Category Archives: Flora

Why photograph? Why use black and white? Why use color?

We photograph to explore our fascination with reality and all its remarkable, fleeting moments. …because we love light. …to discover how the moment may look when frozen in time. We photograph to remember. To tell a story. To illustrate. To explain. To say, “Look what I saw.” To learn more about “this or that.” To share. To show—as proof. We’re fascinated by, and […]

Friday’s flowers: The errant snapdragon seed…

… found a sweet spot in which to thrive; with gratitude to warmth, rain, and light (click photographs for larger view) then beaten (last night) by wind driven sand as fall delivered its first bitter cold Found within. Filled with bone dry flowers and memories; in dusty frames; the cedar chest left little space for future’s fresh mementos. Leica M Monochrom, 15 mm Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar […]

A day with the Leitz Apo—Macro—Elmarit—R 1:2.8 / 100 on the M (240)

(click photograph for larger view) Dust to dust. Wabi (a quality of austere and serene beauty expressing a mood of spiritual solitude recognized in Zen Buddhist philosophy.) Sabi (“The concept sabi carries not only the meaning ‘aged’—in the sense of ‘ripe with experience and insight’ as well as ‘infused with the patina that lends old things their beauty’—but […]

Friday’s Flora with Leitz Wetzlar Summilux—R 1:1.4 / 80 on Leica M (240)

The 80 mm ‘lux mounted on the M makes for a relatively large and heavy package (by M standards). The 80 mm Summilux—R weighs in at 694 gr compared to the 560 gr of the 75 Summilux—M.  The 80 R will let you focus down to a tad under 32″. The 75 M will actually get you […]

Friday’s flowers (with Leitz Canada Summicron-R 1:2 / 50 on Leica M)

Continuing to enjoy this relatively small, relatively light kit as it simply delivers extremely fine digital photographic files. All of the visual qualities I’ve come to expect from Leica range finder and SLR cameras and lenses appear on the computer screen with virtually no post processing. With each use of the R lenses I become more comfortable […]

Leitz Wetzlar Summilux-R 1:1.4 / 50 on Leica M: including a Friday Flower

Just like the 35 mm Summicron-R the Leitz Wetzlar Summilux-R 1:1.4 / 50 makes a beautiful, relatively small, well balanced kit, with a great feel, fit and finish, when mated to the Leica M(240). The 50 mm Summilux also provides a respectable 20″ close focus possibility along with its classic, creamy Summilux bokeh. The first few of […]