Monday June 3, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday June 11, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – More work on my rephotography class. Today we went to East 100th Street to rephotograph street scenes from Bruce Davidson’s seminal 1970 show at the Museum of Modern Art. Sample images from East 100th Street. This turned out to be difficult because the block that he shot this two-year project in has been thoroughly renovated. Here’s the best effort from the day for me. This is my shot of where 331 West would be today (see the original Davidson image below). Not my best effort – there are a number of obvious mistakes.

Here’s the original – which will give you a fair idea of how much Manhattan north of 96th Street has changed:

On this day one year ago: Oak tree.

Tags Harlem, Manhattan, New York

Landscape Street Urban

Thursday May 16, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Late this afternoon I got on the subway and headed for Elmhurst Queens. I’m joining a group of friends for dinner in a Taiwanese restaurant that’s so good that it has no English language sign. You really can’t tell what the name of this place is (unless it happens to be “Parking in the Rear”). Our organizer billed this as the “Best Taiwanese restaurant in North America”. Who would know? It might be. Just the right ambience of families eating off of formica tables. The food uniformly excellent, with the exception of stinky tofu, which to judge from its Wikipedia entry is a Taiwanese specialty. It really is stinky, smelling like a combination of your feet, days old garbage, and excrement.

Elmhurst has been a Taiwanese neighborhood for a long time – since the mid-50s. It’s safe, pleasant and clean. The sidewalks are crowded with Tiger Mom types with strollers. Pretty cool. And in the middle of it there is an old Dutch Reform church – this was the village of Newtown until the late 19th Century. Here are some pictures taken with my Leica Monochrom and my 1959 vintage Dual Range Summicron lens.

On this day last year: Faux Venini.

Tags New York, Queens

Street

Wednesday April 17, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday April 23, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK = It’s Alexander’s birthday. I didn’t get anything that I really liked at his celebration at Blue Smoke, but walking downtown to join him there (from the Apple store on 5th Avenue where I took a computer in for some warranty work) I caught this. The building is Tiffany, which appears to have developed a tattoo.

http://www.woodycampbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130414-M1000492-1298.jpg — Tiffany gets a tat

On this day last year: Yankees. Yankee stadium. That’s back when the Yankees were healthy. It’s sad to see how far they’ve declined in one year.

Tags Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

Landscape Street Urban

Friday March 29, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday April 4, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Here we are, on the street in Manhattan in bright early Spring light, with my new Leica M and a 21mm Super Elmar M lens. This is familiar territory working through the plusses and minuses of a new Camera.

Same lens (21mm) but three frames stitched.

On this day one year ago: Dinner at the Fours Seasons.

Tags Manhattan, Spring, Third Avenue

Landscape Street Urban

Friday March 22, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday March 30, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A landscape day. Brilliant early Spring light reinforce’s the city’s three dimensionality. Here’s the back of a newsstand taken with my Leica Monochrom and 21mm Super Elmar M lens. The idea was to express visual clutter but not chaos.

On this day last year: High Line. Shot with my Alpna and Phase One 80 meg. back.

Tags New York, Upper East Side, Urban

Food and wine Street

Tuesday February 12, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday February 19, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK Street food vendor in good light taken with my Leica Monochrom and 18mm Super Elmar lens.

On this day last year: Hopkins vineyard.

Tags Manhattan, Restaurant

Landscape Street

Thursday January 17, 2013

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday January 24, 2013

NEW YORK NEW YORK – Some barely ok images with my Leica S. I’m hard a work figuring out how to get the best results from this thing, which as I have mentioned before has replaced my Phase One 80 meg digital back and tech camera.

On this day last year: Belgique.

Tags Manhattan, New York