Author: imagist

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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph

I wonder,
“How and why
did I arrive at this point in time and space?”
Even here, “at home,”
when light and weather qualify as extraordinary,
I have to ask myself, “Where am I?”

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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph

At the liminal edge.
Between states.
Melt or freeze?
Give or take?
Arrive or depart?
End or begin.
Both and… either or…
…a fraction of a degree may decide
as you linger at the threshold of zero.

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Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph + 1 or 2 OUFRO

…I’ve lost track of time. Especially after cleaning up the 8″ snow fall;
with two foot drifts driven by 30 to 50 mile per hour winds.
Doesn’t look like much from a distance.
Though the aches in the muscles and joints, after five hours of cleanup, tell the tale.

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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph

Except for disassembly; and returns.
(additional Christmas photographs can be seen here)

Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph and 75 Summilux

Holiday tree in my office/studio/shop

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Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph

I’ve missed two days in the challenge “to post a new black and white photograph each day for five days.” So I’ve reinterpreted the challenge “to post five new black and white photographs over a period of ten days.” So here is [number 2 of 5] on day four.

The Gift of a Pear

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Leica M, 28 mm Summicron + OUFRO

A fellow photographer challenged me to post one black and white photograph each day for four or five days in a row.
This is the first for that challenge.

And while making this photograph another customer in this restaurant went to the host and told him that he was uncomfortable with my photographing his group. The host came to me… and told me this fact; very quietly and politely. I had not been photographing him or his group. I was doing some light measuring with the meter in the camera; and then photographing this bartender’s gesture.

I thanked the host for sharing. And thought to myself, “this same group has been doing selfies which had to include most of the bar, and its customers, in focus; did they care about those ‘others’ appearing in their selfies?” As a documentarian I find these “types” very depressing. Makes one think, “why even bother documenting the human condition?” It’s the type of thing which has driven at least one photographer/friend from pursing his love of the craft.

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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph

…barely awake
gazing out the bathroom’s South window
simply enjoying the lines
and tonal values
…contemplating possible renderings
of the scene

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ISO 640 at f:2 and 1/30th of a second

ISO 640 at f:11 and 1 second

Leica M8, 40 mm Summicron, with B+W 093 F-Pro IR Filter

Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph

while flowing through time and space
floating into winter
a seventieth time
the second time… here
always now… or never

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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asphst