Remembering Sheri today with a picture she would have liked.
Leica M-E
All Your Ducks, So Not in a Row
Legs Crossed
It was bound to happen to me sooner or later. A dark haired beauty in her black uniform. And a crow. Oh sure. Just keep shooting, fellow street photogs. Your Elliott Erwitt moment will come someday, too. Whether you’re looking for it to or not. 😉
Focus, you say? That would have been too much to ask I suppose.
Love Green
Free WiFi
The Counsel of Beauty
Life Imitates
Crush of Tourists
La Reina Blanca
Figure, Ground… Part Two
Figure, Ground… Part One
Wheels and Sneakers
Something About Men and Walls and Glass
Rocco’s Pizza, Wilshire Blvd
Waiting for the Bus
Lovely and Adorable
Untitled: Western Ave.
The Accessorized Male, Two Versions
Never saw a woman so alone
It’s only a lyric from the Doors’ classic LA Woman. Not saying the images don’t reflect my impressions based on the postures and expressions of the subjects of these photographs. But they’re only my creative projections. Don’t sue me, ladies!
Kind of Blue
Generations
The Scowl as a Fashion Accessory
She’s Just Not That Into You
Body Language
Still Fiercely a Man
It’s Chinatown, Jake…
Great article on LA’s Chinatown and the decline and changes that have occurred there in the last two decades. Read it here.
Ladrillo Rojo
Inked Up
Hollywood Jewels: Part 2
Hollywood Jewels: Part 1
Conspicuous Consumption
Fast glass in fading light…
Moments
Sunset Blvd
Dilapidated mansion on Sunset in Beverly Hills. Just like that one in the movie. Seemingly abandoned. But who knows? Maybe there’s a monkey playing the organ in there.
The Unconventional Sharing of a Hoodie
Public transportation, the lowly bus, doesn’t roll over the rarified pavement of Santa Monica’s Montana Avenue anywhere near as often as it does a mile or so south, on the more common asphalt of Wilshire Blvd. So these ladies were waiting a long time on a gloomy chilly late afternoon just a stone’s throw from the icy Pacific. July notwithstanding. Sooner or later people will do what they have to to keep warm. The not-poor things. 😉 Top photo is the last (or thereabouts) in the sequence.
Gorgeous
Walk of Fame
Right Lane Must Turn Right
Mother’s Touch
Liquid and Cool
Wheels and Lookouts
50’Cron, Last Light of Day
Whenever I remove the $4000 Leica 50mm 1.4 Summilux ASPH lens from my Leica M-E and mount the Leica 50mm 2.0 Summicron, 20 years or so old, made in Canada, that set me back just $475, I’m always blown away.
There often seems to be a color explosion on my M-E’s monitor. The lens is so incredibly capable. So sharp. So perfect. So much color and contrast. If you think you have to spend thousands to shoot the very best Leica glass, you’d be wrong.
The 50 Summicron lacks NOTHING in terms of the sharpness, color, and contrast that you find on the 50 ‘Lux. In some ways, it seems to exceed the ‘Lux.
With the Summiluxes you get a capability provided by the extra stop of light available and the fact that the performance of the lens at that 1.4 aperture is stellar. But that capability and the expense of making that lens does not mean that it’s a better lens than the Summicron. Leica says their 50’Crons are ‘without compromise’, implying what many know, that in order to create a lens that will perform at 1.4 like the Summiluxes perform, there will be some compromises.
This website is named for the 50’lux, but my heart belongs to my 50’cron. Here in iffy iffy light, all shot at f/2 from a moving car. Huh?
Upstairs Renovations
Not our upstairs, mind you. We don’t have an upstairs. We have Leica GEAR! 😉 Our friends are very proud of all the work they’ve done. Their home is about a half mile from the Pacific Ocean, which you can see from their back porch and even better from their roof. So that light is the real deal. These were taken in a rush as we were given a quick tour on the 4th of July. I’d like to have a couple of hours down there shooting the great detail work with all that light and the great Leica and Zeiss glass I’m lucky enough to own. Instead of an upstairs. 😉
Profile of Beauty
Did you press it?
TMI, bro.
If you’re going to smoke, really think about it…
The Bridge Behind Them
Sunday Color Picture Book
It’s Just a Smile Turned Upside Down
50'Lux 