A mystery photo I had overlooked until this morning. It was taken in the Sulaimanya Mosque on my Istanbul trip last year .
Why is the guide pointing? What is he telling the women? How do the older women manage to sit crosslegged on the floor? So many unanswered questions.
Leica Q2 photo.
I could not pass up the opportunity to take Smudge's portrait too.
This is Poppy studying in her room. Compared with her sister Scarlett's room, which was too untidy to show in a photograph, Poppy's room was surprisingly tidy.
I've converted the photo to monochrome because to me it looks much more atmospheric and characterful than the colour original.
Leica SL2 with Lumix Pro 16-35mm lens at 16mm.
A rather unpleasant winter's day today in Terrigal. I ventured out mid-afternoon with my Q3 43 hoping that it would start drizzling again and I could get some rain shots but the weather did not co-operate. I came home with just this one shot taken at the Surf Cafe. A lone customer looking at his phone with just a few birds for company.
Leica have released a series of Leica Looks on the Leica Fotos app. They can be downloaded onto the SL3, SL3-S, Q3 and Q3 43. This one is called Greg Williams-after an apparently well known British photographer-and I am very impressed. I don't do much monochrome and when I do I've always converted DNG (RAW) files in Silver Efex Pro until now. The tonality of this photo is better than I have ever manged to achieve with Silver Efex. To my mind it is very film like.
I will try the colour versions of Looks next.
iPhone13 photo
The wearer was another very affable passenger on my Douro cruise. He is a retired Corporate lawyer who specialised in mergers and acquisitions. From his long hair and pony tail and numerous tats you would never have guessed. He explained that he always wore a long sleeve shirt to business meetings.
I found him very knowledgeable and good company. and he never rode a Harley.
Leica Q3 43 photo.
On our Douro River cruise, back in June, one of our fellow passengers was an American, a rather eccentic and very affable retired doctor, who played a piano accordion aka a squeeze box. He played it well although the piano accordion is far from being my personal favorite musical instrument. He sat in a corner of the deck and played it for his own pleasure and was very willing to let me take his photo.
Sadly Marvel died last year from a genetic heart condition. It was way too early, she was only 5. I still miss her.
Now I have a new baby, Holly. Well not exactly a baby-more like a small(ish) bear. She's been part of our household for 11 months after we had adopted her from a sanctuary where she had been for 6 months. She's taken a long time to settle in but we are getting there. She still has a difficult relationship with the other cat in the house, Smudge, and she can still be very nervous. But she is big and she is beautiful.
Photo taken this morning with the Leica SL2 using the APO Summicron-SL 1:2/50 ASPH lens.
It's a cold, wet winter's afternoon here today and I've been doing 'housekeeping' on my Lightroom Photos library. I found this photo taken in March 2012 of grandaugher, Ellie and our beautiful Himalayan cat, Phoebe.
The photo has not previously seen the light of day. It was taken with my Leica X1 and I converted the original jpeg file to monochrome using Silver EFX Pro2 software.
Leica X1 photo
I was out in the very cold morning air with my now vintage Leica X1 to catch the sun just about to appear over the horizon at the Haven, Terrigal.
With the sea so calm conditions were ideal for spotting whales as they migrate north in their thousands to warmer waters. I saw a few blows yesterday morning but today it was too cold to linger and look for them.
Leica X1 photo
