Category: Street

Wednesday April 20, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday April 26, 2011

SHANGHAI and BEIJING – Another travel day. The trip from Shanghai to Beijing is only two hours flying time but the disruption in the day, and the time spent in taxis and airports, is the enemy of my photo a day project. I managed a few captures in Hongqiao Airport and some images from a walk after dinner in Beijing.

This was taken with my Leica M9 and a 50mm Summilux lens:

Leica and 35mm Summilux lens. This is an apparently wealthy young Beijinger photographing his girlfriend – and assistant (who is out of sight) is holding a reflector to soften her shadows.

On this day one year ago: Hello “Hello Kitty”.

Tags China

Landscape Street Urban

Friday February 18, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Thursday February 24, 2011

NEW YORK NEW YORK – We went for a walk to Union Square where we did some shopping in the farmer’s market for meals over the weekend. A pedestrian image, captured with my Alpa TC, which demonstrates once again that great gear doesn’t guarantee great images. This is in contrast to the image from one year ago.

On this day one year ago: Vietnam Memorial. For me the most emotional image since I started this project. I was in Vietnam in the Marine Corps. Of my Basic School class of 317 Second Lieutenants I know of no one who finished a 13 month tour of duty – almost everyone was killed, seriously wounded or sent home after their third Purple Heart. Karl Marlantes’s novel Matterhorn captures the experience brilliantly – I highly recommend it. Many friends of mine are listed on this wall. Visiting it is almost unbearable. I’ve reproduced the picture at full web size.

Tags Food and wine, New York, Parks, Shopping

Landscape Out my window Street Urban

Tuesday February 15, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday February 21, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – So I find myself walking around New York with a battery in my inside coat pocket and a wire snaking down my sleeve. It connects to the digital back on my Alpa TC. It’s flexible and is highly compatible with my style of shooting but at some risk that I’ll be mistaken for a suicide bomber. I take a fair number of images like this at extreme angles, but this is one of my favorites.

Here’s another take on the sunrise out our dining room window with my Alpa Max:

On this day one year ago: Another cold day in Connecticut.

Tags Lexington Avenue, New York, Sunrise

Street

Thursday January 20, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Tuesday January 25, 2011

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I took a walk after a meeting on West 12th Street. St. Vincents Hospital, which recently closed, was the where may of the first casualties came. This is an ad hoc memorial in the block south of St. Vincents.

On this day one year ago: Sunrise in Boston.

Tags 9/11, Memorials, New York

Landscape Street Urban

Wednesday December 15, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Monday December 20, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Waldorf Astoria. Here’s a Wikipedia article on this deco landmark. The photograph is taken with my Leica M9 and my new 36mm Summilux II lens, with a neutral density filter to permit shooting at f 1.4 in daylight. More work on out of focus images. The overexposed area in the lower right is intentional – dramatic overexposure can result in a banding artifact with some digital cameras – I removed some banding in this image in Photoshop.

Home of the famous salad

On this day one year ago: Brooklyn Bridge

Tags Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York

Landscape Street Urban

Tuesday November 2, 2010
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Post author By Woody

Post date Friday November 5, 2010

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Another eventful day. Midday found me in midtown with my Leica M9 and a very wide lens, a 15mm Voitlander. This is similar to an image that I posted last week – Park Avenue – I’ve got quite a few of these that I haven’t posted.

Epic woman on Park Avenue

On November 2 last year we went to a book party for our friend Patrizia Chen at The Corner Bookstore: Patrizia tangos

Tags New York, Park Avenue

Landscape Street Urban

Wednesday October 13, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Wednesday October 13, 2010

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This evening I took a walk on West 12th Street. I arrived here just before sunset, catching the long shadows on a bar.

I’m writing this post on the evening of October 17 – the delay is a consequence of shooting a lot of images over the last few days (requiring a lot of time and effort to edit) and a power failure in Connecticut this weekend which left us in the dark and without computer power. One consequence of the delay is that the previous day’s image (October 12), an image that I don’t much care for, has been at the top of my blog for a long time. Memo to self: in the future I have to be much more disciplined about getting posts up following an image that I’m not proud of (the photo a day format insures that there will be some of these).

Anyway, the bar in the West Village shot with my Leica M9 and a 50 mm Summilux Asph. lens.

Tags Greenwich Village, New York, Sunset