NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Caught this walking back to my office from lunch with a friend at Alto.
Leica M9 with 24mm Summilux lens at f1.4
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I play poker with a group of old friends on a roughly quarterly basis. This was the night. No pictures of the game – what happens there stays there. But here’s the view from the terrace of our host.
Leica M9 with a 24mm Summilux lens. Two frames stitched together.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Late afternoon on East 56th Street – a reflection of the AT&T building off of the facade of the Trump Tower. Â Shot with my Leica M9 (it found its way back to me) and a 24mm Summilux.
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Thursday May 13, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Fabulous late afternoon light in midtown, with light reflected from buildings adding nuance. Â I’m shooting with my backup Leica, and M8.2, because I left my M9 at Gary and Diana’s the previous evening (symptomatic of wine consumption). Â I had a number of good images to choose among. Â This is Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram building – part of my effort to do a new take on iconic structures. Â I have an ongoing project on the Seagram building and the plaza formed by it and the Racquet and Tennis Club (McKim Mead and White) and Lever House to the northwest (the “Hello Kitty’s” come from there). Â Image taken with my M8.2 and a 90mm lens – three images stitched in Photoshop.
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Tuesday May 11, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – My meetings are at Park Avenue and 53rd Street so I managed to commune with my old friend Hello Kitty for a few minutes.  You will remember from previous posts that  Hello Kitty is Tom Sach’s statue in the sculpture garden at Lever House.  See  March 19 blog entry and April 20 blog entry.  There may be enough going on at Lever House to make a project out of it.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This is going to be a rough week in the photo-a-day department. Â My day job is invading this space. Â I’ve got round the clock meetings Tuesday through Friday and heavy preparation for them on Monday. Â I won’t have much time for posts, so they will be delayed for a few days. Â Mostly work dinners that I can’t photograph. Â I managed to walk a couple of blocks in the morning on Lexington Avenue I got this.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This afternoon I walked over to the Guggenheim Museum to take a look at the new restaurant there, The Wright (get it!). Â The Wright and its architect, Andre Kikoski, won best restaurant design at the James Beard Awards earlier this week. Â Link to James Beard Award winners. I ended up not photographing the restaurant, but caught a detail from the Church of the Heavenly Rest (occasionally referred to as “the church of the overly dressed” referring to its Fifth Avenue location)Â a block north of the museum. Â Image taken with a Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux f1.4 lens. Â I took more details of the Guggenheim – I’ve attached one of the images in a comment.
