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Saturday January 2, 2016

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I spent a few hours in the actual town of Warren today. In keeping with my New Years resolution, these images are made with a 1936 Carl Zeiss Jena 5 cm f1.5 Sonnar lens, which is interesting in that the optics are coated, making this one of the first coated lenses ever.

The first image is of of a presently-closed inn. It’s four frames stitched in Photoshop, which might run slightly counter the spirit of shooting with an antique, but whatever. I’m a wide shooter and as we will see the wide lenses from this era just aren’t very good. The grave marker is in the Warren town cemetery; I found it moving that someone is bothering to maintain (with a flag) a marker for a young soldier killed in the Civil War in 1862, and that his body found its way back home to Warren. Litchfield County was an hotbed of radical Abolitionists, so many young men volunteered for service and many died.

Day 2270 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Day 2269 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Out of Business Inn
Day 2269 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Grave marker

On this day four years ago (day 809): TaosSki Valley

Day 809 of one picture every day for the rest of my life
On the trail
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