NEW YORK NEW YORK – A pedestrian “look up” and some pedestrian pedestrians. I’m cycling through lens choices for my Leica Monochrom, preparing myself mentally for a trip to Basque country in Spain in a week or so.
Day 1,749 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 653): Dhow, Lamu. Taken with my Phase One IQ 180 (subsequently sold because I get better results overall with my Leica Monochrom).
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I spent some time today exploring an old haunt – the plaza in front of the Seagrams Building. I never tire of this.
Day 1,747 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,,443): Peter.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I’m flying to London this evening. As a travel day this is rare as I actually had a chance to capture some images as I went about my day – travel days are usually a disaster for me from a photographic standpoint. Here are a few from close to home.
Day 1,737 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 276): Arethusa Farm/
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Meetings brought me to midtown and Park Avenue so I explored some familiar subjects with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Luxochron lens.
Day 1,736 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (1,006): Beantown rocks.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back to shooting with my regular lens selection. I had some time free this afternoon so I trekked down to the Lower East Side for lunch and Katz’s delicatessen and some photo opportunities.
Day 1,733 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 637): Moonrise.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Still shooting really, really wide with my 15mm Zeiss lens on my Leica Monochrom. Today I was in Union Square shopping in the greenmarket for groceries for a dinner party. The picture below was the best of a poor lot for the day. Another square crop (planned that way in shooting) to get rid of a too-large foreground. It looks “meh” to me but has actually been quite popular on my Twitter feed. I guess I got it wrong on the editing end.
Day 1,730 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1,000): District of Columbia.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More familiar territory with the ultra wide 15mm Zeiss lens on my Leica MM. This lens continues to interest me, but I am looking forward to the end of the week that I’ve committed to keep it on my camera. I reshot Citicorp this morning and 1185 Park Avenue this afternoon. The lens let me shoot all of 1185 without stitching (a reshoot of June 30, 2014). I had to point up a bit, however, to get the top of the building, which meant that I had to correct sharply converging vertical lines in Photoshop. The resulting “stretching” of the top of the image magnified the Zeiss 15’s very slight “mustache” distortion to the point where it is visible, especially in the upper right corner of the image. I really have to shoot level with this lens.
Day 1,729 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,364): Venice Biennale.
