Ready to ride
Yes, helmets are required these days, even in the West Village.
Leica M7 with 50mm Summicron-M on Kodak Portra 400
Two’s a perfect number
One of my favorite places in New York is St. Luke in the Fields on Hudson. Here are two chairs because two is a perfect number.
Leica M7 with 50mm Summicron-M on Kodak Portra 400
Who else?
I was surprised to see one of the few people in fashion I might actually recognize during NYFW S/S 2012.
Leica M7 with 50mm Summicron-M on Kodak Portra 400
Outside Milk
Outside Milk Studios for NYFW S/S 2012.
Leica M7 with 50mm Summicron-M on Kodak Portra 400
Resting before Rafa
This woman and her family—three sons and a husband—had come from Mexico to watch Rafael Nadal play in the U.S. Open final. On the 7 train to Flushing Meadows, they caught a few minutes of rest.
Leica M7, 50mm Summicron-M with Kodak Portra 400
She fell in love with the drummer
Okay, he’s not a drummer and she didn’t fall in love with him, but the girl in front of the stage is clearly enjoying Rhett Miller’s show with Starling Crush at le Poisson Rouge in New York a couple years ago as the light hits her face.
Canon EOS 20D processed in Nik Silver Efex Pro
After Thanksgiving
While we sat around watching the Jets game after Thanksgiving dinner was over, my friend’s niece decided that there was more fun to be had on the floor with Duke, the dog.
Leica M8 with 40mm Leica Summicron-C, processed in Nik Color Efex Pro
What Leica users look like: Anthony Suau
I was in lower Manhattan on 9/11 taking photos as people protested against the building of a mosque near Ground Zero. I noticed someone else shooting with a Leica and took his photograph. It turned out to be Anthony Suau, one of the best photojournalists in the world. You can see Suau’s photos from the same scene here. Here’s a short promotional video he did for Leica.
Leica M7 with 50mm Summicron-M on Ilford XP2
My year in photos: 2010
This was the first year of my life that I documented more with my photography than with my writing, especially if that whole picture = 1,000 words equation is true. Here are some of the things I saw in 2010, arranged, more or less, chronologically. For those of you who are curious about gear, I took most of the shots with a Leica M7, Leica M8, or Panasonic GF1. And I’m still waiting for my roll of Kodakchrome to be processed.
Flying the flag
This man was sporting two flags on 9/11 next to ground zero.
Leica M7 with 50mm Summicron-M on Ilford XP2
Somebody wants cake
In SoHo, a woman chats on her cell phone, worried that the children passing by may suddenly rush past her for the best chocolate cake in the world. Meanwhile, Spiderman waits to make his move.
Two years later
The woman on the right was protesting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the World Trade Center site on 9/11/2003. The man on the left grabbed her sign from her and tore it up just before I shot this photograph. The sign had said, “Love thy neighbor / STOP WAR.”