The International Leica Society Annual Meeting For 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 S007 The 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...
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...
English gardens inhabit our imagination: fine country estates, grand parks, historic manor houses adorned by formal floral beds, quaint & quirky homes with their kitchen gardens. In the first fine weeks of June 2017, we entered into this enchanting...
I packed Leica’s reissued 28mm Summaron f/5.6 as the sole companion to my M10 last summer during a two week expedition in the Peruvian Andes. Our goal was to climb Alpamayo, an almost perfect pyramid nestled 5947 m high in the Cordillera Blanca....
Photography can be a solitary pursuit. You know how you want the scene to look to tell your story. But it requires your single-minded attention to stay on track, while being alert for interesting side trips. Manual tools also need focused concentration...
THE ICE IS SUBTLE & ALLURING, SEDUCTIVE & DANGEROUS. ANTARCTICA, the frozen continent is a unique and extreme environment. Ice defines the terrestrial and marine limits of an area extending beyond 14 million km3 (5.4 million...
The Leica M-D (Type 262) was the first non-special edition digital Leica with no LCD. Taking a user back to the days of film, the Leica M-D forces a photographer to use exposure setting skills with no feedback to modify over- or under-exposure. The challenge...
In 1959 Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Che Guevara successfully overthrew the Batista government and took over in Havana. Back in Indiana, in 1959, my mother gave me my first camera. She challenged me to go out and make photographs that were “classic”....
