NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We had violent thunderstorms today. As it was starting to clear I took my AlpA TC, a 72mm Schneider XL and a light tripod to the roof of our building, and then to the Central Park Reservoir. The lurid colors are real. The fact that the landscape is soaking wet enhances colors in the brilliant light that followed the storm. The first color images is stitched from two separate images; the second color imagefrom five separate images.
On this day last year: Starbuck’s.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I had a productive day walking from my office to our apartment via Central Park, so I’m posting multiple images; all taken with my Leica M9. Here is a sunbather on Sherman’s statue in the Plaza taken with my Leica and a 90mm lens.
The Metropolitan Club. Founded by JP Morgan for his steel baron clients who couldn’t get into the Union Club. Captures with my Leica and a 90mm lens.
A lazy summer afternoon shot in Central Park with my Leica and a 90mm lens.
Finally, the Metropolitan Museum. Three frames stitched shot with my Leica and a 35mm Summilux lens.
On this day last year: Party at Gus’s.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had a break in a long stretch of rainy weather and I had a break in a long stretch of around the clock meetings, so I walked up to the Conservatory Garden at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue. I’ve been here before with a camera. Gardens in bloom in the spring, while appealing to a photographer, haven’t really brought me to any artistic insights – I should probably stop doing this. But anyway, here’s the view of construction at Mount Sinai Medical Center from the Conservatory Garden taken with my Leica M9 and a 35mm Summicron v. IV lens (the Bokeh King).
On this day last year: great midtown light on the Seagrams Building.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Still looking for Spring I took a walk today in the Conservatory Garden in Central Park. I actually found Spring here. A quote from Wikipedia:
The Conservatory Garden is the only formal garden in Central Park, New York City. Comprising 6 acres (24,000 m2), it takes its name from a conservatory that stood on the site from 1898 to 1934.,,The park’s head gardener used the glasshouses to harden hardwood cuttings for the park’s plantings. After the conservatory was torn down, the garden was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, landscape architect for Robert Moses, with planting plans by M. Betty Sprout;[2] constructed and planted by WPA workers, it was opened to the public in 1937. . . . After the Second World War the garden had become neglected, and by the 1970s a wasteland. It was restored and partially replanted under the direction of horticulturist and urban landscape designer Lynden Miller, to reopen in June 1987. . . . The high-style mixed planting was the first to bring estate garden style to urban parks, part of the general renewal of Central Park under Elizabeth Barlow Rogers of the Central Park Conservancy.
This taken with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens. I’ve used a crop of it for my banner.
On this day last year: Hydrangias.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – A bleak day in Manhattan. I walked around Central Park in search of something that would stir my imagination. I captured this view of the Central Park Reservoir with Alpa TC with 36mm APO Schneider lens.
On this day one year ago: a very wide view of Times Square at night.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent the morning in a snow-covered Central Park. A few interesting images. Here’s a view of the El Dorado, one of three large building on Central Park West built by Emory Roth (the others are the Beresford and the San Remo). This is a common angle on the building, across the Central Park Reservoir. Two frames taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60, with a 300 mm lens on a monopod. This is another example of how well this camera’s files convert to black and white.
On this day one year ago: From Bryant Park.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I walked back through Central Park from lunch on 59th Street with a friend. It was absolutely late-July frying hot. Here’s The Mall (sometimes called Poets’ Walk).
Leica M9 with 28mm Summicron lens.