NEW YORK NEW YORK – Baby V gets wet. Big event today: our granddaughter, Victoria, was christened at St. Ignatius. Here are some images.
Day 1,591 of one photo every day for the rest of my life.
On this day one year ago: Dark.
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NEW YORK NEW YORK – A busy day with my cameras. We drove back to New York (from Warren) to get Maria to a doctor – she’s had a hacking cough for two weeks now. When I arrived I found that FedEx had delivered two packages, one with my 2x tele-extender for my Leica R 280mm lens (which I can use on my Leica M camera), one of the great long lenses of all time. I also received a 75mm Leica Summicron Asph., which it turns out is a marvelous lens. The first two frames below are Baby V (our granddaughter) taken with my Monochrom and the new 75mm. In the next image I’m experimenting with the quality of the out-of-focus portions of the image (so-called “bokeh”), which is creamy and lovely, a real accomplishment for such a highly corrected lens. Finally a couple of out my windows with the 280mm and 2x tele-extender set up on a tripod. Looks fine but this combination is really fussy in use.
Apologies for the gear talk. What’s more important here is that Baby is making the transition, at just short of two months old, to having a personality. You begin to get a bit of that in the series of pictures below, taken over about a five minutes period.
On this day last year: Lipstick building. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 5cm. Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar from 1945 – this lens rocks.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – This is more like it. Children and grandchild have arrived so the pace has picked up. Basil the Norwich Terrier seems to be in the middle of everything, looking for food in the Christmas wrappings.
On this day last year: Luke’s junkyard.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Multiple shots of Baby V with my iPhone. Plus out my window on a truly crappy day with my Leica Monochrom.
On this day last year: Grumpy Santa.
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Wednesday December 4, 2013
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We gave a dinner party for a young couple who we and our children are close to. The guests of honor called in sick at the last minute so we soldiered on with a family only party, sort of a Sunday family dinner, time shifted to today. I cooked a recipe that been running around the web for some time called the world’s best lasagna It’s good but I substituted my own frozen tomato sauce put up this summer out of the excesses of our garden, and of course made my own lasagna sheets. Baby V was in attendance at the dinner. Here she is:
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Sunday December 1, 2013
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Most Sunday evenings we have a “family dinner” with our children, and now grandchild. We generally try to cook but sometimes resort to takeout. This presented an opportunity to catch up with my imagery of Victoria Campbell, now six weeks old, and known to me now on these pages as “Baby V”. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and Luxochron lens.
On this day last year: Gate.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – More of Baby V. Shot with my Leica S2 and a speedlight.
On this day last year: Won’t these people ever leave Mustique? Selfie with the Monocrhom and Nocti.
