Emphasizing his point.
The bandage? A shaving-related accident. 😉
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4
An inner glow.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitAnd an outer confidence.
In one year, he has gone from camera-shy to a natural.
Taken yesterday on a perfectly overcast day full of earthy colours and sombre skies.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Courage 1 and 2.
Inspiration, Leica 50mm Noctilux f/1, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitWhen at play.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
…and more so 48 hours later, after falling from the monkey bars and breaking her arm.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica Noctilux f/1.0 @ f/1.0.
Running.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, LFI Master Shot, Portrait, Teaching pointThe exhilaration of being, on a sunny autumn day.
This photo was chosen as a Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Master Shot.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
As you can see, the 75mm Summilux produces an extremely shallow depth of field at f/1.4. Nailing focus here – while he is running towards me – is tricky.
Further complicating things is the long focus throw of the 75/1.4, which is designed for precision and not for speed.
I rarely get this kind of shot with this lens, at this aperture… and to have caught him in mid-stride was the icing on the cake.
C – first day of wearing glasses.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitShe was self-conscious about her new glasses. She hates getting attention – any attention, whether good or bad. So, the glasses are bad.
She was even upset that we took her for an eye check-up, to verify what we suspected – that she wasn’t seeing properly.
But, she looked beautiful and I wanted to get a shot of her on her first day with them. However, life being life, offered just this moment.
It’s morning. We’re all headed for school.
All three are about to run. In a matter of seconds, C will trip, fall, and skin her knee. So this is the shot that survives for posterity.
Her injury, however, distracted her from her glasses.
Life, being life.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
T – A portrait.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitIt had been a while, so he graciously obliged.
Cinematic.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
The visit.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, LFI Master Shot, PortraitThings have changed.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
This photo was chosen as a Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Master Shot.
Window washer.
Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, Portrait, Teaching pointAnother image composed with the aid of a strong diagonal. To understand what I mean, please see my previous post here.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
The fairytale (and the kiss).
Favourite, Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitThe fairytale of childhood. A kiss, and happy ever after.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Cinderella’s slippers.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4Forgotten, on top of a newspaper box.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Upside down.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitAnd her laugh is infectious.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Ethereal glow.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PrintI’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.
K – A portrait.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitK, in a candid moment of anticipation.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Fenced.
Favourite, Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, LFI Master Shot, PortraitA little moment, gone in a second.
This photo was chosen as a Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Master Shot.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75 Summilux @ f/1.4.
The dance of play.
Inspiration, Leica 50mm Summicron f/2, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, PortraitThe way children move when they play – it’s like a beautiful dance.
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↑Leica M9 and Leica 50mm Summicron @ f/2.
↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
↑Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Tunnel commuting.
Inspiration, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, Photo ShootHe has tunnel vision, on his way to work.
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Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/1.4.
Jason and the Canadian Suit Drive.
Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4, Photo Shoot, PortraitJason and his colleagues are bearing (almost) all of themselves in midtown Toronto for the 2nd Annual Canadian Suit Drive.
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Both images taken with the Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f/2 (1st image) and f/1.4 (second image).
A bee, wildflowers, and fluffy things.
Inspiration, Konica Hexanon 60mm f/1.2, Leica 75mm Summilux (Canada 🇨🇦) f/1.4Along the path upon which I walked,
I saw a bee…
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…and wildflowers…
…and fluffy things upon which to make wishes…
If anybody knows what the proper name of these fluffy things are, please let me know. I tried looking them up online and I know they’re not from cottonwood trees, or from dandelions. I don’t think that they’re milkweed pods either. I’m actually stumped!
Images 1 and 3 were created with the Leica M9 and Leica 75mm Summilux @ f1/.4. Image 2 was created with the Leica M9 and Konica Hexanon 60mm @ f/1.2.
Prosophos 