NEW YORK NEW YORK – We maintain a tradition of getting the family together for dinner on Sunday for a . . . Sunday family dinner. This evening we caught up with Laura and Alexander and of course Baby V, who is featured here today. Yes I know that I’ve promised no cute dogs and kids on this site, but we’ll all just have to live with an occasional exception. The elephant is a gift from India.
Day 1,942 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m continuing to shoot with my antique Carl Zeiss 50mm lens, which stopped down is excellent for landscape and wide open has a lovely signature for portraits or just about anything else. Paraphrasing myself from a few years back my research indicates that the optical cell (the optical workings of the lens) was produced at the Carl Zeiss works in Jena, Germany in December 1945. So it actually is a Zeiss Jena 5cm f1.5 Sonnar. The lens cell was subsequently fitted to a Leica screw mount body by an unknown third party, probably in Germany, the UK or US, for sale in the UK or US. The distance scale is denominated in feet and Zeiss itself didn’t make any lenses in Leica mounts as Leica was a competitor (Zeiss and Leica were the equivalent of Nikon and Canon today). I can see why it would have been worth the trouble to convert this lens to a Leica mount: it is actually the equivalent of an modern lens in most respects at f4 and beyond – its performance is simply breathtaking and as noted above it has a lovely signature.
Day 1,899 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Christmas day. We’re here with our children and grandchild, Baby V, who is now 14 months old. She’s walking and sort of talking. Today I’m shooting with my 1945 Carl Zeiss Sonar lens.
Day 1,897 of one photograph a day for the rest of my life.
Go ahead and kiss my ringBasil lurksGo ahead, kiss my ring
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We stayed in New York this weekend to attend Baby Victoria’s first birthday party. This has been a week of portentious anniversaries. I have a rule against posting cute kids but today will be an exception.
Day 1,829 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
On this day one year ago (day 1,464): Johnny Rocket. The only image that I shot on October 18, 2013.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – It’s Easter and we have a house full of people here. I’m slight grumpy because I’m the cook and folks seem more interested in chatting than helping in the kitchen. Here’s an update on Baby V, our granddaughter.
Day 1,648 of one picture every day for the rest of my life.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Tax day. This is ordinarily a pretty grim day. “The ides of April?” But today was actually visually interesting. A trip to our daughter’s office provided a new angle on the local cityscape; a new lens provided a fairly energetic rainy cityscape out my window, and I got some decent images of our granddaughter.
Day 1,643 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
Baby VFrancesca’s conference roomOut my window
On this day one year ago (day 1,278): Building. Obscured by a tree.
