Tag: New Preston

Friday June 17, 2011

NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – I’ve developed a rule of thumb for landscape photography. There are rare moments when the light is absolutely magical. It may be the “golden hour” or the moment when the sun breaks through after a storm. Some days and places are better than others, but really great magic light moments are fairly rare. Here’s my rule of thumb: If you experience a magic light moment stop whatever you are doing and photograph whatever is at hand with whatever equipment you have available. Even if the subject is mundane the light transforms it – perhaps turning it into a serious statement.

After endless rain we finally had a few moments of late afternoon sun creating a brief magic moment. Fortunately I had my Alpa TC and 60 meg back in the car and managed to find a place to stop in New Preston.

On this day last year: Seagrams Building.

Tags Connecticut, New Preston

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

Landscape Monuments

Monday March 28, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday April 3, 2011

NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – Driving back from a real estate closing I stopped at the cemetery an New Preston. The Civil War had profound impact on these small New England towns and villages – many have memorials to the war dead. Taken with my Alpa TC, a 36mm Scheider APO and 60 meg Hasselblad back.

On this day last year: Emmet Gowin photograph.

Emmet Gowin, Nancy, Granville Virginia, 1969

Tags Cemetaries, Connecticut, New Preston

Landscape Religion Small town

Sunday February 13, 2011

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday February 20, 2011

NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – A really gray day. New Preston is a small village near us just off of Route 202. Politically it’s part of Washington Connecticut. The Congregational parish has two church buildings: a traditional neo-classical wooden structure where the congregation meets for most of the year, and a stone church where they meet in August. New Preston doesn’t have a green so both buildings are sited awkwardly – the stone church s literally 6 feet from the edge of the road. Taken with my Alpa TC.

On this day one year ago: a gray icy day in Warren Connecticut. This seems to be a theme this time of year.

Tags New Preston, Snow, Winter

Landscape Small town

Sunday November 28, 2010
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Post author By Woody

Post date Tuesday November 30, 2010

NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – From its architecture this building (which houses youth activities for Washington CT) looks like a defrocked church – a church with its steeple removed. It’s quite close to the New Preston Congregational Church so I doubt that it was built on this spot – it was probably moved here after it was decommissioned. I’ve found no references to it on line – I’ll have to carry out more detailed research on the ground. Taken with my Leica M9 and a 35mm Summilux FLE lens. Two frames stitched.

Harry O Erickson Pavilion Hall, New Preston Connecticut

On this date last year: Birches in early winter.

Tags Connecticut, New Preston

Landscape

Sunday October 10, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday October 10, 2010

NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – While Maria is shopping at a local boutique, J. Seitz, I wandered around the back of the building to shoot the waterfall over the dam that is part of the system that impounds Lake Waramaug.