NEW YORK NEW YORK – I caught a couple of angles looking up today. Here you go. As almost always, taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens.
Day 2007 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,276): Look up.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – The Villard House on Madison Avenue was built in the late 1880s by McKim Mead & White for the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It was subsequently owned by Random House and the Catholic archdiocese of New York; it’s now the Palace Hotel with the attached Emery Roth designed ugly monolith.
Day 1,993 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day one year ago (1,628): Amsterdam.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m deliriously happy being back in New York where there is some visual content to life. I wandered around the Second Avenue Subway construction today, where the work now seems to be focused on relocating the water, power, septic and other infrastructure displaced by the subway line.
Day 1,992 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 166): Grand Central Terminal.
NEW YORK NEW YOUR – Visually it’s a relief to be back here. I spent the day reveling in mundane New York details. But of course this isn’t a tropical paradise, and winter temperatures continue. I had trouble selecting the best image today so I’m posting four, with apologies for stressing your bandwidth.
Day 1,991 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 165): Emmet Gowan. A photograph of Gowan’s daughter, Nancy, in Danville. I posted this picture as March 28, 2010 but according to the file’s exif data it’s actually March 29. The camera date could have been wrong – I’m not certain. As this project has developed I’ve become more careful about setting the camera to the correct date and time because with 60,000 or so images so far in this project it’s hopeless to keep track of dates if the exif data in the files isn’t correct.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Our last day here before departing for Antigua for some relief from bad weather. Speaking of bad weather, here it is almost the last week in March and we’ve suffered another bout of snow. Still shooting with my Leica Monochrome but the courtyard image is 8 frames taken with my Leica T and a long lens and stitched.
Day 1,982 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,617): Goodnight moon.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I had some fun today. I rented a Phase One IQ260 Achromatic back. This is a 60 megapixel medium format back that is monochrome only and has very wide spectral response (which means that for non-scientific use it needs to be used with an IR-blocking filter in front of the lens). It came attached to a Phase One body with a 45mm moderate wide lens. The body and lens are made by Mamiya – competent but not my favorite. It took me an hour to sort the ergonomics (I’ve shot with this camera on a variety of occasions but not recently, and I’ve owned a Phase One back). I shot around Bryant Park, which is under construction at this point.
The Phase One back really is monochromatic. Resolution is remarkable – better than three frames stitched with my Leica Monochrom. The back over samples the rest of this system – in other words the resolution of the back shows up the shortcomings in the lens. Very interesting to work with. I produced some vey large files stitching two or three frames with the Phase One. Overall I prefer the look of my Leica files (and greatly prefer the lenses) – I’m certain though that if I spent some time with these files and Capture One (the Phase One software) that I could get good results. As it was most of my images had a slight plasticy feel – probably my ignorance in post processing.
Anyway, here you go.
By the way I’m posting this before I posted my image for March 18 because I’m traveling as I write this and had forgotten to upload an image for March 18 before I left my New York home base. I’ll post for March 18 when I get back to New York this coming weekend.
Day 1,981 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
Three years ago (day 886): Vegas
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Oddly, yesterday’s image of Papaya King was popular on Twitter. No accounting for taste. Maybe it just seems mundane to me as a result of familiarity. Another similar image today – when the city is covered with snow recycling gets backed up.
Day 1,967 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,602): Dive. Return from a dive in Turks.
