WARREN CONNECTICUT – Snow drifts. Will this ever end.
Day 1,950 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 124): Madison Square and the original Shake Shack.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – There was a snowfall here yesterday but not enough for cross country skiing or snowshoeing so visually I did what I could with a little bit of snow, good light and some animal tracks.
Day 1,913 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 87): Morris Connecticut.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Back to shooting really wide (with my Carl Zeiss 16mm), this time with failing light on a grim day.
Day 1,905 of one photo a day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 809): Wheeler Wilderness Area.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – New Years Eve. We’re planning a quiet evening at home tonight, a relief given the high level of activity around here since before Christmas, so no pictures of drunken revelers today.
Every morning I load a card into my camera, format it, put a freshly charged battery in and then check it by taking a shot of my feet or whatever else is around to make sure that the camera’s settings are all inbounds. That way I know that I’m ready to shoot for the rest of the day. When I deviate from this routine I get into to trouble. Sometimes the random morning test shot its pretty good. Here’s the rug in my study here. Later in the day ruins somewhere near the town line between Morris and Warren, CT; there light was really dull so nothing of great interest here.
Day 1,903 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,173): Mack. I’ve rethought the crop on this one. I shot with a Rollei 2.8F for many years, then a Hasselblad 501. Both have square frames, so I often see things as squares. Two years ago I put this image up uncopped. Today I’ve cropped it square.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – This was a productive day of shooting around Warren and New Preston. Most of our family members have departed so it’s a bit quieter. Still shooting my Leica Monochrom and antique Carl Zeiss lens.
Day 1,902 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
December 30 has been a productive date for me so I’ve had trouble choosing a legacy photo. In the end I went with last year (day 1,537): Aleksandra .
BANTAM CONNECTICUT – I shot around an abandoned factory here today with my Carl Zeiss 1945 Sonnar lens. There’s a bit urgency to this: Bantam is enjoying a real revival; the abandoned factor is actually in an early state of restoration.
Day 1,900 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (804): Baby cloud. One of my favorites from 2011.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m continuing to shoot with my antique Carl Zeiss 50mm lens, which stopped down is excellent for landscape and wide open has a lovely signature for portraits or just about anything else. Paraphrasing myself from a few years back my research indicates that the optical cell (the optical workings of the lens) was produced at the Carl Zeiss works in Jena, Germany in December 1945. So it actually is a Zeiss Jena 5cm f1.5 Sonnar. The lens cell was subsequently fitted to a Leica screw mount body by an unknown third party, probably in Germany, the UK or US, for sale in the UK or US. The distance scale is denominated in feet and Zeiss itself didn’t make any lenses in Leica mounts as Leica was a competitor (Zeiss and Leica were the equivalent of Nikon and Canon today). I can see why it would have been worth the trouble to convert this lens to a Leica mount: it is actually the equivalent of an modern lens in most respects at f4 and beyond – its performance is simply breathtaking and as noted above it has a lovely signature.
Day 1,899 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,534): Cemetery, New Preston CT.
