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-Woody's Picks Landscape

Sunday November 21, 2010

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WARREN CONNECTICUT – You’ve noticed by now that I’m experimenting with my superwide lens at extreme angles and extreme speeds. So far in this series the extreme angles have been in New York (and for that matter in the dark). Today I pushed forward to extreme angles in the countryside in daylight. Still interesting stuff.

Here’s one of a number of similar shots this afternoon from our woods. Note that the leaves are finally off of the trees so I’ve been relieved of the curse of beautiful fall foliage.

Monumental Oak

On this day last year: Washington Connecticut Congregational Church detail.

Congregational Meeting House, Washington CT
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Food and wine Landscape

Saturday November 20, 2010

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LITCHFIELD CONNECTICUT – A farm stand next to my regular hardware store. Still shooting very wide with the digital Leica.

Bunnell Farm stand Litchfield Connecticut

On this day one year ago: Subway entrance.

Citicorp Center
Citicorp Center
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-Woody's Picks Landscape Transportation

Wednesday November 17, 2010

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NEW LONDON CONNECTICUT VICINITY – So here I am shooting out of windows again, but this time on the Acela train from Boston to New York. This is through the glass with my extreme wide lens shooting one second or so exposures. This is interesting – the clouds are sharp because their relative motion is small – but the foreground is totally lost to motion blur. The tint in the train window gives a slight ghoulish quality to the light. I experimented with these for the four hour ride.

From the Acela at high speed

From the Acela at high speed

From the Acela at high speed

On this day one year ago: Dorchester Avenue, Boston.

Summer Street Boston
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Landscape Religion Small town

Sunday November 14, 2010

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WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT – I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to photograph the Washington Connecticut Congregational Church. There is a large tree in front of it – very close, actually – so it’s hard to get an angle on it even with a very wide lens and a shift capability. I decided to shoot it through the tree once the leaves were off. I did some details of it last year – here’s my entry from November 29, 2010 which includes some historical narrative about the structure. Anyway, this is with my Hasselblad H3d-39:

Washington Connecticut Congregational Church
November 14, 2010

This is the image from last year:

Congregational Meeting House, Washington CT

On this day one year ago: Construction site. In terms of star ratings this is the least popular image ever on this site.

House construction site
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Landscape Small town

Saturday November 6, 2010

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NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – Here we are back in New Milford, which among it’s other issues, seems to have been swarmed by strip mall developers. But at least there’s handicapped parking. This image is with my 12mm Voigtlander lens on my Leica M9. A 12 mm full frame lens is very wide indeed – let’s not get bogged down in image quality here because it’s a miracle that it forms an image at all. I use a piece of software called Cornerfix that fixes the color shifts and other weirdness that would otherwise be caused by shooting this lens on a digital sensor. No viewfinder is needed. Assume that the frame includes everything.

Handicapped in New Milford

On this date last year I shot the largest images that I’ve posted here: an infra red four frame stitch of 30 Rock

30 Rock

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Landscape

Saturday October 30, 2010

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WARREN, CONNECTICUT – We were plagued by another beautiful autumn day. Very hard to make good on my “no more fall foliage” pledge, but I caught a break midday, visiting the construction site of a house being built by my friend Doug Hamilton, who has a serious serial housebuilding habit. The Mustique construction gallery to the right is the result of a multi-year project documenting a house under construction by Doug in Mustique – he’s doing it again in Connecticut. Leica M9 with 15mm Voigtlander lens.

Construction site, Warren Connecticut

On this date one year ago: Chrysler Building at night

The Chrysler Building
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Landscape

Friday October 29, 2010

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WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I’ve been meaning to try a night image of our house in Connecticut for some time. Here’s a try at it under tough conditions – a high wind made working on a tripod challenging. This is stitched from two frames. Leica M9 with a 90mm Elmarit lens.

Connecticut autumn night

On this date one year ago: Fifth Avenue Apple Store

The Fifth Avenue Apple Store
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