NEW YORK NEW YORK – I took my Leica Monochrom and Noctilux lens to a party at Antonio Monda’s with the following results. This thing is a handful.
Day 1,666 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1,301): Bathroom.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I walked through the Park in lovely light today for my annual eye doctor check up. All is well. I was functionally blind walking back through the park because my eyes had been dilated, but managed to get a few images with my Leica Monochrom.
Day 1,665 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 935): WTC 2.0.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – An uninspiring day for uninspiring pictures. These seemed like a couple of “more of the same” images as I processed them, but up on the web they look ok to me. Who knows. Some of the images that I have felt the least conviction about have turned out to be widely like (and vice versa for sure).
Day 1,660 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 199): Early morning through a 5″ Astro-Physics refracting telescope. Originally posted in color.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – More today on the theme Spring color in black and white. It’s hard not to respond to nature strutting its stuff in this urban environment. Doing it in black and white makes it a little less mundane. Taken with my f.95 Noctilux lens and an neutral density filter so I could shoot wide open. This gives me very narrow depth of field and the Nocti’s characteristic “bokeh” – the character of the out of focus parts of the image made by it.
Day 1,659 of one picture a day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 929): Maria reviews her notes.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Spring is arriving. This is a tough time of year to photograph cityscapes around here. The city is flamboyantly in bloom. The street crud from the winter has been completely cleaned up. It’s hard to take a picture that doesn’t look like a cut in a White Flower Farm catalogue. Tedious. The temptation to shoot big flowering trees is irresistible. I’m fight this by sticking with black and white and using selective focus. Here are some tulips from the Park Avenue mall.
Day 1,657 on one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 196): Chrysler Building with the UN Secretariat Building in the foreground. This was originally in color – I subsequently did a fairly aggressive black and white conversion, which I like much better.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – On the street (actually Lexington Avenue in the 40s) during the Manhattan golden hour. I’ve been pursuing the Chrysler Building for years. Here it is again. I found myself in Brooklyn this afternoon, at our daughter’s new apartment on Remsen Street. The view from her roof North.
Day 1,656 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 560}: the view from Dewey Lebouf.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Tonight we went to a wedding shower for some old friends. I shot mostly with my Leica Monochrom and 35mm Summichron lens – one of no fewer than 6 that I have in this focal length. Typical obsessive behavior by a Leica shooter.
Day 1,653 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year: Spring breaks out in color.
