As a Leica user, you may have already found, as I have, that a love for photography is perfectly matched with a passion for travel.I recently completed my first single trip circumnavigation of the globe as part of a project we call Red Dot Blue Dot. Including...
Haus Friedwart, the Wetzlar home built by Ernst Leitz II, is well known to students of Leica history. It stands on the hill above the old factory in Wetzlar, known as the Kalsmunt, at 4 Lauferdorfer Weg, with a commanding view of the factory, Wetzlar...
It's not often you hear the phrase “Wait or mate?” To some it has no meaning and to others it brings a smile. In the last issue, Bill Rosaur brought us stunning images and a great review of the Leica Wide Angle Tri-Elmar lens - the WATE. In this...
Reflections are ever present in our daily lives - in our morning mirrors, the large plate glass panes of urban buildings, on the shiny metal surfaces of our automobiles. When we glimpse reflections, we see our world bounced back, yet transformed, upside...
My trip started with a delay from the Charlotte airport to New York. The problem was compounded because my once-a-day flight to Iceland was leaving before I was supposed to land. Ultimately, from my New York gate, I ran to a bus, rode across the tarmac...
Shooting Norway’s landscape with the mm Summilux-M. Norway’s landscape is famous for giant fjords, rows of mountains, and vast tundra wilderness. In this trip I will be trying to capture all those essences with my Leica M-E and standard...
The International Leica Society Annual MeetingFor any Leica user, Leica enthusiast, or Leica history buff, the Wetzlar meeting was precisely why we belong to the International Leica Society. It is the culmination of why so many people are lifelong...
Nighttime Photography With the Leica S007The grey-green streams above slowly snaked from the glacial mountain across our small knoll overlooking the Jökulsárlón Lake at one o’clock in the morning. I had tightened the tripod legs and closed the grips...
“Do you want to go to India?”“What are you talking about, dad?” I half-laughed through the phone.My father, a recently-ordained pastor, eagerly explained that he’d been invited to India to speak at a few pastors' conferences being organized...
I originally wrote this article in May 2014, the day after visiting the 911 Memorial while still under construction. The museum is now finished, and security is a bit different than it was then.We waited in line, checking pockets, removing belts and placing...
