Boy, would I hate to own stock in this business
Here’s a forlorn and much delayed communique from Sigma over their much delayed Sigma DP1 - the camera all street snappers are waiting for. After 8 months of silence there is no earthly reason to believe a word of this press release, which is comically […]
…. out of Catholicism ….
… but you cannot take the Catholic out of the boy.
Here’s our annual Christmas picture for 2007 - following the dictates of the Christmas Snap as set forth in this link.
Olympus 5050 digital, Vivitar 283 flashgun with Sto-Fen diffuser, Olympus IR remote, SHQ 3:2 setting at ISO 100
Agreed. Those are […]
The past is our present.
I simply cannot say it any better than I did a year ago.
Happy Thanksgiving.
A day at the vintage meet is always fun
Mention of my love of Ferraris in yesterday’s piece prompts me to post a few snaps from a vintage meet at Laguna Seca taken a few weeks back. All on the 5D with 50mm or 85mm lenses, processed in Aperture. ‘Processing’ is a bit overstated. […]
General Motors Building
Date: 1981
Place: 5th and Central Park South
Modus operandi: Walking about
Weather: Lovely
Time: 11 am
Gear: Leica M3, 35mm Summaron
Medium: Kodachrome 64
Me: Dazed and Confused
My age: 30
Say what you may of Detroit steel, few would dispute the assertion that the last time a Detroit product had class was made about, oh, 1949. That’s the problem […]
Madison Avenue
Tourneau Jewelers, Madison Avenue, New York. 1982. Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, Kodachrome 64.
Date: 1982
Place: Madison and 54th
Modus operandi: Street shooter in a suit
Weather: Cold and grey
Time: 2 pm
Gear: Leica M3, 35mm Summaron
Medium: Kodachrome 64
Me: I’m in love
My age: 31
Of New York’s grandest avenues, Park can claim to have the largest apartments. Fifth […]
A great photograph.
The collapse of the latest bubble on Wall Street prompts mention of what may be the finest picture ever taken of that great locale.
Now brace yourself, it’s by Paul Strand, a photographer who is vastly overrated.
This was taken shortly after Alfred Stieglitz had taken Strand aside and talked him out of his genuinely […]