I shot a lot this trip as evidenced by all of the square Hipsta photos preceding this post but the bulk of it was video on my 1DM4 and my iPhone or stills on my iPhone. My 1DsM3 spent much of the trip in its bag chilling out. I attribute that to a number of factors – this trip was not about doing as much as relaxing. You need a crowbar to get teens out of bed in the morning so we didn’t fight it. They could sleep late, we could kayak or run or read, and we would all do something together in the afternoon. That in itself led to being in less places which in turn led to less photos. I have also been to this area of Maine so many times that video and the Hipsta stills offered a way to see it new, so I gravitated toward that instead of feeling a need to work with the 1DsM3.

Afternoon on the links, Sedgewick, ME. July 7, 2011.

The one thing, the only thing, I photographed with the big camera was the early morning scene on Crockett Cove. Light, water, and mist too beautiful to turn my back on.

Sunrise, Crockett Cove, Deer Isle, ME. June 27, 2011. Click images to enlarge.

Sam's Island, Crockett Cove, Deer Isle, ME. June 27, 2011.

Writer Tom Beller gets a whiff of sesame from H&H Bagels. NY, NY. March, 2004.

Word from the New York Times tonight that H&H Bagels is closing its flagship store at 80th & Broadway. I photographed Tom Beller there in 2004 for Columbia Magazine. Tom had written a piece about his trial by bagel as the inventory manager at H&H, a brief stop on his way to full-time writing.

To be back in H&H on assignment was fun for as much it influenced Tom’s life, it had intersected mine. In the fall of ’85 I moved to New York City living at first at 71st & Broadway. Fresh out of college, with the world’s smallest apartment (one window and ~80 sq. ft.), no love life to speak of, my friend Chris and I would walk the Upper West Side. Chris grew up in Manhattan and could hardly go a block without seeing someone he knew. Me, I was learning the streets. With Chris’ guidance various haunts became our home. Big Nick’s Pizza Joint – a sign on the wall implored the “girls”, the waitresses, “to get the phone,” prompting us to do the same the whenever the phone rang. Cafe La Fortuna, where a crowd of heavy older men held forth with breast pockets filled with paper two to three inches thick. I liked that the fire extinguisher was a Potter-Roemer (I had never seen that before), the chocolate ices were amazing, and the inner courtyard a respite from the crush of the city.

Equal with those was H&H Bagels. It was just on the acceptable side of run down. Not dirty, just used, but also practical. It had one purpose and that was to get the bagels out.

Chris taught me that there was only one way to pick a bagel. It wasn’t by flavor or by favorite, it was solely by warmth. The hotter it was, the fresher it was, and that was what you got.

We would stumble in (an odd silly habit we had developed), any time of day or night, and go straight to the plexiglass case. Each kind of bagel had its own cubby, a square foot of space. The key was to press your hands against the plexi and be guided by the warmth and the glow and the love of a fresh out of the oven bagel. That was what you bought and once in hand you could step outside, break it open, watch the wisp of steam rise out of it, and dig in.

Outside H&H Bagels. March, 2004. Click images to enlarge.

I’ll go into depth in another post about the assignment – looking at the challenges created by shooting both stills and video, the logistical hurdles to working in New York City, and how we overcame some of the obstacles presented to us.

Still images:

Thomas Moore, KDL&M. Click images to enlarge.

Vincent Cappucci, Entwistle & Cappucci, and Robert Bickford, Kelley Drye.

John Kenney, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney.

Hon. Loretta A. Presak, Chief Judge US District Court, and Tom Kavaler, Cahill Gordon & Reindel.

Paul Tanico, CastleRock Management.

Jim Leitner, Falcon Management.

Edward and Sylvia Chin, White & Case.

Opening spread to 2010 Dean's Report.

Video:

Establishing shot showing two of the three buildings. Click images to enlarge.

The newest building, #300, seen on the far right above, has a new exterior and puts out a very different vibe from buildings #100 and #200.

Private entrance for University Support Services LLC.

USS LLC lobby interior.

Main entrance building #300.

Lobby, building #300.

Balcony view, building #300.

The other lobby entrances reflect the other buildings’ stature. You can imagine they were security checkpoints when the site was developing equipment for the army.

Building #200 lobby, exterior seen in the Shrubbery post.

I love the sense of scale in the background hallway. Two-point perspective as far as the eye can see. The three buildings are about 1000′ across and 400′at the deepest (as seen above.)

The interior spaces are similar – often large and open, reflective of a manufacturing past.

A combination of three frames to populate the image. I like the density.

Most likely a better image for the client. A bit more room to breathe, a sense of scale and adaptability.

Building #200 cafeteria.

My tilt/shift posts remain some of the most popular on Learning to See. The images above were shot with the Canon 24 TS-E II and the 17 TS-E.