the perfect bench

Zeiss 28mm f2.0 Distagon manual focus lens

Every New Yorker has their favorite bench. You know the one you seek out whenever you need a break on a sunny weekend morning… when you feel like relaxing and reading a good book… the one that ruins your day if you see that someone else beat you to it. This photo captures that idea perfectly. Taken in a tiny east-end park in the Sutton Place area with a Zeiss 28mm f2.0 Distagon manual focus lens wide open at f/2 and 1/5000.

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silent

zeiss 35mm f2 distagon lens

Black and white photo of silence… almost complete silence on a very cold winter evening with only a single duck stirring the crisp reflections in the water. The soft details in the distance make this photo a special one, as do the silver undertones throughout the image. Taken with a Zeiss 35mm f2 Distagon lens at f/5.6, 1/30 handheld, ISO 3200.

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bonsai

photos taken with Zeiss 100mm makro planar ZE mount lens for canon

Semi abstract image of the intricate and beautiful roots of a small bonsai tree. The colors in the foreground and background are gorgeous, as is the detail captured in the center of the image. I love shallow depth of field photos like this where the focus guides your eye to the subject of the image, and then the fall off to the surrounding out of focus areas allows your eye to explore the more abstract and artistic rendering of the lens. Taken with a Zeiss 100mm Makro Planar ZE mount lens for Canon.

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painter

zeiss 100mm f2 makro planar ze mount lens for canon

This is a close-up artistic composition of a painter’s workspace with a playful approach to depth of field. There is almost nothing in sharp focus in this image except for the dry paint swirls where a single ray of sunlight happened to be shining across my ‘canvas‘ that is this image. Taken with one of the most artistic lenses I own, the Carl Zeiss 100mm f2 Makro Planar ZE for Canon. Shot with the aperture wide open at f/2 to create the extremely shallow depth of focus.

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