Tag: Connecticut

Sunday June 5, 2011

KENT CONNECTICUT – I felt that yesterday’s photograph of the wooden gothic church in Cornwall Bridge was a success, so I drove to Kent to shoot the gothic Congregational Church there. According to the Church’s website it was founded 1740 with the present building dates to 1849. They’ve fallen onto slightly hard times with 200 members and a bunch of peeling paint. But at least they have some attitude. According to the website the Kent Congregational Church was ” first to ordain an African-American pastor (1785), a woman (1853), an openly gay person (1972) and the first to affirm same-gender marriage equality (2005). ” “First” out of what universe isn’t clear. Anyway, here’s the picture, taken with my Alpa Max, a 60 meg Hasselblad digital back and a Schneider 48mm Digitar lens.

On this day one year ago: Rose.

Tags Church, Congregational Church, Connecticut, Kent

Landscape

Monday May 30, 2011 (Memorial Day)

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday June 5, 2011

NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – Here’s the New Preston Congregational Church captured in profile with my Alpa TC, 36mm Schneider lens and 60 meg Hasselblad digital back. I’ve been here before with a camera – a full frontal view is the subject of my post for November 7, 2009 – in one of the early shots in my ongoing project on Churches in Litchfield County.

On this day one year ago: Boating on Lake Waramaug in our 1956 Chris Craft.

Tags Church, Congregational Church, Connecticut, Litchfield County, New Preston

Garden Home Landscape

Saturday May 21, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday May 28, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Most of the bushes and shrubs around our Warren house flower at some point between April and July, and everything turns invitingly green during this period. From a photographic standpoint it’s a little bit of a distraction because I doubt that MOMA or Pace will be showing any dynamic new photographers specializing in flowering shrubs any time soon. But nonetheless this pretty conventional landscape is hard to resist, so I spent the weekend wandering around with my Alpa and Hasselblad digital back.

On this day one year ago: Walking back from lunch. The restaurant that I mentioned in this post last year closed with no notice under mysterious circumstances. They just put a sign out saying they were closed. They had received excellent reviews and were always packed. The rumor mill suggests that it was something to do with the owner’s divorce or a litigation involving employee tips. Too bad.

Tags Connecticut, Spring, Warren

Landscape

Sunday May 15, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday May 21, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – This was another in a seemingly endless string of rainy, foggy days. This is actually a continuation of the months of very heavy precipitation that we had during out long, hard winter. In reality the rain is a blessing. Steven Solomon’s book Water suggests that we’re on the verge of a global crisis where in many parts of the world the supply of clean water will not meet the needs of expanding population. The North Eastern United States is one of the regions of the world with a water surplus and enough rain to permit agriculture with little irrigation. Of course in Connecticut “agriculture” means digging massive stones out of the earth and fighting frost in May and October . . .

This is Lake Waramaug from the Hopkins Inn taken with my Leica M9 and the Bokeh King.

Earlier in the day I caught this with my M9 and a 135mm APO Telyt lens.

On this day last year: Trump Bar.

Tags Connecticut, Rain, Storm, Warren

Garden Landscape

Saturday May 14, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday May 20, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our wildflower cultivation in Connecticut seems to be limited to dandelions, at least this season. I set my Leica up on a tripod with my 24mm Summilux lens framing a field of dandelions from about 2 feet away to the horizon. I then took 7 exposures focusing at various distances, and combined the images in Helicon Focus, “focus stacking” software. The combined images are sharp from the close forground all of the way to the tree line 150 meters away.

On this day one year ago: Another pedestrian image. Raises the question of why am I doing this. There are good streaks and bad streaks.

Tags Connecticut, Spring, Warren

Garden Landscape

Sunday May 8, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday May 15, 2011

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I walked around our Warren property this morning with my Alpa TC, a 36mm Schneider lens and a 60 meg Hasselblad back. Finally, I mean finally its really spring here. The shadow of the tree in the first image has an anthropomorphic quality that I really like