“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.“
– Jack Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011).
Chalk messages adorn the walls and pavement of Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall – an impromptu memorial in honour of Jack Layton.
If you wish to read more about Mr. Layton, see here.
RIP, dear Jack.
Both images taken with the Leica M9 and Leica 35mm Summarit.
There are certain experiences in life that stay with you. Most of the time, it’s the key ones that leave an imprint, but more often than not, the little moments – barely noticed at the time – are the ones that leave the indelible marks.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
Leaving an imprint in the sand, to disappear in the ebb-and-flow.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
Late August. Summer continues to slip away, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their faces.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
I mentioned on a previous post how the change of light of the waning summer pulls me back to film, and here are two resultant images.
The thermometer reads the same temperatures (more or less), and the midday light seems as bright, but the shorter days and the chill in the evening air signals an impending change.
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Leica M2 and Voigtländer Nokton 40mm @ f/1.4 [top] and @ f/4 [bottom].
Forgotten, on top of a newspaper box.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Against the soft glow of the sunset. Would have been a better image if I’d left more space to his right.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
And her laugh is infectious.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
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↑Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
↑Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
↑Leica M9 and Leica 35mm Summarit @ f/2.5.
I’ve passed through this path countless times, but every time I stop to look, I see the most beautiful things hidden in the shadows, occasionally illuminated by stray shafts of sunlight.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75 Summilux @ f/1.4.
As the summer days get shorter, I reach for a roll of film (something about the shift in the light). A slow process, shooting film, but very good for the photographic soul.
This photo was chosen as a Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Master Shot.
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Leica M2 and Voigtländer Nokton 40mm @ f/1.4.
K, in a candid moment of anticipation.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
…is the path she takes.
She is younger than she thinks, and yet is wiser than she knows.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
Love, exhilaration, happiness.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
Experiencing the lightness of being, perched up high.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
The warm glow of the waning light, a steady breeze… fluid happiness.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
Shooting against the light of the sunset and creating a little lens flare… invoking summer nostalgia.
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Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
This photo was chosen as a Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Master Shot.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summarit @ f/2.5.
Prosophos 